last updated:04 Sep 2004 18:07 UK time JOS Statistics - Top 100 Monthly Items Nov 2003 | Oct 2003 | Sep 2003    Number Of Comments AI again   113 What coders can learn from $200/hr plumbers   112 What's Happened to Job Applicants?   101 Thomas Stanley - The Millionaire Next Door   98 Alyosha   97 "Programmer Folkways"   72 The "zip code" is not universal   66 AI   63 ITunes: What rubbish.   61 What source control do you use/   60 should stupid people be allowed to Breed.   60 Academics vs. Engineers   57 Leave your language religious fanaticism   57 Terror Profiles Don't Work   55 Terrorist profiles most certainly do work.   54 Joel and Kaizen have a lot in common   54 Where do all the crappy coders go?   52 At Least Microsoft Patches are Free   50 ANDY GROVE (!!!) warns on dangers of offshoring   49 Microsoft encourages bloggin   48 Exceptions, Threads and robust software.   46 CityDesk too much for small publisher   44 The Language FOrmerly known as Lingo...   44 More on the Half Life 2 code theft   44 What should programmers learn first   42 Policy on exceptions:  Joel or Fog Creek?   41 is this industry intellectually moribund?   41 Source code for Half Life 2 stolen!   40 Development has become insane complex   39 Why RDBMS?   39 machine vs. human chess   39 Are we all crappy coders?   39 Programming is no more interesting!   37 free bug fixes = no-no   37 finally, exceptions == bad   36 How can people excel in so many fields??   36 "C" 32 bit short?   36 Cast Iron   35 Email client used at home?   33 360 students   32 Background color for your editor   32 Curse of the 4.0   32 Counterculture junkies   32 D.O.D. CIO says "Unix is the Betamax of software".   31 What angered me the most as a developer ...   31 The great start up tradition   31 spolsky, you have comment on this?   31 Life and Career   29 XML Formatted Resumes?   29 Why don't browsers just make URLs clickable   28 Has Joel ever really coded in Java?   28 Passwords   28 Online identity   27 Buying Your Own Tools for Work   27 career advice (again?)   27 how many pounds have you gained as a programmer?   26 Any music sites with decent specs?   26 Apple user interfaces (iTunes)   26 Legal Question   26 Who should name an application?   26 Programming as religion   25 Next version of Delphi = .NET only   25 The Hidden Costs of IT Outsourcing   24 Flash   24 More on internationalization   24 Development overhead in India   24 IT Department Pet Peeve   24 Dual Xeon Development PC   24 chitchat   23 Offshoring work   23 Test Team Chaos   23 I finally got it about .NET   23 Made Me Laugh...   23 Design Oversight   23 Stupid SQL Tricks   23 Longhorn, you, and your customer   22 Computer aided pattern cutter?   22 What online radio do you listen to?   22 Microsoft to rule instant messaging?   22 What do coders do??   22 XML Languages as political compromise   22 Larry Wall half-wrong, all-wrong or right?   22 Why does Joel care about PHP at all?   22 Yaml: Yanl Aint Markup Language.   22 Investing Money In Companies   21 Plenty of new jobs for tech experts   21 Good home-use laser printer?   21 Arrggghhh! Fixed size fonts!   21 overuse of css considered harmful   21 character encodings   21 leave company => theh give you a better offer   21 The Chinese government strongly supports piracy   21 Java Synchronization   21 Testing - Best Practices   21 When was the last time you ran out of memory?   20 No Perfect Language   20 yyyy-mm-dd hh:nn:ss - the safest way?   20 Case against documentation?   20 Need a new compile error...   20 SpreadSheets rows limit   20 This chart contains items that have been commented on in this month. Items that have not been commented on yet will not appear.