last updated:04 Sep 2004 18:08 UK time JOS Statistics - Top 100 Monthly Items Dec 2002 | Nov 2002 | Oct 2002    Number Of Comments Unemployment Woes   103 How to start oversea project outsourcing?   74 Angry manager   65 The Law of Leaky Abstractions   64 Dead wood II   59 The Ultimate IQ Test   58 Very OLD translations   48 How many gas stations in USA?   40 Sabbatical: Your opinion on this.   37 SourceSafe monitoring tool   35 Stick-shift or Auto-shift ?   35 "Next Big Thing."   35 A case for subscription software   35 Revenue   34 Spam   32 "Murphy had other plans"   32 Free (Or Nearly So) Programmer's toolkits?   32 bait and switch: what would you do?   29 What will you do after IT?   27 Bringing Code Samples to Interviews   27 how do you manage your finance?   26 CVS vs Visual Source Safe   25 Re: "Bad Spam Filters" spiel   25 Anti-spam vigilantes   24 Whose back hurts?   24 Development Workstation   23 speaking of leaky..   23 Average Raise after 6 months?   23 Mathematics Software and Hardware   23 SPAM Techniques that REALLY work!!!   23 Joels humourous analysis of .NET, 2000   22 Software Quotations   22 Role of testers   22 Data validation: best practices   22 Voting Machine Usability   22 Develop apps when jobhunting?   21 How to let managment know about quoting   21 Java and .Net both a Disaster: Research   21 Linux Commands   21 C++ Builder - any good?   20 Simple Question   19 how to "manage expectations"   19 Whatever happened to the slashdot discussions?   19 flash card program for learning a foreign language   18 Trial-ware expirations   18 Good questions to ask at end of interview?   18 PM Tries to do The Right Thing   18 Filemaker And coworkers   18 Honest days work   17 MultiThreading   17 Expected out of college experience?   17 Email Postage   17 Logon vs Login   17 What are your favorite weblogs?   17 Coding vs. design   16 To refactor, or not to refactor...   16 Pricing   16 Over the top?   16 The best of two goodies...   15 Dead Wood "III"   15 Competing Offers -- Need Advice   15 Functional Programmers   15 Version of ms-office is used in the market place?   15 Fox Pro   14 PalmOS Programming   14 Must-see geek sites in or near Seattle   14 Is the IT Recession Over?   14 FogBugz looks great; what's OK for Linux/Unix?   14 Meetings   13 Spam Proofing our discuss boards   13 Color Capture Feature   12 Painless Software Schdules and Varying Staff Level   12 Career Disucussion Board?   12 Macromedia Contribute   12 J2EE vs. PHP for web app development   12 Writing Specs - Not my job   12 I need fast image converter   11 Why compiled help?   11 The guerrilla guide to interviewing   11 Fast, OLEDB database connection instead of ODBC.   11 Bug Triage   10 Follow up procedures   10 Working at Microsoft   10 REBOL   10 UI Books   10 CityDesk 'Edit with'   10 Good idea to bundle Proj. Mgr. + Tester?   10 Opera 7 now out, re-engineered code   10 Hallway useability Test   10 Windows C++ Development   9 Need a better UI for master/detail tables   9 OT? Source control for accountants...   9 Outsourcing   9 QA in an organization with no QA dept   9 good catch Joel   9 Learning Perl   9 Where can I buy a cheap version of SQL Server   9 getting even   8 Similar websites as JoelOnSoftware   8 Code Cleanup   8 This chart contains items that have been commented on in this month. Items that have not been commented on yet will not appear.