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Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software by Scott Rosenberg

Scott Rosenberg . Unknown Year . English

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.

Categories: Mystery

About the Author

I grew up in Queens, NY, and first experienced the joys of self-publishing in close proximity to a hand-cranked mimeograph machine. Spent my 20s as a theater and movie critic, first for the Boston Phoenix, then the SF Examiner. Fell under the spell of the Bay Area's techno-culture just in time to experience the joys of self-publishing on the Web in its earliest days. Helped found Salon.com in 1995, edited its technology coverage through 1999, then became managing editor. Took a leave from Nov 2004 to Dec. 2005 to write DREAMING IN CODE.

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