The story begins in Silicon Valley in the last century, it was the Gold Rush era of software, then people with a wide variety of novel ideas to join the computer technology industry. Like the beginning of the story, when the technology sector is a Sumer-- a whiteboard, a profile, a large cattle are all technology add their own indelible mark on it. But just like two sides of the same coin, some flourished, some decline, accustomed to seeing the unique aspects of science and technology initiative, used to see the history of science and technology a big step closer to success, but also have failed, that nobody cares about the error to make a person fall into the trough of the move stumble. We appreciate the time of the glorious history of the software, we must recognize that all sorts of hardship and bitterness behind, "Dreaming in Code" is such a story, by means of Rosenberg Chandle hand, as we slowly started a Vice picture, but not epic, but Hyakki software industry.
"Why can not we make the same software as the bridge-building."
The story begins when a group of heroes is helpless to face a steady stream of legendary monsters, abjection scene. Chandle project has been delayed to the point of bewildering, like the tar pits "Mythical Man-Month" in, no one can break free from the inside, the greater the deeper physique, but unfortunately, are participating in the project Experienced programmers - the industry's mammoth, but their glorious past can not help to get them, whether it is involved in Macintosh systems, or over-write the core code for the Netscape browser. Such catastrophic delays are not uncommon at the time, which can still be attributed to software engineering has not yet developed; today, this delay is still a lot to see, which explains a phenomenon of the software industry, its management and its important work hours . Development program is a cooperative task, to do not fully grasp the progress of the project, because it is not linear with the number of participants distributed through person-months of this concept, even if efficiency is completely different from person to person. We also will experience in a university project to the indefinite extension of this distress, the big question is whether the job of the teacher to stay quiz or the final results, there will always be delays, but this face deadline closer and closer to their work also left a lot of sense of panic we have experience. But we and the industry which is not the same, we are in a relaxed environment inside, the face of such a "disaster" we are often indifferent, but once we entered the community will really face such hardship, we really should be prepared, strict demands on themselves, constantly improve ourselves in order to face future difficulties.
Began the succession of the soul, dream
There was once a legendary software called Agenda, which is a software front line drive Chandle, in a sense, this is a change in the relationship between man and computer software, although it is to achieve the user-friendliness of data. Agenda does not require users care about storage structure, users only need to enter can, Agenda can help users automatically manage data, this is a great user experience process, this is a pioneering work at the time, like Macintosh systems on the same system Dos , subversive, but unfortunately did not cause changes in the last Agenda role in the world because, unlike commercial software was not suitable for the market. In the beginning of the century, when the prevalence of open source software, Agenda pioneer Kapoor want to continue to have a dream, so there Chandle this project.
Just as we create your own team, with a goal to develop the same, we all have such original ideals, everything is good, but, like Chandle, we will encounter hardship, we how to deal with those suffering ? Whether we can easily deal with? I will discuss in the next book review inside.