The Best Software Writing I: Selected and Introduced by Joel Spolsky
Avram Joel Spolsky, "The Best Software Writing I: Selected and Introduced by Joel Spolsky"
English | 2005 | ISBN: 1590595009 | PDF | pages: 304 | 2.5 mb
English | 2005 | ISBN: 1590595009 | PDF | pages: 304 | 2.5 mb
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
- 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 Swart
- Clay Shirky
- Eric Sink
- why the lucky stiff