Archive for the ‘Software and History’ Category

A History of Software in 64 Programs

Tuesday, November 15th, 2011

This is a new exiting book project I’m working on now scheduled for release in 2012 with ISBN 978-1908043337. If your company would like to have its programs considered for inclusion please let me know and send a copy just in case I would need to include screenshots. I’ll update about this project soon.

- Dmitry Vostokov @ SoftwareGeneralist.com -

MVC Worldview and The Origin of Economic Order

Wednesday, September 7th, 2011

A few weeks ago when I was asked about my opinion whether the current economic crisis will deepen an idea came to me that Cloud Computing is the last Model piece of MVC (Model-View-Controller) where View is Social Media such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc. and Controller is Internet itself. With the final piece of the puzzle the World needs new MVC Revolution in order to get back on track.

- Dmitry Vostokov @ SoftwareGeneralist.com -

Empires of the Code (Book Inception)

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

Windows code, Unix code, MSDOS code, BeOS code, Cantor code, PDP code, x86 code, … Every such code has its distinct semantics and pragmatics, converging, evolving and coming to extinction, backed by economic, social and political forces, having its readers and writers. A few years ago I bought and started reading the book “Empires of the Word” by Nicholas Ostler and while thinking today whether I should buy its Folio edition I finally realised that there are also empires of the code intertwined with modern history. As usual, I reserve an ISBN number for this (978-1906717810) yet unwritten book and starting to think about collaborative writing.

- Dmitry Vostokov @ SoftwareGeneralist.com -