Yesterday I finished reading Scott Rosenberg's book Dreaming in Code - Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software (Official website / Wikipedia). Inspired by a severely problematic content management system for salon.com, Rosenberg started to think about the problems of creating complex software. Why do so many software projects fail to meet deadlines? Why do they spiral off into money black holes? Not being a software developer himself, the journalist Rosenberg started to hang out with the developers of Chandler (Official website / Wikipedia), a "revolutionary" personal information manager. He followed the Chandler team for three years, attended meetings and presentations, and asked the people involved in the project about their thoughts about software development in general and Chandler in particular. The results of this journey are written down in the book.
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