The book is directed, as the title indicates, at a variety of different people, from pure coders to codeless managers, but mostly people who are somewhere in between. Before college, he served in the israeli defense forces as a paratrooper, and he was one of the founders of kibbutz hanaton. What are some great game programming books out there. Our teams pick of the best books for software designers and engineers. Watch our overview video on the book of joel, which breaks down the literary design of the book and its flow of thought. We feel it is safe to say that this is the most useful book. In the fastphased technological world, it becomes utmost important to rely on a custom software development that provides the right medium to achieve productive results of exceptional quality. With the success of joel on software, there has been a strong demand for additional gems and advice, and this book is the answer to those requests. All programmers, all people who want to enhance their knowledge of programmers, and all who are trying to manage programmers will surely relate to joel s musings. Its also one where there is quite a disconect between the scholarly concensus and what the public believes. The 100 best software design books recommended by jeff atwood, david heinemeier.
Joels book is about more than software design and usercentricity. There are maybe 40 posts and the book is about 350 pages. This book covers every imaginable aspect of softward programming, from the best way to write a code to the best way to design an office in with to write a code. Joel on software is a collection of joels blog posts. He was a program manager on the microsoft excel team between 1991 and 1994. Best joel commentaries updated for 2020 best bible. Further thoughts 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 by avram joel spolsky.
Goodreads members who liked joel on software also liked. Each month, more than 40 million professional and aspiring programmers visit stack overflow to ask and answer questions and find better jobs. One of the best contemporary books on software engineering. This is how it turned out i should warn you that this is a straight recording. Containing a collection of allnew articles from the original, more joel on software has even more of an edge than the original, and the tips for running a business or managing people have far broader application than the software industry. Find books like joel on software from the worlds largest community of readers.
Get the best deal by comparing prices from over 100,000 booksellers. I also founded fog creek software, one of the most influential small tech companies in the world. As an independent, privatelyowned company, weve been making customers happy since the turn of the century. Joel has an opinion on everything and a fairly strong one. In this brief book, joel reveals all his secretsfrom his years at microsoft, and as the cofounder of fog creek software for recruiting the best. Gates has recommended 186 books on his blog since jan.
I am following his recommendations for getting the right resource to do the job. Joel holds a bachelors of science degree in computer science from yale university. Jessica livingston, partner, y combinator and author of founders at work available from or your favorite bookstore. Making all posts independent makes it easy to pick up the book every now and then, read one, and move on. Joel on software and on diverse and occasionally related. Best software writing joel spolsky thats right, joel now. Since it would be meaningless to rank them because of how different they are, here are the six best blogs for a software developer in the order i discovered them. The joel test for programmers the simple programmer test a while backthe year 2000 to be exact joel spolsky wrote a blog post entitled. First published in 2004, joel on software contains 45 of the best articles from the site, from the early rants about hitandrun management to the 2004 classic. You can find the best commentary on joel for you using the tools on the right side.
If you have suggestions for other books that would benefit people in software business, please post them in comments, and i will update the additional list at the end. His insights on hiring should be read by anyone who has to hire programmers. Joel on software this is a great blog to get started reading software blogs. There is no book for gsoc, you just need to have programming skills related to your project youre willing to apply. In this brief book, joel reveals all his secretsfrom his years at microsoft, and as the cofounder of fog creek software for recruiting the best developers in the world. With joels newest book, more joel on software, youll get an even better not.
Also, have you ever considered condensing your blog entries into a joel on software style book. First published in 2004, joel on software contains 45 of the best articles from the site, from the early rants about hitandrun management to the 2004 classic how microsoft lost the api war, and everything in between. First of all, to fully enjoy the book i feel like i have to read it in tiny tiny chunks to let the content sink in, thus its taking forever to get through it. Joel on software covers every conceivable aspect of software programmingfrom the best way to write code, to the best way to design an office in which to write code. We asked our team to recommend one or two of their favourite books on software design and engineering. This form of decision making was the best way to get the right. Books recommended by joel spolsky software developer, ceo stack exchange network, cofounder fog creek software and trello. Software architecture is the set of design decisions which, if made incorrectly, may cause your project to be cancelled. For years, joel spolsky has done exactly this at now, for. 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 heres a link to the book. In his new afterword, best uses examples from recent policy debates to reflect on the challenges to improving statistical literacy. Since its publication ten years ago, damned lies and statistics has emerged as the goto. Many software engineers and developers use this test for evaluating a company to determine if a company is a good company to work for.
The joel test for programmers the simple programmer test. Avram joel spolsky born 1965 is a software engineer and writer. Here, by popular demand, is the updated edition to joel best s classic guide to understanding how numbers can confuse us. Containing a collection of allnew articles from the original, more joel on software has even more of an edge than the original, and the tips for running a business or managing people have far. Still, we are quite convinced his blog deserves to be on our list of top software development blogs. He is the author of joel on software, a blog on software development, and the creator of the project management software trello. The main point of that book was that when you add more programmers to a late project, it gets even later. See all books authored by joel best, including social problems, and damned lies and statistics. User interface design for programmers apress, 2001 and joel on software apress, 2004. It has gone through ten printings and remains a bestseller today. Meals and desserts food matters more joel on software. Joel recognizes this and gives solid and honest nononsense advices. Net questions citydesk user interface design for programmers by joel spolsky wednesday, october 24, 2001 printer friendly version chapter 1.
Joel spolsky since the release of the bestselling title joel on software in 2004, requests for a sequel have been relentless. You will also find options for commentaries on joel that help pastors, teachers, and readers with application of the bible, commentaries that approach the scripture versebyverse, classic christian commentaries, and much more. Id say this is ideal for a sixth grader who is literate around. User interface design for programmers apress, 2001 and. Untangling numbers from the media, politicians, and activists, and more on. The ultimate developers reading list the reading room medium. Book cover of avram joel spolsky more joel on software. The book spans a broad field and its obvious that many things, like the location of your company, are beyond the control of most managers and technical interviewers.
His blog joel on software is an excellent collection of articles for programmers, managers, startups and ceos. So, we went back to the famed archives and pulled out a new batch. Joel spolsky spolsky, joel used books, rare books and new books. For my day job, im the cofounder and ceo of stack overflow, the largest online community for programmers to learn, share their knowledge, and level up. He has written five books for developers and, in the year 2000, started joel on software, a cleanly written and often funny blog that has addressed key issues in the tech business and delivers. Book cover of martin kleppmann designing dataintensive. Scott berkun is a lot of things besides a software developer and does most of his writings on other topics. Joel spolsky is one of the most thoughtful writers on software development. In joel s new book, think better, live better, he offers a simple yet lifechanging strategy for erasing the thoughts that keep you down and reprogramming your mind with positive thinking to reach a new level of victory. We share what weve learned about how to make great software, both by writing about our ideas and by creating products, like fogbugz, trello and gomix, that help others make great technology. Books recommended by joel spolsky bookadvice reading list. He is the author of joel on software, a blog on software development, and the creator of the project. Joel spolsky needs no introduction in technology startup world. But if you havent been reading joel spolskys books or blog, you probably dont know how to find them and make them want to work for you.
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