Showstopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft - Couverture souple

Zachary, G. Pascal

 
9781497638839: Showstopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft
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ISBN 10 : 1497638836 ISBN 13 : 9781497638839
Editeur : Open Road Media, 2014

Synopsis

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 Bruce 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.

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À propos de l'auteur

G. Pascal Zachary is a journalist, author, and teacher. He spent thirteen years as a senior writer for the Wall Street Journal (1989 to 2001) and writes regularly for newspapers, magazines, and journals, including Salon, Foreign Policy, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Wilson Quarterly, Fortune, and AlterNet. Zachary concentrates on African affairs. He also writes on globalization, America's role in world affairs, immigration, race and identity, and the dysfunctionalities and divisions in US society.


Zachary teaches journalism at Stanford University. He has lectured on various campuses, including those of MIT, Caltech, Puget Sound, UC Berkeley, Connecticut, and Tufts. He is a fellow at the Institute for Applied Economics at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore and a senior associate at the Nautilus Institute in San Francisco. Currently, he is writing a book on the political economy of sub-Saharan Africa and a memoir of his marriage to an African, the Igbo hair braider Chizo Okon. They live with their children in the San Francisco Bay Area. His personal website is www.gpascalzachary.com and he blogs at www.africaworksgpz.com.

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Éditeur
Open Road Media
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1497638836
ISBN 13 
9781497638839
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
338
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780029356715: Show-Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows Nt and the Next Generation at Microsoft

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0029356717 ISBN 13 :  9780029356715
Editeur : Simon & Schuster, 1994
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