last updated:04 Sep 2004 18:08 UK time JOS Statistics - Top 100 Monthly Items Apr 2003 | Mar 2003 | Feb 2003    Number Of Comments politics   155 Greed and Total Cost of Employment   93 Boomerang of offshore outsourcing?   68 Is Inheritance a Pillar of OO?   64 Why do Programmers Hate Documenting?   61 Get it?   55 Memory/Concentration enhancing drugs   52 Reluctance to Learn   52 Once you go laptop-can you go back???   51 Current Date.   50 Commenting Code   50 Money, taxes, and whining   48 Allowing developers to control their machines?   46 Parade Magazine - What People Earn   46 Pair Programming Experiences   43 What One Recruiter Really Thinks of Techies...   40 Applets making a comeback?   40 Coding: Means or End?   39 Hungarian Notation   39 What allows GNU/Linux to produce good software?   39 Do you own a website?   38 Trivia - In a For loop, why is I used?   36 Do employers ever say "No Thank You"?   36 Personal Firewalls?   35 Preferences vs. advanced users.   35 writing coding tests at interviews   35 Am I being unreasonable?   34 What does a 'world class' programmer know?   34 A good desk   34 Joel's email article!   34 Salary Increase Negotiations...   33 anybody seeing an end to this recession?   33 Headphones.   32 Interviewing for Senior Position (again ...)   31 Anyone knows a huge software crisis?   31 The Tyranny of Email   30 what's your title   30 Algorithm for Photoshop's AutoLevel/AutoColors?   29 API vs .NET   29 Pretenders for senior dev positions   29 Gadget freak or conservative?   29 Selling non existent software features   29 MS Access or MSDE for a new development?   28 When did booleans burn you?   28 Best editor: Visual Slick, Vim, ..   27 Python with C or C++?   27 Personal Projects   26 Windows' Biggest Enemy Is NT, Not Linux   26 Dave Frets over Google   26 Where does the name Fog Creek come from?   26 Discuss: Win9x/MacOS makes users dumb/scared?   25 Lunch At Cubile or Away?   25 The new offices   25 Any SysAdmins Out There?   25 "Less than expert" Technical Professionals?   25 what comes first, product or company?   24 What do you do with your old tech-books?   24 "Incentive Pay Considered Harmful" Revisited   23 The most amazing "bug" EVER   23 Any JoelOnSoftware readers in Bangalore, India?   23 Real World Metaphore   23 The Real Problem   23 Laptop recommendations?   23 Specialization of developers good for a business?   23 Software Development Analogs   23 Not Programming   23 what problems do your code address?   22 Keeping Your Job   22 Adobe UI - really bad, or is it just me?   22 Cross-platform options?   22 I have a confession to make.   22 job prospects   22 "We're in a time crunch on this project..."   22 Where do bugs come from?   22 Microsoft's road ahead   22 Rule Number Four: Great People Can Manage Themselv   21 Discussion Forum Software   21 Advantages to MFC   21 Social aspects of "world class" developers?   21 Import tariffs and outsourcing code   20 Parallelogram Offices ? Ever tried Feng Shui ?   20 Ripped from Slashdot:  Is XML too hard?   20 Another "interruption" to programming: email?   20 Why should Joel want your E-mail?   20 average salaries of software developers in India   19 Manipulating Very Large Text Files   19 All foreigners rise early   19 Oldest Computer Magazine You Have   19 Joel on office space   18 Tech hubs around the globe   18 Wrox bankrupt?   18 Website Implementation   18 What's your opinion.NET?   18 Bad UI Design in just three widgets   18 WinCE beats VxWorks in revenue   17 Joel on Writing   17 Management buying software without requirements?   17 Sending work samples with resume?   16 William Whyte's rule   16 FogBugz: Projects practically manage themselves?   16 This chart contains items that have been commented on in this month. Items that have not been commented on yet will not appear.