Dreaming in Code.

The author tells us the story of a group of programmers who are trying to write a killer PIM app, something much better than MS Outlook and Exchange, which is overkill for most small businesses (not to talk about personal use). They are looking to build an open source peer-to-peer application that aspires to be far more flexible than anything else seen yet. But more important, the brains behind the whole operation happens to be none other than Mitch Kapor, the mythical programmer behind Lotus 1-2-3 and the name of the new application is Chandler. In any case, perhaps far more important than the particular story Rosenberg tells us about the experience of programming this particular application it's all the wonderful reflections about the history (and the job) of programming software that he shares with us.

Technical description:
Title: Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software.
Author: Scott Rosenberg.
Publisher: Crown Publishers
Edition: New York (USA), 2007.
Pages: 400 pages, including index.
ISBN: 978-1-4000-8246-9