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After earning undergraduate degrees in chemistry and chemical engineering (on top of pre-college machine shop and lab tech experience), I became an expert at writing tool interfacing applications to address production and engineering needs. After 14 years with IBM manufacturing (during which time I completed a Master's Degree in Computer Science) and 3 years with Applied Materials (as the sole Ion Implant embedded software support engineer in the US), I spent 2001 through 2008 as an automation engineer with
Finding help can seem difficult when code is not easily understood by others. Giving code a second look after the dust has settled, and being familiar with how programmers learn new code - goes far in enabling new people and/or contractors to offload your legacy maintenance burden.
Spanning technology, project management, people, workplaces, and yes even physical conditioning - my goal is to distill off the top of my experiences and boil down as simply and concisely as I can - those aspects of software development that are critical for a career in the field which are often overlooked in other books. Hopefully some of what is in this book might help you think out your own philosophies, think over your environment, get through your working years - and emerge a sane if not wiser person o