If I Only Changed the Software, Why is the Phone on Fire?

Former EDN sister publication ECN had a nice book review back in July about a book that details the difficulties and joys of embedded system development. I was especially delighted to find out that the book is published by EDN’s parent company Elsevier. The wrap-up page is here and that page points to two pdf chapters you can read, the forward is here and chapter one is here. Since this came out in July can you tell that I am finally getting caught up with all those pages I ripped out in order to remind me to blog about them? Happy holidays.