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Scott Rosenberg’s Wordyard » Blog Archive » There is no end — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:51:17 +0000

[...] dealing with complaints (unfair! not true!) that I’d “bailed out,” I have become inordinately obsessed with tracking examples of successful creative works that lack a traditional [...]

By: David Hudson

David Hudson — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 22:18:36 +0000

Perhaps the book needs a couple of more iterations, V2.0 anyone? Seriously, after (well during) reading the book, I pulled up the projects website.. The video of how the thing works is lovely but not tempting me to switch (I loved ECCO and used to use it). I’ll check back on the project, and book in a few more cycles.

By: Christina Wodtke

Christina Wodtke — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:45:56 +0000

Have we learned nothing from Truman? He hung out for the end of the story and never wrote anything of note again. Ship the software, ship the book! Don’t be In Cold Blood (though darn, that was a rather good book…)

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 00:03:59 +0000

I’ve just finished your book (last night) and I agree… the ending is very appropriate to the subject matter. I found as a whole that it was a very accurate description of software development; I myself am currently reaching the end of a 3 month long death march.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:07:38 +0000

I think your ending was appropriate and well done. No software is ever truly finished, as you wrote (and as a software engineer I agree). This project was quite stellar in its unfinishedness.