Joel on Software: And on Diverse and Occasionally Related Matters That Will Prove of Interest to Software Developers, Designers, and Managers, and to Those Who, Whether by Good Fortune or Ill Luck, Wo

from kiparsky

You know Spolsky's type, most likely: the extremely well-informed blowhard. He knows a lot, particularly in his specialty, and he's good at seeing connections, so you pay attention to what he says, but you're pretty sure that he's going to say everything with perfect confidence, so everything he ...

from kiparsky

You know Spolsky's type, most likely: the extremely well-informed blowhard. He knows a lot, particularly in his specialty, and he's good at seeing connections, so you pay attention to what he says, but you're pretty sure that he's going to say everything with perfect confidence, so everything he ...

from dishdasha

In this book, Mr Spolsky writes about programming at work. It contains a lot of stuff, but to me personally the most important content is tips and motivation to be a better software developer at work. Giving me a new belief in humanity (this time embellished with the realization that even though ...

from name99

Surprisingly good. I wish I'd read this before I started at Apple. While Joel has little to say on the specifics of how to write code, he has a lot to say, all of it very sensible, on the business-side of programming. What a company should do, whom it should hire, how it should be managed, are al...

from name99

Surprisingly good. I wish I'd read this before I started at Apple. While Joel has little to say on the specifics of how to write code, he has a lot to say, all of it very sensible, on the business-side of programming. What a company should do, whom it should hire, how it should be managed, are al...