Why is software so hard? Hard to make well. Hard to deliver on time. Hard to use.

Our civilization runs on software. Yet the art of creating it continues to be a dark mystery, even to the experts, and the greater our ambitions, the more spectacularly we seem to fail.

Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software sets out to understand why, through the story of one software project — Mitch Kapor’s Chandler, an ambitious, open-source effort to rethink the world of e-mail and scheduling.

I bought this book yesterday. After taking a look at what Wiki has to say about Chandler I’m much more eager to read. 

I don’t expect to understand much of technical side of the book, but I do expect it to spark a lot of good conversation with my software developer boyfriend and help me understand  his work a little better.

If you’ve already read the book, or know more about Chandler or have any similar book recommendations, email me and let me know!