The Best Software Writing I: Selected and Introduced by Joel Spolsky
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Author: Joel SpolskyEdition: Paperback
Published: 2005-06-20
ISBN: 1590595009
Number of pages: 328
Publisher: Apress
Accessories:
- Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
- Use Case Driven Object Modeling with UMLTheory and Practice
- Practical Subversion, Second Edition (Expert's Voice in Open Source)
Book Reviews of The Best Software Writing I: Selected and Introduced by Joel Spolsky
Book Review: A beautiful collection
Summary: 4 Stars
This book is less to do with Joel and his own writing, but more to do with the wonderful writing of others.
A well researched and nicely put together collections of interesting historical articles on software development. If you enjoy getting into the thoughts and minds behind some of the greats, then this book is certainly for you.
Put together with brief introductions by Joel, this book takes you on a wonderful journey through wonderful writing.
Summary of The Best Software Writing I: Selected and Introduced by Joel Spolsky
It's nice having a collection of high-quality writing related to software and the business in one place instead of trawling the Web for it.
— 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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