Bio

Ben Balbo was born in Germany, grew up in the UK, lives in Melbourne, and brews his own beer.

He frequently speaks at Australian and international conferences and events on a broad range of topics. He also drinks a lot of coffee.

Desktop Applications for Web Developers

In the beginning, there was no web. People would run programs on their computers, and they would save things on to disks. Then came the network and file servers, followed by application servers and Intranets. After that came software as a service. Our data is moving further from the desktop, but are the applications coming back?

Join Ben in this brief historical tour and watch him delve in to current methods for distributing data while localising applications, to produce the desktop applications for the web we see today.

This talk is aimed at web developers who are starting to delve in to the world of desktop applications.