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The Barnes & Noble Review There's been a flowering of great writing about software: deep thinking, and flat-out funny stuff, too. The legendary Joel Spolsky has compiled the best of it, and his comments are as priceless as the writing. Here are Cory Doctorow and Paul Graham, Clay Shirky and Aaron Swartz. Here's Michael Bean on the pitfalls of outsourcing design...and Leon Bambrick's hilarious trashing of Windows Search. Here's Ken Arnold on why coding style should be enforced by compilers...and Rory Blyth wondering how marketers get all that malformatted data into Excel. Here's Danah Boyd explaining why "social software" smacks of autism...and Bruce Eckel on why strong typing ain't all it's cracked up to be. It'll make you think. Sometimes laugh. And, in the case of "ea_spouse" 's chilling essay on life at Electronic Arts, maybe even shed a tear or two. Bill Camarda, from the August 2005 href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/newslet... Only
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Bartholomew Bohuslav
reviewed The best software writing I on April 09, 2010
The best software writing I
Never has a book made the term 'dead tree' seem as true as this one. With minimal work, almost all of the content in this is freely available online, and I would highly recommend reading the introductions on paper, but viewing the pieces themselves in their original hyperlinked state. Cut off from their comments, with references reduced to footnotes rather than links, the writing shrinks. It feels much more alive in the context it was written.
That said, it is a fair collection of diverse and important technological writing. It feels like a good introduction to the online developer community. Someone who has been keeping up with software blogs for any time will already be familiar with some of the material - but that's how a best of collection should be.
at five years, the collection is already showing it's age. It was collected in a pre-iPhone, pre-facebook age. In some ways, this is a little funny, since you know the answers to many of the big questions being discussed. In other ways, it is a valuable snapshot of 2005 - giving perspective on just how fast things are changing in this world.
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