I’m finding that people who reference Steve McConnell in their blog posts often have something interesting to say, so I’ve added them to my rss reader with a technorati watchlist:

http://www.technorati.com/watchlists/rss.html?wid=60721

I can recommend his http://www.technorati.com/watchlists/rss.html?wid=60721

I can recommend his Rapid Development to any programmer/manager who’s working on a project that’s behind schedule or suffering from irrational expectations (again, basically anyone). If you work in software and you laugh at Dilbert, read Rapid Development.