>I'm just reading McConnell's new book about creating a software engineering profession ("After the Goldrush) in which he argues that what we do is engineering, not science. Science is reasearch and engineering is production. So in a way, we engineering graduates are much better suited to being software developers that you CompSci graduates (g, d & r VVVVF)

Hey Andrew,

Have you finished this book yet? I got about 2/3 of the way through it, and to quote William F. Buckley's kid, "This book - well, once you put it down, you simply can't pick it back up!"

Is it just me or has the latest crop of books by the "pundits" been uniformly boring and pendantic? McConnell's After the Gold Rush, Alan Cooper's Inmates, Ed Yourden's Deathmarch, and so on. The only thing I've found in the last four months that I've actually finished is Gerry Weinberg's Secrets of Consulting. (It's not a trashy "Make Money Fast" book like the title sort of sounds like.)

I'm also halfway through Mark Minasi's Software Conspiracy and it's fairly good, although his whining is starting to grate on me too....

Whil