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Book Synopsis

* Covers three years of the best essays.

* Essays range from technical to humorous, but are always tangible.

* Beautifully written and extremely timely.

* Google lists 183,000 links for "Joel on Software".

* Spolsky is one of the most popular programmers around today, with legions of followers.



Table of Contents
  1. Choosing a Language
  2. Back to Basics
  3. The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code
  4. The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)
  5. Painless Functional Specifications Part 1: Why Bother?
  6. Painless Functional Specifications Part 2: What's a Spec?
  7. Painless Functional Specifications Part 3: But . . . How?
  8. Painless Functional Specifications Part 4: Tips
  9. Painless Software Schedules
  10. Daily Builds Are Your Friend
  11. Hard-Assed Bug Fixin'
  12. Five Worlds
  13. Paper Prototyping
  14. Don't Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You
  15. Fire and Motion
  16. Craftsmanship
  17. Three Wrong Ideas from Computer Science
  18. Biculturalism
  19. Get Crash Reports From Users—Automatically!
  20. The Guerilla Guide to Interviewing
  21. Incentive Pay Considered Harmful
  22. Top Five (Wrong) Reasons You Don't Have Testers
  23. Human Task Switches Considered Harmful
  24. Things You Should Never Do, Part One
  25. The Iceberg Secret, Revealed
  26. The Law of Leaky Abstractions
  27. Lord Palmerston on Programming
  28. Measurement
  29. Rick Chapman Is In Search of Stupidity
  30. What Is the Work of Dogs in This Country?
  31. Getting Things Done When You're Only a Grunt
  32. Two Stories
  33. Big Macs vs. The Naked Chef
  34. Nothing Is As Simple As It Seems
  35. In Defense of Not-Invented-Here Syndrome
  36. Strategy Letter I: Ben & Jerry's vs. Amazon
  37. Strategy Letter II: Chicken-and-Egg Problems
  38. Strategy Letter III: Let Me Go Back!
  39. Strategy Letter IV: Bloatware and the 80/20 Myth
  40. Strategy Letter V: The Economics of Open Source
  41. A Week of Murphy's Law Gone Wild
  42. How Microsoft Lost the API War
  43. Microsoft Goes Bonkers
  44. Our .NET Strategy
  45. Please Sir May I Have a Linker?

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      Publisher: APress
      Publication Date: 28/10/2004
      ISBN13: 9781590593899, 978-1590593899
      ISBN10: 1590593898
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      Computing Compilers and interpreters Software Engineering

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      * Covers three years of the best essays.

      * Essays range from technical to humorous, but are always tangible.

      * Beautifully written and extremely timely.

      * Google lists 183,000 links for "Joel on Software".

      * Spolsky is one of the most popular programmers around today, with legions of followers.



      Table of Contents
      1. Choosing a Language
      2. Back to Basics
      3. The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code
      4. The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)
      5. Painless Functional Specifications Part 1: Why Bother?
      6. Painless Functional Specifications Part 2: What's a Spec?
      7. Painless Functional Specifications Part 3: But . . . How?
      8. Painless Functional Specifications Part 4: Tips
      9. Painless Software Schedules
      10. Daily Builds Are Your Friend
      11. Hard-Assed Bug Fixin'
      12. Five Worlds
      13. Paper Prototyping
      14. Don't Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You
      15. Fire and Motion
      16. Craftsmanship
      17. Three Wrong Ideas from Computer Science
      18. Biculturalism
      19. Get Crash Reports From Users—Automatically!
      20. The Guerilla Guide to Interviewing
      21. Incentive Pay Considered Harmful
      22. Top Five (Wrong) Reasons You Don't Have Testers
      23. Human Task Switches Considered Harmful
      24. Things You Should Never Do, Part One
      25. The Iceberg Secret, Revealed
      26. The Law of Leaky Abstractions
      27. Lord Palmerston on Programming
      28. Measurement
      29. Rick Chapman Is In Search of Stupidity
      30. What Is the Work of Dogs in This Country?
      31. Getting Things Done When You're Only a Grunt
      32. Two Stories
      33. Big Macs vs. The Naked Chef
      34. Nothing Is As Simple As It Seems
      35. In Defense of Not-Invented-Here Syndrome
      36. Strategy Letter I: Ben & Jerry's vs. Amazon
      37. Strategy Letter II: Chicken-and-Egg Problems
      38. Strategy Letter III: Let Me Go Back!
      39. Strategy Letter IV: Bloatware and the 80/20 Myth
      40. Strategy Letter V: The Economics of Open Source
      41. A Week of Murphy's Law Gone Wild
      42. How Microsoft Lost the API War
      43. Microsoft Goes Bonkers
      44. Our .NET Strategy
      45. Please Sir May I Have a Linker?

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