Our civilization runs on software.
Yet the art of creating it continues to be a dark mystery, even to the experts.
To find out why it's so hard to bend computers to our will, Scott Rosenberg spent three years following a team of maverick software developers--led by Lotus 1-2-3 creator Mitch Kapor--designing a novel personal information manager meant to challenge market leader Microsoft Outlook.
Their story takes us through a maze of abrupt dead ends and exhilarating breakthroughs as they .
Crown Business Dreaming in code: two dozen programmers, three years, 4,732 bugs, and one quest for transcendent software, paperback/scott rosenberg
