How do the experts solve difficult problems in software development? In
this unique and insightful book, leading computer scientists offer case
studies that reveal how they found unusual, carefully designed solutions
to high-profile projects. You will be able to look over the shoulder of
major coding and design experts to see problems through their eyes.
This is not simply another design patterns book, or another software
engineering treatise on the right and wrong way to do things. The
authors think aloud as they work through their project's architecture,
the tradeoffs made in its construction, and when it was important to
break rules.
This book contains 33 chapters contributed by Brian Kernighan,
KarlFogel, Jon Bentley, Tim Bray, Elliotte Rusty Harold, Michael
Feathers, Alberto Savoia, Charles Petzold, Douglas Crockford, Henry S.
Warren, Jr., Ashish Gulhati, Lincoln Stein, Jim Kent, Jack Dongarra and
PiotrLuszczek, Adam Kolawa, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Diomidis Spinellis,
AndrewKuchling, Travis E. Oliphant, Ronald Mak, Rogerio Atem de Carvalho
andRafael Monnerat, Bryan Cantrill, Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat,
SimonPeyton Jones, Kent Dybvig, William Otte and Douglas C. Schmidt,
AndrewPatzer, Andreas Zeller, Yukihiro Matsumoto, Arun Mehta, TV Raman,
Laura Wingerd and Christopher Seiwald, and Brian Hayes.
Beautiful Code is an opportunity for master coders to tell their
story. All author royalties will be donated to Amnesty International.
