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. ...an entertaining read with a number of enlightening insights into what I do for a living... The whole book is fantastic though, and you should absolutely pick it up...in dead tree form. This is a book worth checking out, even if you're not a software developer.

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 contains writings from:

Ken Arnold

Leon Bambrick

Michael Bean

Rory Blyth

Adam Bosworth

danah boyd

Raymond Chen

Kevin Cheng and Tom Chi

Cory Doctorow

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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 Swart

Clay Shirky

Eric Sink

why the lucky stiff

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.