{"id":1473,"date":"2007-03-22T09:38:26","date_gmt":"2007-03-22T16:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1473"},"modified":"2007-03-22T09:38:26","modified_gmt":"2007-03-22T16:38:26","slug":"dreaming-in-code-by-scott-rosenberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2007\/03\/22\/dreaming-in-code-by-scott-rosenberg\/","title":{"rendered":"&#034;Dreaming in Code&#034; by Scott Rosenberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many of you have probably read the classic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Soul-New-Machine-Tracy-Kidder\/dp\/0316491977?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1174578317&amp;sr=8-1\">The Soul of a New Machine<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thequantumpon-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important;margin:0px !important\" \/> by Tracy Kidder which chronicles the building of a minicomputer at Data General in the late seventies.  Earlier this week the torrent finally let up (no it didn&#8217;t stop raining) and spring break descended so I made a trip to the bookstore.  There I found a book proclaiming on the back jacket to be the first true successor to <i>The Soul of a New Machine<\/i>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dreaming-Code-Programmers-Transcendent-Software\/dp\/1400082463?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1174578606&amp;sr=1-1\">Dreaming In Code<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thequantumpon-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important;margin:0px !important\" \/> by the cofounder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/\">Salon.com<\/a>, Scott Rosenberg.  <i>Dreaming in Code<\/i> chronicles the trials and tribulations of the creation of <a href=\"http:\/\/chandlerproject.org\/\">Chandler<\/a>, an &#8220;interpersonal information manager that adapts to your changing needs&#8221;, which, if you visit the website linked above, you will discover is still at version 0.7.  The book is an interesting, quick, if somewhat depressing read, I must say.  Having myself never been involved in software development beyond my own hacking around with little personal programs, I found the picture painted of how code is developed to be interesting.  Indeed, I can see in my own methods for programming many of the traits which are described as impeding good software development in a team setting: the desire to do it all yourself, the desire to reinvent instead of reuse, the desire to overdesign, etc etc.  If nothing else, this book is probably a great read for anyone on the path towards becoming a software delevoper: not really a warning so much as a case study of the trials of tribulations of dreaming in code.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of you have probably read the classic The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder which chronicles the building of a minicomputer at Data General in the late seventies. Earlier this week the torrent finally let up (no it didn&#8217;t stop raining) and spring break descended so I made a trip to the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2007\/03\/22\/dreaming-in-code-by-scott-rosenberg\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#034;Dreaming in Code&#034; by Scott Rosenberg&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-science","category-read-you-tweed"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}