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How do the experts solve difficult problems in software development? In thisunique and insightful book, leading computer scientists offer case studies thatreveal how they found unusual, carefully designed solutions to high-profileprojects. You will be able to look over the shoulder of major coding and designexperts to see problems through their eyes.

This is not simply another design patterns book, or another softwareengineering treatise on the right and wrong way to do things. The authors thinkaloud as they work through their project's architecture, the tradeoffs made inits construction, and when it was important to break rules.

This book contains 33 chapters contributed by Brian Kernighan, Karl Fogel, JonBentley, Tim Bray, Elliotte Rusty Harold, Michael Feathers, Alberto Savoia,Charles Petzold, Douglas Crockford, Henry S. Warren, Jr., Ashish Gulhati,Lincoln Stein, Jim Kent, Jack Dongarra and Piotr Luszczek, Adam Kolawa, GregKroah-Hartman, Diomidis Spinellis, Andrew Kuchling, Travis E. Oliphant, RonaldMak, Rogerio Atem de Carvalho and Rafael Monnerat, Bryan Cantrill, Jeff Deanand Sanjay Ghemawat, Simon Peyton Jones, Kent Dybvig, William Otte and DouglasC. Schmidt, Andrew Patzer, Andreas Zeller, Yukihiro Matsumoto, Arun Mehta, TVRaman, Laura Wingerd and Christopher Seiwald, and Brian Hayes.

Beautiful Code is an opportunity for master coders to tell their story. Allauthor royalties will be donated to Amnesty International.