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The Best Software Writing I

Selected and Introduced by Joel Spolsky

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  • © 2005

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  1. Joel Spolsky
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  • Will appeal to the same (large) audience as Joel on Software

  • Contains exclusive commentary by Joel

  • Lots of free publicity both because of Joel’s influence in the community and the influence of the contributors

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Table of contents (29 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Style is Substance

    • Ken Arnold
    Pages 1-6

  3. Award for the Silliest User Interface: Windows Search

    • Leon Bambrick
    Pages 7-8

  4. The Pitfalls of Outsourcing Programmers

    • Michael Bean
    Pages 9-15

  5. Excel as a Database

    • Rory Blyth
    Pages 17-21

  6. ICSOC04 Talk

    • Adam Bosworth
    Pages 23-33

  7. Autistic Social Software

    • Danah Boyd
    Pages 35-45

  8. Why Not just Block the Apps that Rely on Undocumented Behavior?

    • Raymond Chen
    Pages 47-50

  9. Kicking the Llama

    • Kevin Cheng, Tom Chi
    Pages 51-51

  10. Save Canada’s Internet from WIPO

    • Cory Doctorow
    Pages 53-58

  11. EA: The Human Story

    • ea_spouse
    Pages 59-65

  12. Strong Typing vs. Strong Testing

    • Bruce Eckel
    Pages 67-77

  13. Processing Processing

    • Paul Ford
    Pages 79-93

  14. Great Hackers

    • Paul Graham
    Pages 95-109

  15. The Location Field is the New Command Line

    • John Gruber
    Pages 111-117

  16. Starbucks Does Not Use Two-Phase Commit

    • Gregor Hohpe
    Pages 119-124

  17. Passion

    • Ron Jeffries
    Pages 125-128

  18. C++—The Forgotten Trojan Horse

    • Eric Johnson
    Pages 129-133

  19. How Many Microsoft Employees Does it Take to Change a Lightbulb?

    • Eric Lippert
    Pages 135-138

  20. What to Do When You’re Screwed

    • Michael “Rands” Lopp
    Pages 139-149
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About this book

Frustrated by the lack of well-written essays on software engineering, Joel Spolsky (of www.joelonsoftware.com fame) has put together a collection of his favorite writings on the topic.

With a nod to both the serious and funny sides of technical writing, The Best Software Writing I: Selected and Introduced by Joel Spolsky is an entertaining read and a guide to the technical writing literati.

The Best Software Writing I contains writings from:

  • Ken Arnold
  • Leon Bambrick
  • Michael Bean
  • Rory Blyth
  • Adam Bosworth
  • danah boyd
  • Raymond Chen
  • Kevin Cheng and Tom Chi
  • Cory Doctorow
  • ea_spouse
  • Bruce Eckel
  • Paul Ford
  • Paul Graham
  • John Gruber
  • Gregor Hohpe
  • Ron Jeffries
  • Eric Johnson
  • Eric Lippert
  • Michael Lopp
  • Larry Osterman
  • Mary Poppendieck
  • Rick Schaut
  • Aaron Swartz
  • Clay Shirky
  • Eric Sink
  • why the lucky stiff

About the author

Joel Spolsky is a globally recognized expert on the software development process. His web site Joel on Software (JoelonSoftware.com) is popular with software developers around the world and has been translated into over 30 languages. As the founder of Fog Creek Software in New York City, he created FogBugz, a popular project management system for software teams. Joel has worked at Microsoft, where he designed Visual Basic for Applications as a member of the Excel team, and at Juno Online Services, developing an Internet client used by millions. He has written two books: User Interface Design for Programmers (Apress, 2001) and Joel on Software (Apress, 2004). Joel holds a bachelor's of science degree in computer science from Yale University. Before college, he served in the Israeli Defense Forces as a paratrooper, and he was one of the founders of Kibbutz Hanaton.

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