作者簡介：

Steve Maguire is a

renowned software engineer and author of software engineering topics. He is the author of two books on software development, Writing Solid Code and Debugging the Development Process.

Maguire attended the University of Arizona where he earned with a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering though most of his work has been withcomputer software. Maguire's professional work spans two nations, Japan and the United States.

In the late 1970s, Maguire was active in developing software developer tools and application utilities for the Processor Technology and NorthStar . He also authored a few video games. He went on to develop valFORTH in 1982. He also wrote an award-winning FORTH development system for Atariprogrammers that aided development of high-quality graphics applications and video games.

Maguire went to work for Microsoft in 1986, working on cutting-edge Macintosh applications. He was involved with the development of the Mac version ofMicrosoft Excel and led development of Microsoft's Intel/Macintosh cross-development system. He was, in fact, the driving force behind having Microsoft adopt a cross-platform shared code strategy.

In 1993, Maguire wrote Writing Solid Code, a guide for writing robust and bug-free C code. In 1993, Writing Solid Code won the Software Development Jolt Productivity Award^[1] and awards from the Society for Technical Communication.

While with Microsoft, Maguire was often called upon to help rescue troubled projects. His experience in helping these projects recover led directly to his authorship of Debugging the Development Process, a guide which helps project leads—and developers alike—manage their projects and enjoy their work.Debugging the Development Process won the 1994 Jolt Productivity Award.^[1]

Maguire lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, with his wife, Beth. He is an Executive Vice President for Storm Development, a website development company. They shared their home with two Airedale terriers, Abby and Duncan.

大師寫過兩本書 《Writing solid code》 《Debugging the development process》 可惜啊，先能找到中文版的兩本書，已經被翻譯的面目全非，湊合著看。。書名是在是惡心壞了。。

《編程精粹---Microsoft 編寫優質無錯C程序秘籍》《微軟研發：制勝策略》

搞啥啊，不看原作者，真不知道說的是那本書。。。。