I contributed to a groundup rewrite of one of fiss flagship products named paydirect. Sometimes a rewrite is the best idea, despite what joel said. Why you should almost never rewrite code a graphical guide im by no means the first person to write about the dangers of rewriting code. The impact of the highly improbable by nassim nicholas taleb. In software, that means books like the best software writing, which, though it consists almost entirely of pieces that originally appeared online, is a physical, deadtree book that i liked reading on paper far more than i wouldve on the screen, where i already spend entirely too much of my face time. I have read some many engineering books to improve my career as a software engineer and it helped me a lot. This plugin uses a shortcodelike mechanism for creating a link to a topic for a term on wikipediaw, like so. Incidentally, hes jeff atwoods partner as the cofounder of stackexchange. Joel on software grew quickly and gave me a pulpit where i could write about software development and. If you do rewrite, try to do it one part at a time. A novel about it, devops, and helping your business win. As a software engineer, what are some books that changed. I found a truly wonderful plugin for helping readers learn the terminology used on a web site wikipedia autolink by cristiano fino. Daniel shefer is a software product management professional and has written numerous articles on this topic.
Mostly they are works that have disappeared from the internet, and could no longer be found. Score a books total score is based on multiple factors, including the number of people who have voted for it and how highly those voters ranked the book. Part 2 of 5 this is an old, archived forum, no longer open for new posts. This is not where you add characters for your visual novel, this is for submitting free to use character art for other game creators to share their artwork with the community in the public resources gallery. Released in 2000, it was the first product of fog creek software, the firm joel had recently founded with michael pryor. Netscape wasnt the first company to make this mistake. Big, shiny, sparkly, modern, glass and marble and wood everywhere.
However, if you do find a problem with them, please drop me a line and i will see what i can do to address the problem. Joel has worked at microsoft, where he designed visual basic for applications as a member of the excel team, and at juno online services, developing an internet client used by millions. He said that not only had he been convinced by joel spolsky that rewriting software would kill the company. Software consulting for problems that require more then a basic website to solve. Anything with less than ratings or shelved less than 10 times as computer science, will be removed.
Rewrite is keys ninth game, along with other titles such as kanon, air, and clannad. Joel has worked for microsoft a completely different universe to us and is a name in software. Best popular computer science books on goodreads for purposes of this list, only include books with over 999 ratings and shelved at least 10 times as computer science. Refactor when the code is difficult to understand and the team is not sure of what it does. Iis doesnt have support for rewrite rules, but you can buy software from third parties that will do the job. With a nod to both the serious and funny sides of technical writing, the best software writing i. Of all the open source projects on github, visual studio code is ranked. The following downloads are provided with no warranties expressed or implied.
You may want to peruse youtube channels about software development if you re on the lookout for tutorials. Best popular computer science books on goodreads 122 books. Rewriting the messenger codebase for a faster, smaller, and simpler messaging app. A good deal of software doesnt get examined for security at all, open source or not. Iis, iis7, windows, windows server 2008 r2 ive been setting up wordpress on windows server 2008 r2 lately and as part of trying to understand the issues fully by installing, uninstalling, installing, etc. The team ive put together is brand new and the old team is gone. Joel on software is a mustread for developers, product managers and those who want more insight into the world of developing software. And on diverse and occasionally related matters that will prove of interest to software developers, designers, and managers, and to those who, whether by good fortune or ill luck, work with them in some capacity by joel spolsky. These files describe how to rewrite urls for a site to make them look the way the site administrator or the software being used by the administrator wants them to look. It was released on june 24, 2011 for windows pcs and is rated for. Selected and introduced by joel spolsky is an entertaining read and a guide to the technical writing literati. As an independent, privatelyowned company, weve been making customers happy since the turn of the century. Lessons from 6 software rewrite stories herb caudill medium. User interface design for programmers apress, 2001 and joel on software apress, 2004.
About 30 websites of joelonsoftware at topalternate. We allowed two weeks for rewriting from scratch in ruby. I dont know about other ides, but in visual studio im able to just. Nevertheless, a rewrite sometimes really is the right thing to do. And on diverse and occasionally related matters that will prove of interest to software developers, designers, and managers, and to. It takes marketing, yes, but also sales, and public relations, and an office, and a network, and infrastructure, and air conditioning in the office, and customer service, and accounting, and a bunch of other support tasks.
You re reading joel on software, stuffed with years and years of completely raving mad articles about software development, managing software teams. Piotr uryga has 374 books on goodreads, and is currently reading the black swan. Visual novels, while accessible in terms of ease of play, can be a frustrating thing to create. Its great to rewrite your code and make it cleaner and by the third time itll actually be pretty. Here about 30 popular joel on software, modern community building, old news, rock star developer sites such as joel on software. Heres a quick history of the technology behind joel on software. The list english is a crazy language we drive on parkways and park on driveways. Joel is a spectacular pragmatist and software business owner with deep knowledge.
Being a software developer means you can take a concept, build a team, set up state of the art development processes, design a software product, the right software product, and produce it. As the founder of fog creek software in new york city, he created fogbugz, a popular project management system for software teams. The demonic underworld is held under tight control in a forked version of the buffy universe where the scooby gang all ended up happier and more powerful, and men and women have equal opportunities when it comes to fighting demons. You can create novel objects that have more than one type of object by creating containers and filling that container with whatever objects make sense. A new class of students start the three year demon fighting program in the year of 20142015, while the older scooby gang who are their teachers and mentors have to. Part 3 of 5 this is an old, archived forum, no longer open for new posts. This is the open source of the paper novel lightweight gan for photo animation, which uses the gan framwork to transform realworld photos into anime images. In particular, he was writing this on going series about how bad most user interfaces were mostly because programmers by and large knew, as joel and i would. Dave was the one who convinced me to blog, by blogging himself, and by creating what was, i think, the first public blogging platform at. With a software company, the first priority of management needs to be creating that abstraction for the programmers. The subtitle of the book is two dozen programmers, three years, 4,732 bugs, and one quest for transcendent software. Have a unique problem that requires a unique solution.
Cloudnovel the easiest and most powerful visual novel maker. Now, given that this was written back in 2000 a lot of people will say it is out of date and no longer applicable. So he is probably only used to working with top talent and has probably never seen code as. So you can see that theres a clear line of refactorover rewrite support from the late 90s all the way to 2012, coming from the biggest luminaries in software development. Although this is often used for visual objects, components of ui you can also create non visual components in exactly the same way. When it does, commercial software tends to receive much more qualified attention. A messy, disorganized codebase may make this difficult i. The number of actually novel, nonobvious inventions in the software industry that maybe. Rewrite when it is clear what the code does but it is difficult to understand. Borland made the same mistake when they bought arago and tried to make it into dbase for windows, a doomed project that took so long that microsoft access ate their lunch, then they made it again in rewriting quattro pro from scratch and astonishing people with how few features it had. Frustrated by the lack of wellwritten essays on software engineering, joel spolsky of. The best engines for making your own visual novel pc gamer.
Joel mostly talks about big and mature desktop software big as in microsoft excel. Joel spolsky is the mastermind behind the blog joel on software and hes become one of the triedand true software bloggers. For my day job, im the cofounder and ceo of stack overflow, the largest online community for programmers to learn, share their knowledge, and level up. I would rarely rewrite my own code or the code that my group writes, from scratch. It is slow paced, improves quality with small and constant improvement. It was released on june 24, 2011 for windows pcs and is rated for all ages. Part 5 of 5 this is an old, archived forum, no longer open for new posts. And on diverse and occasionally related matters that will prove of interest to software developers, designers, and managers, and to those who, whether by good fortune or ill luck, work with them in some capacity by it entrepreneur and blogger joel spolsky.
Were republishing it today in case you find yourself with some time on. And on diverse and occasionally related matters that will prove of interest to software developers. Things you should never do, part i 2000 hacker news. The answer to all of these questions is usually no. Almost two decades ago, joel spolsky excoriated netscape for rewriting their.
And on diverse and occasionally related matters that will prove. Software is a conversation, between the software developer and the user. But thats not the pointyoure not here to write code. Why you should almost never rewrite code a graphical. To add characters to your visual novel, go to your dashboard, choose a project and click open project, click on the library tab, and add characters there. These are works of humour by other people that are kept here for posterity.
Way back in 2000, joel spolsky wrote a series of articles on his joel on software blog highly recommended that discussed functional specifications. For software companies, you need to use a different model. Not testing something is equivalent to asserting that its bugfree. As you no doubt know, trello is the amazing visual project management system we developed at fog creek. Paydirect gives such govenment entities as the irs and even local utilities the ability to take echeck, credit card, and other payment types over the web. Your prospective customers start out with no visual image to associate with your company. Lessons from 6 software rewrite stories herb caudill. It is easy to reach shlomi using a large number of online means, including email. The old code was a mess, the new code is structured and thought went into it before implementation instead of after it. Thus, refactoring is the preferred way to incrementally improve the system. The definitive work for me is things you should never do, part i written by joel spolsky in 2000. Each month, more than 40 million professional and aspiring programmers visit stack overflow to ask and answer questions and find better jobs. I also founded fog creek software, one of the most influential small tech companies in the world. If youre a devote follower of joel, like me, theres almost nothing here that.