Andy Hertzfeld
Andy Hertzfeld (born April 6, 1953 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania ) is an American software developer . As a leading member of the original Apple development teams he has since the dawn of Apple Computer , both in the design and development through support of open source - software in the Open Source Applications Foundation participated, one of the computer easier and better to use .
Hertzfeld's Apple business card was called "Software Wizard," and he wrote much of the Macintosh system software, including most of the ROM code, the User Interface Toolbox, and a number of innovative components that are found in many today GUIs are standard, for example the control panel.
Life
After graduating from Brown University in 1975 in Computer Science, Hertzfeld attended graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley . In 1978 he bought an Apple II computer and soon after began developing software. He was employed by Apple in 1979 as a system programmer and developed the silent type printer and the first 80-character card for the Apple II.
After the Apple II team had been redesigned, Hertzfeld was asked to join the newly founded Macintosh team in February 1981 by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs . There he worked for Bud Tribble and side by side with Bill Atkinson and Burrell Smith . Hertzfeld became one of the leading software architects of the Mac OS , which was considered revolutionary because of its graphical user interface .
Since leaving Apple in 1984, he has co-founded three new companies: Radius (1986), General Magic (1990) and Eazel (1999), where he helped develop the Nautilus file manager for the GNOME environment on Linux . Innovation and ease of use are also important to him under Linux.
In early 2004, he opened folklore.org , a website that contains dozens of anecdotes about the development of the first Macintosh. The stories were published in December 2004 under the title Revolution in the Valley .
Hertzfeld has been working for Google since August 2005 , where he is primarily responsible for the Google+ user interface .
Fonts
- Revolution in the Valley - The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made . O'Reilly Associates 2004. ISBN 0-596-00719-1
Web links
- Differet.com - Andy Hertzfeld's personal homepage, a collection of websites that he either designed or hosted
- Folklore.org - A collection of first hand stories about the early days of the Macintosh .
- macnotes.de - German interview with Andy Hertzfeld on the 25th anniversary of the Macintosh .
Individual evidence
- ^ Andy Hertzfeld: Software Wizard. Retrieved February 15, 2016 .
- ^ Rene Pickhardt: First Impressions of Google+ Usability Reminding of Apple. (No longer available online.) June 30, 2011, archived from the original on July 4, 2011 ; accessed on June 30, 2011 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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SURNAME | Hertzfeld, Andy |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American software developer |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 6, 1953 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Philadelphia , Pennsylvania |