I came across this excellent review of Software Conflict 2.0 [1] today, written by blogger Ben Pryor. Frankly, this review makes my day. Ben's reaction validates exactly the reasons why we were inspired to do this, and why we chose this book as the place to start. I know that Ben is going to like Software Creativity 2.0 [2] even more.

From Ben's review:

"Robert Glass is a prolific author, and I've enjoyed his work before. The collection of essays in this book is no exception: despite being 15 years old they feel incredibly relevant to software engineering today. Particularly interesting are the portions of the book where Glass relates anecdotes of the early days of software development (room-sized computers, etc) and successfully ties the stories into today's industry landscape. As a young practitioner in the software field, it's often easy for me to think that the issues of today are somehow new and original. Reading older material like this is enlightening: the issues (the very same issues) that we discuss, debate, and write articles about today were being discussed, debated, and written about decades ago. In many ways, the software industry as a whole has re-learned the same lessons over and over again."

Dan