Software Engineering ​: Greatest Hits 1947 2047 Mark Rendle & Dylan Beattie

From Colossus, ENIAC and valve memory to quantum cryptography, biological algorithms and the singularity, there’s one thing that never changes. Methodologies and languages may come and go, but “best practice” has always been a guarantee of quality. Great systems that work first time, delivered on time, every time - and all thanks to the engineering miracle of “best practice”.
Join Mark Rendle and Dylan Beattie as we take you on a journey through the amazing history - and future - of software engineering. We’ll be showing off the best ideas, patterns and techniques from a century of best practice and software excellence.

After all, trends may come and go, but truly great engineering never goes out of fashion.

NDC Conferences

[luisfilmsite]

Chaotic, confusing, entertaining, and interesting, what more do you want from a talk?

[f.d.]

18:55 I was concentrating on eating my noodles when I heard "Tell us Mark, what's the last programming language we'll ever need?" -- "It's BASIC." -- and I spit the noodles all over the place. XD

[henrykkaufman]

At first I was "but where is C?!" and then I figured out that it won't fit because it's not a joke.

[RetroGenetic]

This didn't age too well.. I wonder when tickets for NDC { Bunker D} 2027 are available?

[vandero.]

"...a 2B pencil makes a firm mark on the paper although Peter, if you could try to make your 1s look like 1s not 7s that would help the programmers an awful lot..."😂😂😂😂

[codyheiner]

Hilarious, entertaining, and perhaps even mildly educational!

[malcolmanderson]

Not a bad talk. Entertaining and I love that 1970/01/01 is false, and that it was verified.

[vandero.]

"..Mr Rendle what was the best kind of pencil to write your code?"😂😂😂😂

[rfvtgbzhn]

24:17 a CD-ROM with sleeve cost just a few cents to make, so even if just 1% (or maybe even 0.1%) of CDs led to a new subscriber, it would still be worth the effort.

[ianprice]

So sad! They missed the opportunity in the '80s to mention the the last programming language you'd ever need, called 'The Last One'!!! No joke....

[matrix]

Collosus wasn't for breaking an enigma, but another german cryptographic system. Enigma was breaken by Bomba - polish invention only enhanced by turing

[cjnewbs]

Heard the java joke and immediately had to give this a like 😂😂

[TheSMasa]

So, could not predict what happened to Twitter

[Thatoneguy-o]

Please remember t test your EMP grenades before deploying them into the production servers.

Beautiful

[BryonLape]

All the browser talk would make more sense for the NDC 1997 conference.

[edgeeffect]

Turing invented Collosus? There's a bloke called Tommy Flowers over here and he wants a fight.

Turing's version of the Polish Bombe was used to decrypt Enigma... Flowers' Colossus was used to decrypt the Lorenz Cypher.

[BryonLape]

I've heard it for years and I still don't get all the hate for Perl.

[viccie]

Miaj kolegaj ne ŝatas kiam mi uzas Esperanto por nomigi miajn variablojn. Sed mi tre ŝatis aŭdi la ŝercojn pri ĝi :P

[KManAbout]

Can't believe it's been five years since trump was inaugurated.

[superscatboy]

Did this just age badly or was it cringe in 2017 too?