Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software
Our civilization runs on software. Yet the art of creating it continues to be a dark mystery, even to the experts. To find out why it’s so hard to bend computers to our will, Scott Rosenberg spent three years following a team of maverick software developers—led by Lotus 1-2-3 creator Mitch...
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Our civilization runs on software. Yet the art of creating it continues to be a dark mystery, even to the experts. To find out why it’s so hard to bend computers to our will, Scott Rosenberg spent three years following a team of maverick software developers—led by Lotus 1-2-3 creator Mitch Kapor—designing a novel personal information manager meant to challenge market leader Microsoft Outlook. Their story takes us through a maze of abrupt dead ends and exhilarating breakthroughs as they wrestle not only with the abstraction of code, but with the unpredictability of human behavior— especially their own.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781400082476 (1400082471)
Publish date: February 26th 2008
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Pages no: 416
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Computer Science,
Programming,
Science,
Technology,
Software,
Technical,
Computers,
Business,
Pop Culture,
Geek
I don't recommend this book if you are a software engineer or manager, or any other kind of insider in the software development. You'll find little useful or interesting information here and lots of annoying demagogy. The only informative places were those that quoted books and articles on the matte...
I'm bailing on it before getting halfway through. It's not a bad book, it's just not holding my attention. The story is interrupted too many times with tangential information and the plot hasn't captured my imagination; maybe it's not supposed to. I guess since I live half the stuff in this book eve...
As CIO at a small college, I had the distinct unpleasure of signing purchase orders for software license renewals and maintenance contracts. In what other business would you buy a product that costs enormous sums of money, is guaranteed to be flawed, will require frequent and costly upgrades, never...
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