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Joel on Software

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Choosing a Language
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    Chapter 2 Back to Basics
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    Chapter 3 The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code
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    Chapter 4 The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know about Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)
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    Chapter 5 Painless Functional Specifications Part 1: Why Bother?
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    Chapter 6 Painless Functional Specifications Part 2: What’s a Spec?
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    Chapter 7 Painless Functional Specifications Part 3: But … How?
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    Chapter 8 Painless Functional Specifications Part 4: Tips
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    Chapter 9 Painless Software Schedules
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    Chapter 10 Daily Builds are Your Friend
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    Chapter 11 Hard-Assed Bug Fixin’
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    Chapter 12 Five Worlds
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    Chapter 13 Paper Prototyping
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    Chapter 14 Don’t Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You
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    Chapter 15 Fire and Motion
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    Chapter 16 Craftsmanship
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    Chapter 17 Three Wrong Ideas from Computer Science
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    Chapter 18 Biculturalism
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    Chapter 19 Get Crash Reports from Users-Automatically!
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    Chapter 20 The Guerilla Guide to Interviewing
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    Chapter 21 Incentive Pay Considered Harmful
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    Chapter 22 Top Five (Wrong) Reasons You don’t have Testers
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    Chapter 23 Human Task Switches Considered Harmful
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    Chapter 24 Things You should Never do, Part One
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    Chapter 25 The Iceberg Secret, Revealed
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    Chapter 26 The Law of Leaky Abstractions
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    Chapter 27 Lord Palmerston on Programming
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    Chapter 28 Measurement
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    Chapter 29 Rick Chapman is in Search of Stupidity
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    Chapter 30 What is the Work of Dogs in This Country?
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    Chapter 31 Getting Things Done when You’re Only a Grunt
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    Chapter 32 Two Stories
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    Chapter 33 Big Macs vs. the Naked Chef
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    Chapter 34 Nothing is as Simple as It Seems
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    Chapter 35 In Defense of Not-Invented-Here Syndrome
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    Chapter 36 Strategy Letter I: Ben & Jerry’s vs. Amazon
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    Chapter 37 Strategy Letter II: Chicken-and-Egg Problems
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    Chapter 38 Strategy Letter III: Let Me Go Back!
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    Chapter 39 Strategy Letter IV: Bloatware and the 80/20 Myth
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    Chapter 40 Strategy Letter V: The Economics of Open Source
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    Chapter 41 A Week of Murphy’s Law Gone Wild
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    Chapter 42 How Microsoft Lost the API War
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    Chapter 43 Microsoft Goes Bonkers
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    Chapter 44 Our .NET Strategy
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    Chapter 45 Please Sir May I Have a Linker?
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Title
Joel on Software
Published by
Apress, August 2004
DOI 10.1007/978-1-4302-0753-5
ISBNs
978-1-4302-0753-5, 978-1-59059-389-9
Authors

Joel Spolsky, Spolsky, Avram Joel, Spolsky, Joel

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 2 5%
United States 2 5%
Portugal 1 2%
Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of 1 2%
Unknown 37 86%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Other 9 21%
Student > Master 5 12%
Student > Bachelor 4 9%
Researcher 4 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 9%
Other 8 19%
Unknown 9 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Computer Science 17 40%
Social Sciences 4 9%
Engineering 3 7%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 5%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 1 2%
Other 6 14%
Unknown 10 23%