Dreaming in Code · Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software
- Authors
- Rosenberg, Scott
- Publisher
- Three Rivers Press
- Tags
- software development & engineering , social aspects , business , computer software , computer industry , computer software - development , industries , programming , general , business & economics , computers , development
- ISBN
- 9781400082476
- Date
- 2007-01-16T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.50 MB
- Lang
- en
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.