Software Exorcism: A Handbook for Debugging and Optimizing Legacy Code (Expert's Voice)
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1590592344 |
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Release Date |
30 November 1999 |
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Programming |
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YOU HAVE TO OWN THIS BOOK!
If you don't own it, you're a lost cause and there's nothing we can do for you.
Software Exorcism: A Handbook for Debugging and Optimizing Legacy Code discusses sociological forces that make it difficult for programmers to do their job. Have a co-worker that continually messes up code and YOU need to FIX the PROBLEM? This is your book. Read it. Own it. Let it work for you. BE GONE BAD CODE! There are plenty of books that discuss how to debug, but these books fall short by mistaking a symptom for the illness.
Software Exorcism takes an unflinching and honest, "no bulls$&#" look at the true behavioral problems in software engineering and software engineers for that matter (you know one, don't you). The brutally honest approach and accompanying illustrations from the dark ages make this book a fascinating read. This is a special title that will be both technically useful and visually stimulating to the reader.
Slashdot Says...
"Leave it to a SubGenius preacher to take normally mundane subjects, like software maintenance, and expose the unholy conspiracy behind them. I think the following quote from the introduction sums up the tone of the book nicely: 'Rather than shield your eyes from the sordid realities of the software industry, I am going to dust off my old 8mm films and let you take a good look at the uncensored truth for yourself. You may want to keep a paper bag handy in case you get sick.
Readers are saying...
"Ok, I've worked with EVERY moron in the book... was this one [book] written about the guy who sits in the cube next to me?" - Dan, VSLive 2003 Orlando attendee
"...and I thought that I was the only person to ever actually THROW my laptop across the room at a fellow coder." -Name Unknown... overheard at Microsoft PDC, Los Angeles
Ahhh, yes. Another treatise on how The Man is tapdancing on our heads. - "The Man," Slashdot reader |
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