Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Tra... - 0 views
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Graham Perrin on 22 Dec 08A most remarkable omission from the reviews on Amazon (and presumably, from the book) is: discussion of standards, such as those relating to CalDAV. OSAF/Chandler Project members made significant contributions to the drafting and setting of standards. Happily, we don't hear companies such as Apple or Google criticising Chandler Project history whilst embracing/enjoying CalDAV. I suspect that - however well written the book may be - a *focus* on a space in time (however short or long) has overlooked the broader value of the Project.
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Graham Perrin on 22 Dec 08I'll rate and review this book, probably some time around Christmas.
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Graham Perrin on 22 Dec 08"Our civilization runs on software. Yet the art of creating it continues to be a dark mystery, even to the experts, and the greater our ambitions, the more spectacularly we seem to fail. … [this book] sets out to understand why, through the story of one software project -- Mitch Kapor's Chandler, an ambitious, open-source effort…