Showstopper! is a vivid account of the creation of Microsoft Windows NT, perhaps the most complex software project ever undertaken. It is also a portrait of David Cutler, NT's brilliant and, at times, brutally aggressive chief architect.
Cutler surely ranks as one of the most impressive software engineers the field has ever produced. After leading the team that created the VMS operating system for Digital's VAX computer line--an accomplishment that most would regard as a lifetime achievement--he went on to conceive and lead the grueling multi-year project that ultimately produced Windows NT. Both admired and feared by his team, Cutler would let nothing stand in the way of realizing his design and often clashed with his programmers, senior Microsoft management, and even Gates himself. Yet no matter how involved he became in managing his 100-programmer team, he continued to immerse himself in every technical detail of the project and write critical portions of the code himself.
Showstopper! is also a fascinating look at programmer and managerial culture behind the Microsoft facade. The portraits of the men and women who created NT not only reveal the brilliance of their work but the crushing stress and the dislocating effects that new wealth had on their lives. For some team members, the NT project ultimately destroyed their marriages, friendships, and virtually every human relationship outside of work. Showstopper! also reveals the uncertainties, false starts, and blind alleys that dogged the project as Microsoft repositioned NT from an improved OS/2 to something that would ultimately challenge both OS/2 and Unix for the title of the world's most powerful operating system.
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评分也许是对本书期望过高，实际读过之后，感觉让我震撼和收获的地方并不多。我差不多是在几次构建的等待，和两天地铁上下班的时间读完的。 这本书从风格上讲，和《梦断代码》类似，都是记者从旁观者的角度，讲述软件开发团队内部的故事。不同的地方在于，《梦断代码》讲述的是一...
评分IT和软件项目经理 本书的成书时间是1994年，所以不会因微软后续发迹而产生偏见，也没有对后来各位微软大拿鼓吹。 作为一部报告文学，应该是相对客观的，描写了整个项目的众生相，每个出场人员都会从相貌、性格和经历介绍起，倒很像古典派的小说。 特别是作者还试图描述了一些...
评分也许是对本书期望过高，实际读过之后，感觉让我震撼和收获的地方并不多。我差不多是在几次构建的等待，和两天地铁上下班的时间读完的。 这本书从风格上讲，和《梦断代码》类似，都是记者从旁观者的角度，讲述软件开发团队内部的故事。不同的地方在于，《梦断代码》讲述的是一...
评分我是断断续续的读完这本书的，所以很多内容感觉上不是很连贯。我不知道是因为我的断断续续，还是因为翻译质量导致的，但为了维护对自己近30年的汉语经验的一点点可怜的自尊，我还是归咎于翻译质量吧。 这位同学举出了一些：http://book.douban.com/review/2308117/，自己在读...
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good book to know how other team or company works on the critical project, how to keep the team morale, and how to handle stress,etc. A lot of findings in this book.
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评分good book to know how other team or company works on the critical project, how to keep the team morale, and how to handle stress,etc. A lot of findings in this book.
评分书写的不咋样
评分是一本了解大型软件开发人员心理状态的好书
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