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Recommending the Recommendation

Artyom Desyatnikov

title. going to explore the book...

the best software writing i

by Joel Spolsky
recommendation of best writing on software development. i'll be forwarding this recommendation to you. questions - feel free to interrupt me. even do feel obliged. i'll need assistance

Points

  • Introduction by Joel Spolsky
  • Style is Substance by Ken Arnold
  • Award for The Silliest User Interface: Windows Search by Leon Bambrick
  • The Pitfalls of Outsourcing Programmers by Michael Bean
covering these topics let's begin with an Introduction

Introduction

  • Value of stories
  • Especially in IT books
tells a story himself. refused to recommend. idea of creating a collection of posts to serve as an example of how the books should be written the book is full of amusing masterpieces pinpointing problems in IT in a truly hilarious way

Style is Substance

by Ken Arnold
  • Python indentation as an example
  • Not style but the unity of it
  • Enforcing in grammar
The Java Programming Language co-author. programming equivalent of TV-wrestling coding style wars. whitespaces that mattered in fortran. then everyone remembered they should not. and that's not true. suggesting enforcing. too tolerant

It's Bob's Time

by Leon Bambrick
author programming theorist and pugilist. oracle. very short of an article. featuring some good parody on some bad ms ui design

THE PITFALLS OF OUTSOURCING PROGRAMMERS

by Michael Bean
  • Shoe factory inspiration
  • Ability to innovate
  • Confuse chocolates with boxes
author dev and enterpreneur. very rare combination. worked at MIT. president of some IT company. essentially good idea comes to wrong heads at wrong times. core software production. not being able to innovate. following the advice of Joel, story. Jean-Marc, chocolates.

Points Once Again

  • Introduction by Joel Spolsky
  • Style is Substance by Ken Arnold
  • Award for The Silliest User Interface: Windows Search by Leon Bambrick
  • The Pitfalls of Outsourcing Programmers by Michael Bean
book permeated with joel's famous playfulness and irony and scepticism. touching vital IT problems you've rarely thought of as problems

the best software writing i

by Joel Spolsky
only part of book. continuing my journey through it. and so i recommend to you as well.

THE END

Recommending the Recommendation Artyom Desyatnikov title. going to explore the book...