Showstopper! by G Pascal Zachary
This "inside account captures the energy--and the madness--of the software giant's race to develop a critical new program. . . . Gripping" (FortuneMagazine).
Showstopper is the dramatic, inside story of the creation of Windows NT, told by Wall Street Journal reporter G. Pascal Zachary. Driven by the legendary David Cutler, a picked band of software engineers sacrifices almost everything in their lives to build a new, stable, operating system aimed at giving Microsoft a platform for growth through the next decade of development in the computing business.
Comparable in many ways to the Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder, Showstopper gets deep inside the process of software development, the lives and motivations of coders and the pressure to succeed coupled with the drive for originality and perfection that can pull a diverse team together to create a program consisting of many hundreds of thousands of lines of code.
Showstopper is the dramatic, inside story of the creation of Windows NT, told by Wall Street Journal reporter G. Pascal Zachary. Driven by the legendary David Cutler, a picked band of software engineers sacrifices almost everything in their lives to build a new, stable, operating system aimed at giving Microsoft a platform for growth through the next decade of development in the computing business.
Comparable in many ways to the Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder, Showstopper gets deep inside the process of software development, the lives and motivations of coders and the pressure to succeed coupled with the drive for originality and perfection that can pull a diverse team together to create a program consisting of many hundreds of thousands of lines of code.
G. Pascal Zachary is a former senior writer and foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal. His writings also have appeared in Fast Company, Mother Jones, Technology Review, Foreign Policy, and other publications. He is a contributing editor to the radical news magazine In These Times, for whom he writes about Africa, political economy, and jazz. He is the author of two previous books: Showstopper and Endless Frontier. Zachary lives in Berkeley, California and Accra, Ghana.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781497638839 |
| ISBN 10 | 1497638836 |
| Title | Showstopper! |
| Author | G Pascal Zachary |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Open Road Media |
| Year published | 2014-09-04 |
| Number of pages | 338 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |