Matt's stage outfits
Geertjan Wielenga: I've seen you wearing a suit and drinking whiskey while presenting a session, which was a unique combination. What was the value-add of that?
Matt Raible: That was an idea I came up with for JHipster. I was really intrigued by JHipster because it was basically what I was doing for clients.
I was either doing Angular frontends or Spring Boot backends. I could never quite get any clients to sign up for me doing both. I really wanted to promote myself because I was an independent consultant at the time and I wanted to write a book on JHipster.
I was added to the project as a committer. Then, when I was first doing a talk, I was thinking, "Well, they have the word 'hipster' in there, so I'll do that: get hip with JHipster."
"By the end, I was a hip JHipster developer drinking whatever beer was hip in the country I was in!"
—Matt Raible
I decided I should be an old-fashioned Java developer...