Networking

People have always done this, since we are intensely social beings - but not until the Computer appeared (like yesterday) did it became a indispensable part of the American vocabulary. If you are not networking (and networking aggressively) you might as well be dead!

I still do it, even though I am 80, live in Costa Rica, and will never work again. I no longer have a sex life, but my affairs on the Internet, are almost as satisfying.

For example, I am learning Cloud Native Java. Java is a programming language that swept through the software world in the Nineties, like a wildfire! It was invented by Sun Microsystems, who wanted to kick Microsoft off its throne. But didn't get the job done. It was done in, instead. The infighting in the computer world, boys and girls - can be lethal!

Sun was sold to Oracle, who did not do very good job of taking care of Java. It didn't do a bad job, but its heart was not in it. To keep ahead in the Software world - you gotta be committed to the job!

Such people did show up (bugle calls here!) and invented powerful new tools and services to save Java from its grave.

Java is back kicking ass again.