Table of Contents

1. My First BillG Review
2. Finding Great Developers
3. A Field Guide to Developers
4. Three Management Methods (Introduction)
5. The Command and Control Management Method
6. The Econ 101 Management Method
7. The Identity Management Method
8. The Perils of JavaSchools
9. Talk at Yale
10. Advice for Computer Science College Students
11. Font Smoothing, Anti-Aliasing, and Subpixel Rendering
12. A Game of Inches
13. The Big Picture
14. Choices = Headaches
15. It's Not Just Usability
16. Building Communities with Software
17. Martian Headsets
18. Why Are the Microsoft Office File Formats So Complicated?
19. Where There's Muck, There's Brass
20. Evidence-Based Scheduling
21. Strategy Letter VI
22. Can Your Programming Language Do This?
23. Making Wrong Code Look Wrong
24. Foreword to Eric Sink on the Business of Software
25. Foreword to Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality
26. Hitting the High Notes
27. Bionic Office
28. Up the Tata Without a Tutu
29. Simplicity
30. Rub a Dub Dub
31. Top Twelve Tips for Running a Beta Test
32. Seven Steps to Remarkable Customer Service
33. Picking a Ship Date
34. Camels and Rubber Duckies
35. Five Whys
36. Set Your Priorities

About the Author

Joel Spolsky is a globally recognized expert on the software development process. His web site Joel on Software (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 Visual Basic for Applications 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 in computer science from Yale University. Before college, he served in the Israeli Defense Forces as a paratrooper, and he was one of the founders of Kibbutz Hanaton.