Thanks for sharing! I hadn't read that one, but I read Code Complete early in my career and loved it. It's been on my bookshelf forever, but I've only gone back to it a few times. But every time I do, I think, "This is really good! I should re-read this."

I was wondering whatever happened to him because the guys that were popular around his time (Kent Beck, Martin Fowler, Ward Cunningham) all continued writing, even if their popularity waned after the 2000s. But I just never saw anything from McConnell again.

It turns out he quit software to be a financial advisor, which is quite surprising.[0]

[0] https://raindogllc.com/steve-mcconnell-investment-advisor/

I used to take classes from his Construx University school.

I think he made a pile of money, somehow, and does what he wants.

He did a whole bunch of data-mining around COVID: https://stevemcconnell.com/cdc-covid-19-forecast-evaluations...

He wrote several more books (including a sequel/second edition of Code Complete). None of them had the same impact, though: https://stevemcconnell.com/books/

Rapid Development was, in opinion, better than Code Complete, but I was also a manager, by then, and it spoke to me.