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| About the Author | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Bits and Bytes: The Practice of Programming | |
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| Choosing a Language | |
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| Back to Basics | |
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| The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code | |
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| The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) | |
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| Painless Functional Specifications Part 1: Why Bother? | |
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| Painless Functional Specifications Part 2: What's a Spec? | |
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| Painless Functional Specifications Part 3: But ... How? | |
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| Painless Functional Specifications Part 4: Tips | |
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| Painless Software Schedules | |
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| Daily Builds Are Your Friend | |
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| Hard-Assed Bug Fixin' | |
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| Five Worlds | |
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| Paper Prototyping | |
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| Don't Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You | |
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| Fire and Motion | |
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| Craftsmanship | |
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| Three Wrong Ideas from Computer Science | |
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| Biculturalism | |
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| Get Crash Reports From Users--Automatically! | |
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| Managing Developers | |
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| The Guerilla Guide to Interviewing | |
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| Incentive Pay Considered Harmful | |
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| Top Five (Wrong) Reasons You Don't Have Testers | |
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| Human Task Switches Considered Harmful | |
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| Things You Should Never Do, Part One | |
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| The Iceberg Secret, Revealed | |
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| The Law of Leaky Abstractions | |
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| Lord Palmerston on Programming | |
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| Measurement | |
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| Being Joel: Random Thoughts on Not-So-Random Topics | |
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| Rick Chapman Is In Search of Stupidity | |
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| What Is the Work of Dogs in This Country? | |
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| Getting Things Done When You're Only a Grunt | |
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| Two Stories | |
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| Big Macs vs. The Naked Chef | |
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| Nothing Is As Simple As It Seems | |
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| In Defense of Not-Invented-Here Syndrome | |
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| Strategy Letter I: Ben & Jerry's vs. Amazon | |
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| Strategy Letter II: Chicken-and-Egg Problems | |
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| Strategy Letter III: Let Me Go Back! | |
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| Strategy Letter IV: Bloatware and the 80/20 Myth | |
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| Strategy Letter V: The Economics of Open Source | |
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| A Week of Murphy's Law Gone Wild | |
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| How Microsoft Lost the API War | |
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| A Little Bit Too Much Commentary on .NET | |
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| Microsoft Goes Bonkers | |
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| Our .NET Strategy | |
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| Please Sir May I Have a Linker? | |
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| Appendix | |
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| The Best of Ask Joel | |
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| Index | |