last updated:04 Sep 2004 18:08 UK time JOS Statistics - Top 100 Monthly Items Feb 2003 | Jan 2003 | Dec 2002    Number Of Comments Cube or office...What do you have?   59 Best Computer Science Schools in the World   57 Men   52 Shelf-Life Of A Programmer   51 Recommendations sought for Fog Creek developer PCs   50 BBCi   50 Contract-to-hire   48 Licenses   43 Easy VS. Good, and the user experiance!   43 best way to learn SQL?   43 Fear...   42 C++ == Crap   42 Does the college matter   41 Number of Jobs by Programming Language   38 What's missing from CS curricula?   36 Griping about Dell   35 volunteerinng   34 recruiter e-mail   34 Does your work give you meaning?   34 Web design   34 CityDesk Entity Classes - locking strategy?   33 does programming make you dumber?   33 Work Dress Code   32 Windows XP is not an operating system   32 Working For A Small Software Company   31 What Should I Do With My Life?   30 will Linux be mainstream OS, JOEL opinion required   29 Don't Define the Interface in the Database.   28 Teaching Programming   27 need some advice   26 Mad   26 Dim As New   26 Pointers for dummies   25 Years of experience   25 impending doom?   24 Good developers don't just do it for the money   23 Java. Book Recommendations   23 Why didn't you tell me!?   23 Java vs. Perl/PHP   23 How do you get a programming position?   23 Assembly language   21 Rentacoder sites   21 Math   21 Perfectionist?   21 So...Joel's Still Using DAO.  Is Anyone Else?   21 A little something for perspective   20 Code Question~   20 Updated Software Engineering Course   20 Writing a programmer job description   20 Is Linux as really serious threat on the dekstop?   20 Does usability matter?   19 Globals Suck   18 Mouth Wide Shut   18 The Gilmore Girls an Advertising Trojan Horse?!   18 Anyone familiar w/ webhosting services out there?   18 Mysql - Good or bad?   18 Where'd all the Young Programmers go?   17 Design patterns   17 RSI   16 Out in the open vs. deep secret development   16 How to get published?   16 Handling multipler version of standard OCXs?   16 Java. Good for client apps?   16 How many times do you solve the problem?   15 Books on leading peers   15 anti-spam   15 embeddable open source SQL DB   15 Plan to throw one away...   14 Joel on Software Forum - statistics   14 Good Serial Codes   14 The future   14 Healthy Computing   13 Where is the industry going?   13 IS it bad to charge by the hour?   13 Java multithreading limitations   13 Syntax   13 Curious - impressions of military background   13 Free or Inexpensive Tools   13 network engineering?   13 Google, most Ph.Ds per square foot, ...   13 Opinions on where to purchase domain names needed.   13 Everquest - Bug Tolerance and Online Patchers   12 VHS Better than BetaMax?   12 skillsets - how to expand into databases   12 Can I make money writing shareware?   12 Formatting the hard drive   12 Good C book for newbie   12 Which technology for RPC through the Net?   12 What do you guys make of Case resigning as CEO?   12 This should be easy part II ...   12 Data Access code and Refactoring   12 Help - translating a few lines of C into RealBASIC   12 Best Java IDE?   12 Open source from a different angle   12 The Problem With Java   11 VS.Net annoyances abound   11 MySQL Adds Subselects   11 It's Back!   11 Salary?   11 Value of traditional "sales culture" for geeks?   11 This chart contains items that have been commented on in this month. Items that have not been commented on yet will not appear.