Greater Oklahoma Software Symposium - June 1 - 3, 2007 - No Fluff Just Stuff

Everything Old Is New Again

Greater Oklahoma Software Symposium

Oklahoma City · June 1 - 3, 2007

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About this Presentation

The early years of computers – the '50s and '60s – were characterized by furious exploration of a huge variety of different ideas. Since then many of the hot topics of those days have moved to the fringe, largely ignored by the mainstream of software development. But some of them are being rediscovered, and a lot of what we think of as “new developments” are really just some old ideas returning to center stage.

This talk will trace the roots of some contemporary software trends back to their origins before most of us were born.

Glenn Vanderburg

Chief Scientist, Relevance Inc.

Glenn Vanderburg is a principal at Relevance, where he is focused on cutting-edge software development technologies and techniques. He brings more than 20 years of experience developing software across a wide range of domains, and using a variety of tools and technologies. Glenn is always searching for ways to improve the state of software development, and was an early adopter and proponent of Ruby, Rails, and agile practices.