History
14. Oktober 2024 / 14. Oktober 2024 von Daniel Annen | Kommentar schreiben
Dylan Beattie (14.10.2024) The History of Software in Three-Letter Acronyms continues with D is for DOS: the story of how the IBM PC shipped with Microsoft’s Disk Operating System – and no, it’s not because Gary Kildall went flying that day.
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Schlagworte
24. September 2024 / 24. September 2024 von Daniel Annen | Kommentar schreiben
Dylan Beattie (25.03.2024) Just because there’s a new way to do something doesn’t mean the old way doesn’t work. In this video, we’ll look at the history of web apps, from static HTML, to server-side rendering, applets, plugins, XMLHttpRequest, AJAX, single page apps, web assembly: where did all these patterns come from? What fundamental innovations […]
History Unix/Linux
17. August 2024 / 17. August 2024 von Daniel Annen | Kommentar schreiben
Dylan Beattie (27.05.2024) In the early 1990s, the Corel corporation created CorelDRAW!, a truly excellent vector graphics program for Microsoft Windows. Then they bought WordPerfect, tried to port it to Java, failed… then in 1999 they released a GNU/Linux distribution – Corel Linux. It should have been amazing. It’s possibly the closest we ever came […]
15. August 2024 / 15. August 2024 von Daniel Annen | Kommentar schreiben
Dylan Beattie (05.08.2024) For the vast majority of folks working in tech these days, ASCII is just part of the fabric of technology: the idea that anybody actually designed it might come as a bit of a shock. But they did, and I think they actually did a really good job. Let’s take a wander […]
History Think!
25. März 2024 / 25. März 2024 von Daniel Annen | Kommentar schreiben
Dylan Beattie • YOW! 2023 GOTO Conferences (11.02.2024) This presentation was recorded at YOW! Australia 2023. KODAK Super 8 Camera Roger Penrose: The Emperor’s New Mind Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics
23. März 2024 / 23. März 2024 von Daniel Annen | Kommentar schreiben
NDC Conferences (12.03.2024) This talk was recorded at NDC Porto in Porto, Portugal.
Allgemein
11. November 2023 / 11. November 2023 von Daniel Annen | Kommentar schreiben
NDC Conferences (12.01.2022) It wasn’t all that long ago that “computers” weren’t machines – they were people; humans working with pencils and slide rules to calculate taxes, artillery tables, even the mathematics that landed human beings on the moon. The advent of the microprocessor consigned these human computers to a footnote in history, and in […]
HTML/CSS/JavaScript Humor
Dylan Beattie (23.02.2020) A musical parody of AC/DC‘s “Highway to Hell”, all about how building static HTML websites is awesome.
History Internet
NDC Conferences (13.11.2018) The story of the web is a story about freedom. It’s a story about information, about breaking down barriers, about creating new ways for people to communicate, to collaborate, and to share their ideas. It’s also a story that has as much do with marketing, money and meetings as it does with […]
Programmierung
15. April 2022 / 5. November 2023 von Daniel Annen | Kommentar schreiben
DotNext (16.08.2019) Coders write code That’s what we do We write functions and classes and modules — and amazing things happen! With a few keystrokes we can solve complex calculations, find hidden patterns in the data of our everyday lives, and send information flying around the planet at the speed of light The world uses […]
Build Stuff (04.04.2017) Dylan Beattie is a systems architect and software developer. He’s been building interactive web applications on the Microsoft stack since the days of Windows NT 4. Today his main interests are HTTP APIs, user experience design, and distributed systems. He wrote his first web page in 1992 and never looked back. Dylan’s […]
19. März 2022 / 5. November 2023 von Daniel Annen | Kommentar schreiben
NDC Conferences (31.07.2017) Wait… what? Are there any questions? Isn’t that supposed to be at the end? Not this time. At NDC Oslo 2017, we’re going to turn things upside-down and do the questions right at the beginning. Because, for as long as human beings have existed, we’ve asked questions. Questions about the world around […]
History Programmierung
16. März 2022 / 5. November 2023 von Daniel Annen | Kommentar schreiben
NDC Conferences (26.02.2020) Software and technology has changed every aspect of the world we live in. At one extreme are the ‘mission critical’ applications – the code that runs our banks, our hospitals, our airports and phone networks. Then there’s the code we all use every day to browse the web, watch movies, create spreadsheets… […]
History Tools
NDC Conferences (29.05.2018) Picture the scene: you’re on a train, your phone goes ‘ping’, you take it out of your pocket and hey – someone sent you a message! It’s a video of a kitten falling off a chair! You send back ‘LOL’, you put your phone back in your pocket… but have you ever […]
History Humor Programmierung
15. März 2022 / 5. November 2023 von Daniel Annen | Kommentar schreiben
Dylan Beattie (06.10.2018) A musical parody of Don McLean’s “American Pie” about the history of programming and software development.
