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Contents of Joel on Software, the Book

By Joel Spolsky
Thursday, August 19, 2004

Contents of the Joel on Software book:

Introduction (all new!)
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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Contents of Joel on Software, the Book

By Joel Spolsky Thursday, August 19, 2004

By Joel Spolsky
Thursday, August 19, 2004