last updated:04 Sep 2004 18:08 UK time JOS Statistics - Top 100 Monthly Items Jan 2003 | Dec 2002 | Nov 2002    Number Of Comments God and Computers   127 Marriage == Career Death?   65 Breaking into development without a degree   60 Code Reviews - Does Anyone Actually Do Them   60 Success in Life =   56 Handling the telephone   48 Why some programmers are 2+ times more productive?   44 Intelligence   42 Microsoft College Interview   42 Degrees, Publishing, and Professionality   40 Recycle Bin + Network   40 Hiring   38 Hiring (Again)   37 PHP vs ASP   37 Assembly Language   37 Mr. Moneybags   34 Swing UI?   34 Overseas Outsourcing...   33 Similarities between Prostitution and Programming   33 strategies for coping with burnout?   32 Joel on the Economy and the Job Market   31 Non .Net Language to use for new project   30 Which language will supersede C/C++ ?   30 Alternative degrees   29 Version control system in a one-man project?   27 Coding != Software Development   27 Looking smart   27 Career Path for Programmers.   25 A New Take on Music Piracy   25 Hey Joel, ever hear of Flash?   24 Naked Objects   24 Instant Messenger Services   22 If you could do it all over again...   22 Documentation   22 Joel Says:   22 "LongHorn" - Nest generation Windows OS   22 Did you stake your claim in the Wild west?   21 Memory caching and synchronization   21 Bella.  What's the source of your negativism?   21 Interviewing Tips   20 Back to the green screen   20 Your favorite tool to develop web apps?   19 Java GUI's   18 Raider's from Within   17 Should I be a Programmer?   17 Theories on why programming is hard   17 "Lord Palmerston...", Specialist v. Generalist   17 Reverse Engineering Database Design   17 When are web-based apps not recommended?   17 Office space specifications.   16 Why all the flame wars?   16 Protecting shareware   16 changing skill sets   16 Selection and the current market   16 time management books/help?   16 Designing a numbering scheme for a knowledge base   16 Best Organizer/PIM   15 Promoting software   15 Fundemental Laws of Software Development part 2   15 Do you work this time of year?   14 How to finance application development?   14 The real benefits of EJB?   14 Peeved too...   14 Recruitment is just like dating   14 Leaky Abstractions   14 Living and Working in a Techie Backwater?   13 CVS   13 Motivational Speakers   13 No more OS/2   13 Explorer or Yahoo-ish heirarchy representation?   13 advanced degrees outside the U.S.   13 What IS that picture on home page?   13 Micro Pros WordStar Printer disaster – really?   13 Enterprise app. languages   13 VB6/ATL or .NET for shrink-wrap software?   12 Bad Code Revue   12 Natural Selection applied to business   12 Pie Splitting in a new venture   12 Designing a huge documentation system [long]   12 Regarding Joel's latest article   12 The MSwin registry   12 My "space" pet-peeve   11 Advice required: Documentation Writing / Sofware T   11 Funny/Interesting threads in this forum   11 unprofessional programmers   11 JSP + EJB (+ Java Beans)   11 Pronouncing HWND   11 Algorithm Reference   11 How to define "Site" in "Site License"?   10 Version control for Document-type files? (doc,etc)   10 Software Catalogs?   10 New Year Resolution   10 Peer 1 Network recommended?   10 old dog, new trick?   10 Storing credit cards in databases   10 Your opinion on the situation in the valley   10 ASP and code soup   10 C Program Optimization   10 How to detect if VB6 APP is running within the IDE   10 Second try: designing a documentation system   10 This chart contains items that have been commented on in this month. Items that have not been commented on yet will not appear.