Agreed about Joel. When I first read his "corpus", it was already a few years old. But whenever you get to it, get to it. My only complaint is that once you

Agreed about Joel. When I first read his "corpus", it was already a few years old. But whenever you get to it, get to it. My only complaint is that once you find some really good writing in this field, you realize how hard it is to come by (in print, anyway). I happened to find "Joel on Software" in the "Professional Computing" section at Barnes & Noble. That and "Coders at Work" are the only books worth reading I've ever seen in decades of browsing that section. Still, I'm glad I came across them.