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Dreaming in Code was an awful lot of fun, a good uplifting "Chicken Soup for the 3l33t Soul" kinda thing. I bought copies for everyone in my office. On the other hand, the first two chapters (after a strong, catchy Introduction, sigh) are downright painful, any code company that allows loud, messy dogs into the bowels of their austere Rigorium is obviously destined to fail, and what's up with all these girls writing code? I don't know how they do it on the West Coast, but I quote Ed Post's modern classic, "Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal":

"In general:
* No Real Programmer works 9 to 5. (Unless it's the ones at night.)
* Real Programmers don't wear neckties.
* Real Programmers don't wear high heeled shoes.
* Real Programmers arrive at work in time for lunch.
* A Real Programmer might or might not know his wife's name. He does, however, know the entire ASCII (or EBCDIC) code table.
* Real Programmers don't know how to cook. Grocery stores aren't open at three in the morning."

All predjudices aside, no matter how savory, I've got to say any team that couldn't kick out a glorified calender after three years ought give up code authoring and become, say, mercenaries for hire in those delightful colonial shakeouts, or do a 'quarter' in the Sevvostlag acquiring expertise in Siberian tree harvesting, or teach "Coaching Principles and Strategies of Basketball" at the University of Georgia ().

Contains a nice collection of programming quotes from some of the Old Grandmasters, which most CS folk will/should know but might be new to you.