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- By: Joel Spolsky
- ISBN10: 1-59059-500-9
- ISBN13: 978-1-59059-500-8
- 328 pp.
- Published Jun 2005
- Price: $24.99
- eBook Price: $17.49
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The Best Software Writing I: Selected and Introduced by Joel Spolsky
— Meryl K. Evans, meryl.net & Slashdot Contributor
...an entertaining read with a number of enlightening insights into what I do for a living...
— Thomas Duff, Duffbert's Random Musings
The whole book is fantastic though, and you should absolutely pick it up...in dead tree form.
— Garrett Rooney, Software Engineer and Author
This is a book worth checking out, even if you're not a software developer.
— David Bindel, Tea Total
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
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Author Information
Joel Spolsky
Joel Spolsky is a globally recognized expert on the software development process. His web site Joel on Software (www.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 VBA 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 from Yale in computer science. Before college, he served in the Israeli Defense Forces as a paratrooper, and he was one of the founders of Kibbutz Hanaton.