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Programmers at Work: Interviews With 19 Programmers Who Shaped the Computer Industry. Peter Norvig, Director of Research at Google had written a very positive review of it on Amazon
The author of the book, Susan Lammers, is now publishing the interviews and new discussions online. For example: Butler Lampson 1986/2008 Reflections
Lampson: A beautiful program is like a beautiful theorem: It does the job elegantly. It has a simple and perspicuous structure; people say, “Oh, yes. I see that’s the way to do it.”
via: Confessions of a Science Librarian
Related: Founders at Work (Wozniak and more) – Donald Knuth, Computer Scientist – Programming Grads Meet a Skills Gap in the Real World – Lean Software Development – A Career in Computer Programming
April 6th, 2008 at 8:25 am
I am also a strong proponent of agile software development. Information Technology projects have a poor success rate. The best method, I have found, to provide better software solutions is agile development…
April 26th, 2008 at 9:29 am
“the idea of working in teams and reading each other’s code. That idea is crucial, and it might even mask out all the terrible aspects of extreme programming that alarm me…”
November 20th, 2008 at 8:20 am
My manager counts from one
Ordinals (counting numbers) have always started from one; counting from zero, while obvious and natural to many programmers, is probably wrong from a linguistic standpoint. Try to be flexible.
March 23rd, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Mary Poppendieck wrote a very good book on Lean Software Development that I use as reference. An easy read with good anecdotes.