The Developers

By Ben Woods

Matt Severnson has assembled a team of quasi-geek individuals to build a revolutionary city-based website. The system becomes a hit, although fast food addiction, incessant sexual tension and heated... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0976432285
• ISBN13: 9780976432289
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Benjamin A Woods
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.8" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

Great book to make you laugh

Whether you are a star trek geek or a basic internet user, you'll find Ben's book fantastic. It's a great mix of tongue in cheek humor and techno speak coupled with great dialog and well defined characters. My favorite line is on page 93 "People online are crazy," Kevin said "Haven't you learned anything?" Pick one up for the social networker in your family and you can't go wrong.

Have some character

Who doesn't love reviews? Probably the people who don't like to avoid work. If you like to avoid work, I suggest that you kill yourself quickly, otherwise your personal growth will stagnate and you'll feel dead for the rest of your life; then, you'll make others take responsibility for your choice to avoid work, and I'll probably sleep with your ignored partner. If you do like work, then get to it; stop reading reviews and start reading The Developers!

The Developers will toy with your emoticons! ;->

The Developers project .comU is the most exciting thing to happen in Michigan's U.P. since the discovery of copper. OK, that's not too hard to beat, and there hasn't been any competition since they built the Mackinac Bridge, but it's a pretty good read. The 80's pop references definitely hit the mark with whatever you call the generation that preceded Generation X. Now that I think about it, I guess that makes us Generation IX. Reading this book is the second best thing to do in front of a nice cozy fire...

Pop culture makes this book one to read!

I've never read a book that used pop culture as a way of explaining the characters and the environment around them. This book uses pop culture in a humorous and descriptive way. If you were born in the 70s,80s, or 90s, you'll pick up all the references and you'll be amused by the way the characters come alive as your friends or people you went school with because you'll recall what you saw happen in the world, what movies impacted you, what tv shows affected culture. This book is not just for computer nerds for sure. It's a good find and it's original, at least in my library.

An escape

This book is a great escape. It ties in the present and future of technology in an exciting story plot of everyday characters. Throughout the reading, one will pulled through a world where technology and computers are the focus but allows the reader to enter into a world that may be unfamiliar to them. Along with the "real-world" technology situations through the developing company, the reader is also introduced to each character's personality. There is something for everyone in the novel. I very much enjoyed this novel and would recommend it to everyone!