The Software Café: a novel, the story of a young engineer's journey through projects, share houses, love and office politics. A heroic search for the true meaning of software, quality and everything. Well, actually, not everything. The focus is more on lunch, or dinner, or both. The Software Café: an epic set in a time before the internet when software development was a frontier and the map was being drawn in real-time; a reminder of how far we have come and how we have managed to forget so many of the lessons of history along the way.