The BileBlog

Jealous of all the attention and fan mail that Marc Fleury received as a result of his bileblog interview, the (in)famous Rickard Öberg decided to come forth and offer himself up for an equally candid I’ll-show-you-mine-if-you-show-me-yours interview. So without further ado, here is the transcript:

BB: Before we begin, and to help those people who have been living under a rock for the past few years, can you tell us a bit about yourself?
RÖ: I started out java development back in school where I roomed with Karl Avedal. He went on to become rich and famous by getting involved with the Orion application server for a while. I went on to become famous by doing various Java things in public. Over the years, I’ve started and joined a number of projects, but always gotten out at just the right time.
BB: The right time? Can you elaborate?
RÖ: I mean, just when the project becomes successful and has users. If that doesn’t happen then I’m generally happy to keep contributing. Unless of course I get bored, that happens quite often too. Sometimes I have strange idealistic reasons for leaving. There is surprisingly little logic or coherency sometimes given what an all-round smart guy I am, but I often need to leave; that’s the only constant.
BB: You also caused quite a fuss with your political opinions, care to give us a summary of that?
RÖ: Well like all Swedes I despise Americans. They are evil fascists and they want to conquer the world. I support terrorism (I mean, freedom fighting) in all its manifestations. I only wish I could grow a beard and look mean and rugged, but my pale nordic complexion makes that one fantasy I will never get to live out.
BB: Err, OK. Good thing you don’t live in the US or you’d be in camp X-Ray by now. Back to Java…You’ve done a lot of AOP stuff recently, what do you think of all the frameworks out there?
RÖ: They all suck. They’re solving problems I solved 8-12 months ago. It’s funny seeing them repeat the same mistakes I made.
BB: What mistakes?
RÖ: You know, the mistakes I made. The mistakes I talked about. You know, surely you don’t want me to repeat myself? Ok, I will. They’re solving the same problems. I keep telling them, but they insist on solving the same problems. Well I’ve forgotten what the actual problems are, but I know they’re doing stuff I’ve done ages ago. I try to argue rationally but they keep confusing the issue with facts. My AOP framework craps on their AOP frameworks from a great height. Especially that idiot Bill Burke. JBoss sucks, I laugh in their general direction. They mean nothing to me, and I hate them all. Marc Fleury is a con artist.
BB: A lot of people have wondered, what really happened to cause you to leave The Middleware Company?
RÖ: It’s all about The Matrix. What is fascinating if you watch one of the middle Animatrix clips 50 times with the 28th time backwards, it explains EVERYTHING. Don’t offer up any Matrix opinions if you haven’t done so, clearly you’re a mere amateur and are not well versed in the matrix googleverse. It’s so deep and meaningful, and something I think we should all think about on a meta-pseudo-level. Plus it’s fun!

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