Historical errata for My Job Went to India

The PDF outline is wrongly nested, it shows the first chapter of each section as a container with the following chapters within.

For example, for Part IV, the outline shows:

+ Marketing…Not Just for Suits
+ Perceptions, Perschmeptions
Adventure Tour Guide
Me Rite Reel Nice
.
.
.

This happens at least when viewing the PDF with Preview on Mac OS X Tiger. I haven’t tried Adobe Reader.

In the entry for [Pir00], the word “edition” is repeated.

solftware (software)
Chapter 13 first paragraph
Speaking to puppets and other inanimate objects as a method of
problem solving is a fairly well-known element of solftware development
folklore.

Third part, second paraghraph, second sentence: “And you aren’t you getting paid to be a leading expert in the latest technology.” One “you” too much?

Phillipines should be spelled Philippines.

In last paragraph, “in many organization” should be “in many organizations”.

Point #4, Last Sentence: “How do you get find recognition in both . . ” I think you meant to write either “get recognition” or “find recognition”

In the second paragraph, third last line reads “with a an overlow of artsians” but should read “with an overflow of artisans.”

Second paragraph, first line “shouldn’t” is spelt wrong (“shoudn’t”).

Second paragraph, third line: “We also tend to believe who project work…” probably should read “We also tend to believe project work…”

Fifth paragraph, third line: “suprise” should be “surprise”

Third paragraph: s/abiilty/ability/

The sentence beginning in line 14 should start with “Share the output come your questionaire …”

Subtract 10 from the hyphenated word in the second line of the second paragraph

[DL99] I believe that Tom DeMarco has a capital M in his name.

[Sil99] The middle initial of Mr. Silbiger should probably get a full-stop. (There is a third edition as per Nov 2005.)

Third paragraph, fifth line: s/goobye/goodbye/

Penultimate paragraph, second sentence: “When the pressure is on, a smart businessperson will turn to a software professional can solve the problem at hand” should, it seems, read: “When the pressure is on, a smart businessperson will turn to a software professional who can solve the problem at hand”.

First paragraph (from prev. page), “4. Market! … How do you get find recognition…”
“How do you get recognition…”
“How do you find recognition…”
“How do you get or find recognition…”

Third paragraph, “tight reigns” should be “tight reins”.

End of line 4: “at best we’d have ended up in a fender bender or three”

Shouldn’t it read “… ended up in a fender bender or tree”.

tree != three

Missing blank after question mark:

“my ASP.NET pages?Why do”

in the PDF bookmarks: each chapter after the first in a Part is erroneously a child of the first chapter, rather than the Part. This is the same error which afflicts the current edition of RailsRecipes.

It really isn’t a very good from this side of the street either.

Though the caste system is officially dead in India, the hierarchical
thinking it imposed lives on in the hearts and minds of its citizens.

grammatical error (?):

through at least one cycle of the plan through

“This part will help you …” would be better written “This part of the book will help you …”

Incomplete sentence. “Other process disciplines that can set the course for a software
project.”

“Now, of course, I’m not completely
guilt-free here myself. I’ve been this guy myself to some extent.”

Maybe take out the first “myself”. Sounds awkward with two “myself”s close to each other.

In the second line from the top, “(maybe /most/)” should get rid of the trailing space.

Second paragraph: “India’s Silicon Valley bursting at its seams with an overflow”, i.e., delete the single “a”.

Second line of second paragraph: “function and structure”, i.e., insert missing “r” in “stucture”.

In the second paragraph, the italicised “before” is followed by more than one space character.

Second paragraph, third line: “It isn’t a very good [view point] from this side of the street either.”

First line: s/controvery/controversy/

First line: Remove the spurious comma between “the most important” and “aspect”.

Fifth paragraph: “more than half of [all responding] companies”.

Next to last line in the second paragraph: s/GPU/CPU/

Next to last line of the second paragraph: “a lot of our actions”.

Next to last line of the next to last paragraph: “these first four pages paint a picture”.

Last line of fourth paragraph: Remove spurious comma in the quoted sentence “I want to be a CEO!”.

In just the first three months of 2005, U.S. techology companies …

techology -> technology

If the Python job market were to support noticably higher prices perprogrammer, …

noticably -> noticeably

I was terribly disppointed by his answer:

disppointed -> disappointed

The mentor-to-mentee bond is a strong one, so the links in this kind of professional network are stronger than those of more passive acquaintences.

acquaintence -> acquaintance

There

At design reviews and status meetings in the office, you

The ones you

He cherry-picks work that he thinks, even if subconciously, is in tune with his level and might get him closer to his goal of the next promotion.

subconciously -> subconsciously

Developers in India or the Phillipines don

We dodged buffalo in the street and begrudingly yielded to rickety bicycles and full families on single mopeds.

begrudingly -> begrudgingly

More and more business is being shipped to Eastern Europe (where it

And, without the bureacracy of a full-blown project underway, you

A hidden advantage of doing maintanence work is that, unlike the contractual environment of many of today

And, we all implicitly express a great deal of content in our facial expressions without even conciously realizing it.

conciously -> consciously

I had the opportunity to see the Count Basie Jazz Orchestra perform an outdoor concert at an ampitheater on the bank of the Arkansas River.

ampitheater -> amphitheater

Going out of their way to make their abiliities known would be brownnosing.

abiliities -> abilities

It

questionaire -> questionnaire

Downloads were so quick that they were unnoticable.

unnoticable -> unnoticeable

However, if you leave and come back in two days, you

What are those values that guide your daily actions without you even conciously knowing it?

conciously -> consciously

the pundits were giddy in anticipation of a solid new contendor on the operating system block.

contendor -> contender

Also, like an alchoholic who slurs his speech even when he

Perhaps unconciously, I sought out the best IT people to work with.

unconciously -> unconsciously

Your presence is a major advantage you have over your offshore brethren.

bretheren -> brethren

I believe the fifth sentence of the second paragraph (“We also tend to believe who project work is the most visible to our organizations.”) could use some reformulation.

This is not only a typo…
I think there should be “gourd” not “ground” in “They would dig a long, narrow hole in the ground and then use an equally long, slender object to widen the bottom of the hole.”
In Pirsig’s book there is “coconut”.

“often put tight reigns on” - third P - I believe the proper word is “rein,” like the reins used to control a horse or other animal.

Bullet list, 3rd item, first sentence:
“your customers did ask for in a way that, unexectedly to you, makes it less functional or desirable to the customer.”

Replace
unexectedly
With
unexpectedly

Interpunction twister in next-to-last line of second paragraph; should be: “in the U.S.,”

“Share your the outcome of your questionaire
with your reviewers”

The first “your” seems unnecessary.
Also think that the right spelling is “questionnaire”

First paragraph, line 4: “emloyees” -> “employees”