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If you liked this article, you should read Show Stopper. It's out of print, but there are ample used copies via Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0029356
by jjguy 13y ago
If you liked this article, you should read Show Stopper. It's out of print, but there are ample used copies via Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0029356717/ http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0029356717/
- voltagex_ 13y agoSeems to be everywhere as an eBook. http://ereads.com/ecms/book_title/Showstopper http://ereads.com/ecms/book_title/Showstopper (warning, will set affiliate codes on Amazon links)
- tokenrove 13y agoIt's not quite at the level of Soul of a New Machine, but I still think every programmer should read this book. A great story from the trenches. It gave me so much respect for Dave Cutler, and confirmed so many things I suspected about Microsoft at the time.
- _sh 13y agoYeah? My reading of that book was that there was such an inhuman marriage/life destroying crunch getting NT out the door that nobody covered themselves in glory, much less showed themselves worthy of respect. And it explained to me, in clear terms, why Windows was such a buggy pile of shit. It was created of its culture.
- mschaef 13y ago"FoxTales" by Kerry Nietz is also a good read. Kerry talks about his experiences joining FoxPro development as a freshout college grad. I never cared all that much for FoxPro/xbase, but the book is a good read. http://www.amazon.com/FoxTales-Behind-Scenes-Fox-Software/dp/1930919506 http://www.amazon.com/FoxTales-Behind-Scenes-Fox-Software/dp...