books by Reverend Bill Blunden (handbook software exorcism)

books by Reverend Bill Blunden

books:

Offshoring IT: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

7 reviews
Reverend Bill Blunden

Apress, 2004

Realistic outsourcing view from an engineer
Cogent and well thought out arguments both for and against outsourcing. The author takes statistics, quotes and opinions from a variety of sources but ultimate the book is biased against outsourcing. This is a refreshing change from the prevailing pro-outsourcing wisdom of the other books on the subject. The book is short and well written. The text is funny without going overboard. Charts and ...

Cube Farm

11 reviews
Reverend Bill Blunden

Apress, 2004

If I had this book
Bill Blunden is a mirror image of my experience half way round the world. If I had this advice before I had gone into this industry, I will not even think of going into it. It is an industry where every dollars and cents spent in a project needs to be justified by the Return of interest. It is a good book in warning the next generation of professionals, be prepared where you never see the sun ...

Software Exorcism: A Handbook for Debugging and Optimizing Legacy Code (Expert's Voice)

2 reviews
Reverend Bill Blunden

Apress, 2003

An Inmate's View of Life in an IT Dungeon
Software Exorcism is a mind-dump by an experienced maintenance programmer. Bill Blunden lists all the horrendous coding techniques he's come across in commercial software, while offering detailed tips on debugging and optimizing code. The very useful code examples are written in C++, C or assembly language, mostly on an Intel platform. The aim of the book is to help computer science and ...