Bookmarks tagged “tech”
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Where do These People Get Their (Unoriginal) Ideas? - Joel on Software
Maybe I should call this article “why I should stop reading Upside Magazine”. I really have been trying to stop, but they send it to me for free, and I really needed bathroom reading ma…
Designing for People Who Have Better Things To Do With Their Lives - Joel o
When you design user interfaces, it’s a good idea to keep two principles in mind: Users don’t have the manual, and if they did, they wouldn’t read it. In fact, users can’t r…
Daily Builds Are Your Friend - Joel on Software
In 1982, my family took delivery of the very first IBM-PC in Israel. We actually went down to the warehouse and waited while our PC was delivered from the port. Somehow, I convinced my dad to get t…
Making Wrong Code Look Wrong - Joel on Software
Way back in September 1983, I started my first real job, working at Oranim, a big bread factory in Israel that made something like 100,000 loaves of bread every night in six giant ovens the size of…
Painless Bug Tracking - Joel on Software
TRS-80 Level-I BASIC could only store two string variables, A$ and B$. Similarly, I was born with only two bug-storing-slots in my brain. At any given time, I can only remember two bugs. If you ask…
The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code - Joel on Software
Have you ever heard of SEMA? It’s a fairly esoteric system for measuring how good a software team is. No, wait! Don’t follow that link! It will take you about six years just to understa…
Recruiting the Top 1 Percent - Joel Spolsky - Fog Creek Software - Internsh
There's a better way to find and hire the very best employees.
Create a Language Compiler for the .NET Framework Using C#
Gamasutra - News - Analysis: The Psychology of Immersion in Video Games
Game discussion often revolves around "immersion," but what exactly does that mean? Psychologist and gamer Jamie Madigan takes a look at the complex psychological concepts behind immersion in games.