"The first true successor to Tracy Kidder's The Soul of a New
Machine"
— JAMES FALLOWS,
The Atlantic
"Stellar reporting and writing"— DAN
GILLMOR
Why is software so hard?
Hard to make well. Hard to deliver on time. Hard to use.
Our civilization runs on software. Yet the art of creating it continues to be a dark mystery, even to the experts, and the greater our ambitions, the more spectacularly we seem to fail.
Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software sets out to understand why, through the story of one software project -- Mitch Kapor's Chandler, an ambitious, open-source effort to rethink the world of e-mail and scheduling.
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