After the Gold Rush
by Steve C McConnell · first published 1999
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"Steve McConnell - a leader in defining software engineering's best practices - asserts that software development is entering a new era. Now's the time, McConnell says, for the industry to take notice and take action - and establish a true profession of software engineering. But are you ready?" "Through a new collection of essays, After the Gold Rush examines the state of the industry - and the critical developments already in motion that are shaping the future of professional software development.". "Whether you're a programmer, student, manager, educator, or public-policy maker, After the G
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I have a copy of After the Gold Rush on a bookshelf somewhere. I don't remember much about it, other than I liked it at the time :-)
on “Ask HN: Best Books on the DotCom Bubble?” ↗Microsoft, for one, has been pushing for that for over a decade. I read Steve McConnell's After the Gold Rush: Creating a True Profession of Software Engineering, a few years ago and had read articles in several print magazines, I'm pretty sure Dr Dobb's had several, in the late 1990s.
on “The dangers of unlicensed engineering” ↗I even have the book After the Gold Rush https://www.amazon.com/After-Gold-Rush-Profession-Engineerin...
on “The Tech Gold Rush Is Over. Where's the Next One?” ↗It has been many years since After The Gold Rush was published and we are no closer today than we were then. At some point software engineering will be a real profession but I doubt anyone will take action before some huge catastrophe pushes the issue.
on “TikTok streaming software is an illegal fork of OBS” ↗