Joel on Software - Book Reviews: Joel Spolsky has presented a fantastic bookshelf for programmers. I’ve heard of every book in this list. Someday, I’ll read them all.
So here it is — Joel’s Programmer’s Bookshelf. This is the short list of all the books that I honestly think that every working programmer needs to read, with my own book hidden in there in case you didn’t notice because I get about two bucks if you buy it.
Spolsky’s own book is awfully good.
I read Joel Spolsky's book over the weekend: "User Interface Design for Programmers." This is an excellent guide to usability — for client apps and for Web development. The strength of the book is that it doesn't start by presenting many hard-and-fast rules, but instead concetrates on general concepts that…