Steve McConnell serves editor-in-chief of IEEE
Software magazine. Steve is the author of Code Complete and Rapid Development,
winners of SoftwarecDevelopment's Jolt award for best software development book
of the year in 1994 and 1997. Steve is the author of the best selling Software
Project Survival Guide (1998) and After the Gold Rush: Creating a True
Profession of Software Engineering (1999). In 1998, readers of Software
Development magazine voted him one of the three most influential people in the
software industry, along with Bill Gates and Linus
Torvalds.