Get an inside look at how one of Microsoft's EngineeringExcellence directors drives discussions about coding best practices. Thepopular column, I. M. Wright's "Hard Code," was written by Eric Brechner'salter-ego to help stimulate discussion among development engineers atMicrosoft--a proven-effective idea. Deliberately provocative, ideas havebeen debated and pondered by thousands within Microsoft and haveincreasingly drawn attention from others in the industry. With this book,these essays are now available to any developer. They are thematicallyarranged, each helping to spark the imagination, stimulate discussion, andpromote debate about software development tasks and processes. Theyencourage developers to reexamine coding, testing, and software-developmentproject-management practices--and gain insight into their own processes tohelp drive excellence in large, distributed business groups.