I hate Joel Spolsky. First he talked about the perfect office he implemented for his software consulting company. An office that I want so much but am unlikely to ever be able to create or work in. And now, every time he reviews a book he makes me want that too. And I don’t have the cash for any of this!! *pouts*
All jokes aside, the book Joel is talking about this month looks an absolute jem. A collection of all the proven realities of software engineering .. what goes wrong, over and over again. And in case you’re one of those naive developers who thinks that corporations and development teams alike must have learnt these lessons by now … trust me, they haven’t. Despite Brooks’ best attempts people are still added to late projects (making them later), users are still not involved in development early enough and all other manner of stupid mistakes are still made, all the time.
It’s definitely made my Xmas list … if only I could make all the software developers and managers in the world read it as well!
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November 17th, 2003 at 10:38 PM
That office is just way too clever. And way cool! One way to get to work in it is to get yourself hired by him if you ever leave P&G. 🙂
November 18th, 2003 at 8:42 AM
Unfortunately because of my suitability for less technical work I doubt I’d be able to keep the coding standard he’d require up … unless I took 6 months out to just get myself properly technical again before applying there 😉
November 18th, 2003 at 1:21 PM
I wanna work there, I wanna work there!
*goes off in a huff*
But seriously, it does look like a pretty cool place to work. What with the TV and stuff, all it needs now is a few good beanbags, and I’d be sorted for life.