Joel on Software (book)
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| Author | Joel Spolsky |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Apress |
| Released | August 2, 2004 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 362 pp |
| ISBN | ISBN 1-59059-389-8 (Paperback) |
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, Work with Them in Some Capacity, or sometimes just Joel on Software is a book by Joel Spolsky, author of a weblog entitled Joel on Software. This book is a complilation of 25 of his articles originally written for the aforementioned weblog written between 2000 and 2004.
[edit] Table of contents
- Introduction
- Choosing a Language
- Back to Basics
- The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code
- The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)
- Painless Functional Specifications
- Painless Software Schedules
- Daily Builds Are Your Friend
- Hard-assed Bug Fixin'
- Five Worlds
- Paper Prototyping
- Don't Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You
- Fire And Motion
- Craftsmanship
- Three Wrong Ideas From Computer Science
- Biculturalism
- Every Crash, Everywhere
- Interviewing
- Incentive Pay Considered Harmful
- Top Five (Wrong) Reasons You Don't Have Testers
- Human Task Switches Considered Harmful
- Things You Should Never Do, Part I
- The Iceberg Secret, Revealed
- The Law of Leaky Abstractions
- Lord Palmerston on Programming
- Measurement
- Foreword to "In Search of Stupidity"
- What is the Work of Dogs in this Country?
- Getting Things Done When You're Only a Grunt
- Two Stories
- Big Macs vs. The Naked Chef
- Nothing is as Simple as it Seems
- In Defense of Not-Invented-Here Syndrome
- Strategy Letter I: Ben and Jerry's vs. Amazon
- Strategy Letter II: Chicken and Egg Problems
- Strategy Letter III: Let Me Go Back!
- Strategy Letter IV: Bloatware and the 80/20 Myth
- Strategy Letter V: The Economics of Open Source
- Murphy's Law Gone Wild
- How Microsoft Lost the API War
- Microsoft Goes Bonkers
- Our .NET Strategy
- Please Sir, May I Have a Linker?
- The Best of Ask Joel
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