Monday, January 07, 2008 3:33 PM
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Book Review: I. M. WRIGHT'S "HARD CODE"
This is the best book ever published by Microsoft Press. PERIOD!
Eric Brechner already has one of the best blogs on MSDN, but he also have written a great book.
The book is the collection of 49 "Hard Code" columns that were first published on some Microsoft private sites.
If you've enjoyed Joel on Software and Eric Sink on the Business of Software you already know the style of the book. The only difference (a big one!) is that those books were made by "public" posts, this one is made up by "internal" columns, not initially thought to be published outside Microsoft.
The columns (and the book) are brutally honest, and are written with a very direct language (don't expect "politically correctness" or other forms of "clean" language), this book goes directly to the point.
It's a best practices book, not only about coding, but also about managing projects, people, work vs life, security, life cycle management, and so on.
If you plan to read only one book this year (
), be sure to pick this one, and perhaps it will change your life!
If you already want to grow and read more than one book this year, be sure to start from this one... perhaps it will change your growing path 
.