After the Gold Rush: Creating a True Profession of Software Engineering (Best Practices) (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of After the Gold Rush: Creating a True Profession of Software Engineering (Best Practices) Saturday, August 1 2009.

• In this newest addition to Microsoft Press's acclaimed BEST PRACTICES series, award-winning author Steve McConnell offers candid reflections upon and a look ahead at the software engineering profession from one of the industry's most highly regarded practitioners. AFTER THE GOLD RUSH is a collection of illuminating original essays on contemporary software development topics that highlight critical trends and call for a more rigorous and standards-based profession. McConnell delivers a lively and provocative narrative that aims to help software developers step back from the day-to-day rush of their work and think about where their careers-and the industry they're helping to shape-are going.

Shelfari edited the contributors of After the Gold Rush: Creating a True Profession of Software Engineering (Best Practices) Thursday, July 23 2009.

• Added a contributor: Steve McConnell: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of After the Gold Rush: Creating a True Profession of Software Engineering (Best Practices) Friday, July 17 2009.

• In 1975, Fred Brooks compared the development of large software systems to dinosaurs, woolly mammoths, and saber-toothed tigers fighting the glutinous grip of the tar pit.