I.M. Wright's Hard Code: A Decade of Hard-Won Lessons from Microsoft (2nd Edition) (Developer Best Practices)
Eric Brechner, Director of Development Excellence at Microsoft Corporation, has more than two decades experience in the software industry. He began writing “Hard Code” in 2001 as a resource for Microsoft employees. Since then, the opinion column has ignited an ongoing discussion of best practices among the thousands of software development engineers at Microsoft—and now, to the rest of the development community.