Joel Spolsky: Joel on Software (2004) - Table of Contents

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

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• 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 (No Excuse!)
  
• Painless Functional Specifications. Part 1: Why Bother?
  
• Painless Functional Specifications. Part 2: What's a Spec?
  
• Painless Functional Specifications. Part 3: But?How?
  
• Painless Functional Specifications. Part 4: Tips
  
• 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
  

(Managing Developers) Get Crash Reports From User Automatically!

• Every Crash, Everywhere
• The Guerilla Guide to 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 One
  
• The Iceberg Secret, Revealed
  
• The Law of Leaky Abstractions
  
• Lord Palmerston on Programming
  
• Measurement
  

Being Joel: Random Thoughts on Not-So-Random Topics

• Rick Chapman is 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 & 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
  
• A Week of Murphy's Law Gone Wild
  
• How Microsoft Lost the API War
  

A Little Bit Too Much Commentary on .NET

• Microsoft Goes Bonkers
  
• Our .NET Strategy
  
• Please Sir May I Have a Linker
  
• Ask Joel