Painless Software Management
Copyright 1999-2006 Joel Spolsky.
And despite the fact that CS115 didn?t count towards the major, all this experience writing about slightly technical topics turned out to be the most useful thing I got out of the CS department.
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Juno was founded by very young, very inexperienced people?the president of the company was 24 years old and it was his first job, not just his first management job?and somewhere in a book or a movie or a TV show he had gotten the idea that managers exist to DECIDE.
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Apparently?and this is all based on blog rumors and innuendo?Microsoft has had a long term policy of eliminating all software testers who don?t know how to write code, replacing them with what they call SDETs, Software Development Engineers in Test, programmers who write automated testing scripts.
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The Fog Creek office : 98 out of 100. ("Most errands can be accomplished on foot and many people get by without owning a car.") Conclusion: Ditch your car, work at Fog Creek.
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Before you try hotels, look for libraries, museums, and universities: many of went into debt building beautiful, modern lecture halls and now they?re trying to rent them out to pay for all that nice blond wood paneling and the 265 built-in powered Bose speakers.
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A "picture function" is a function that looks like a picture of what it generates, e.g.: Sub MakeTitle( s ) %> <title> <% =encode(s) %> </title> <% End Sub Visit the Joel on Software Job Board : Great software jobs, great people.
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A good way to defend yourself against this is to deliver lots and lots of interim versions to the client: real, working interim versions, and get them using it so you can build feedback into future iterations. The Fog Creek website, which far fewer people ever visit, is about the company itself.
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