Joel on Software

Avram JoelSpolsky

• Apress (2004年8月16日発売)

作品紹介・あらすじ

Joel Spolsky began his legendary web log, www.joelonsoftware.com, in March 2000, in order to offer insights for improving the world of programming. Spolsky based these observations on years of personal experience. The result just a handful of years later? Spolsky's technical knowledge, caustic wit, and extraordinary writing skills have earned him status as a programming guru! His blog has become renowned throughout the programming worldnow linked to more than 600 websites and translated into over 30 languages. Joel on Software covers every conceivable aspect of software programming--from the best way to write code, to the best way to design an office in which to write code! All programmers, all people who want to enhance their knowledge of programmers, and all who are trying to manage programmers will surely relate to Joel's musings. Table of Contents * Choosing a Language * Back to Basics * The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code * The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) * Painless Functional Specifications Part 1: Why Bother? * Painless Functional Specifications Part 2: What's a Spec?
* Painless Functional Specifications Part 3: But ...How? * Painless Functional Specifications Part 4: Tips * Painless Software Schedules * Daily Builds Are Your Friend * Hard-Assed Bug Fixin' * Five Worlds * Paper Prototyping * Don't Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You * Fire and Motion * Craftsmanship * Three Wrong Ideas from Computer Science * Biculturalism * Get Crash Reports From Users--Automatically! * The Guerilla Guide to Interviewing * Incentive Pay Considered Harmful * Top Five (Wrong) Reasons You Don't Have Testers * Human Task Switches Considered Harmful * Things You Should Never Do, Part One * The Iceberg Secret, Revealed * The Law of Leaky Abstractions * Lord Palmerston on Programming * Measurement * Rick Chapman Is In Search of Stupidity * What Is the Work of Dogs in This Country? * Getting Things Done When You're Only a Grunt * Two Stories * Big Macs vs. The Naked Chef * Nothing Is As Simple As It Seems * In Defense of Not-Invented-Here Syndrome * Strategy Letter I: Ben & Jerry's vs. Amazon * Strategy Letter II: Chicken-and-Egg Problems * Strategy Letter III: Let Me Go Back!
* Strategy Letter IV: Bloatware and the 80/20 Myth * Strategy Letter V: The Economics of Open Source * A Week of Murphy's Law Gone Wild * How Microsoft Lost the API War * Microsoft Goes Bonkers * Our .NET Strategy * Please Sir May I Have a Linker?

感想・レビュー・書評

[hmk404さんの感想 · 2024年5月7日]

相変わらずのJoel節、という感じで楽しめた。
普段単に技術的な内容を英語で読み書きするだけだと出会さない英単語も多くて探しながら読むことも度々だったけど、Witの効いた、皮肉もありつつ学びもある、そんな内容だった。

権利の関係からか、本家のブログでは使われていた画像が使われていなかったため、そこは本家を見る方が良かったようにも思った。日本語訳版もあるようなので、続編はそっちで読んでもいいかもしれない。

[yamatokanekoさんの感想 · 2014年10月12日]

プロダクトマネージャーとして働く前に「読んどいて」と会社に薦められた本。ブログ掲載記事を集めただけなので、別に順序とか構成とかはバラバラ。でも人のブログ一気読みするの好きな俺とかには凄く楽しかった。興味あるところだけつまんで読めばいいと思う。

デスクが隣の人間にquick questionをするのとググるのはチームとしてどっちが効率的かみたいな話とか、運用始まっちゃった汚いコードについての考え方とか、incentive payについての考え方とか、仕事始める前にも凄く参考になる内容があって面白かった。

多分仕事初めて１年経った今もっかい読み返したらもっと面白いんだろうなー。