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.