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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Scott Rosenberg will be at the <st1:place
w:st="on">Hillside</st1:place> club, this Sunday, with Eric Allman, and others:
<a href="http://www.hillsideclub.org/blog/?p=24">http://www.hillsideclub.org/blog/?p=24</a>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
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baypiggies-bounces@python.org [mailto:baypiggies-bounces@python.org] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Alex Martelli<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Friday, March 02, 2007 4:25
PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Robert Taylor<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> baypiggies@python.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Baypiggies] Dreaming
in Code</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>On 3/2/07, <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Robert Taylor</span></b>
<<a href="mailto:rob@pcnt.com">rob@pcnt.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>I recently had the
pleasure of reading "Dreaming in Code" by Scott Rosenberg.</span></font><font
size=4 face=Arial><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font><font
size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>He explores the question of why large software
projects are so difficult, and uses the Open Source Applications Foundation's
"<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Chandler</st1:place></st1:City>"
project as a case study. I enjoyed the book, for its review of software
development, the specific history of <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Chandler</st1:place></st1:City>,
and interesting anecdotes from computing history. The book does not pretend to
offer any simple solutions, but does raise interesting questions, and
entertains along the way. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>What did you think of this book?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>It's an important read:
it's important to realize that problems (feature creep, slippage) can and do
happen to good project (ones with good people and several good choices of
technologies and approaches). We (collectively, as a profession) need to
learn from our (collective) mistakes, and mistakes made by skilled people who
have avoided many obvious pitfalls can be particularly instructive. <br>
<br>
Alex<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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