Dreaming in Code
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Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software is a (2007) Random House literary nonfiction book by Salon.com editor and journalist Scott Rosenberg. It is one of the most significant recent books about software[dubious – discuss], documenting Mitch Kapor's Open Source Application Foundation as it struggles with collaboration and the massive software endeavor of building the open source calendar application Chandler.
Like Tracy Kidder in The Soul of a New Machine, Rosenberg embeds with the organization and reports on its milestones and problems. Rosenberg intersperses narrative with explanations of software development philosophy, methodology, and process, referring to The Mythical Man-Month and other classics of the field.
As of the book's publication, and as of August 2007, OSAF has not yet released Chandler 1.0.
External links
- Official web site
- Amazon page for "Dreaming in Code"
- "Joel On Software" review of "Dreaming in Code"
- Author interview at Salon.com
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