last updated:04 Sep 2004 18:09 UK time JOS Statistics - Top 100 Monthly Items Oct 2002 | Sep 2002 | Aug 2002    Number Of Comments Why you should (not?) buy an e-book   66 Memoriam   60 A-ha! interview questions   49 25 times as many Mac users?   46 Outsourcing limits innovation   42 Make it too easy, and it will become too cheap.   38 Job Interviews   38 If you're good, don't worry: 12 Reasons   37 One insightful interview question   37 After $273 million, NASA scraps computer project   32 On FogBUGZ And Custom Fields   31 Programmer Interruptions, where does it stop?   29 Dealing w/ Ignorant Software Managers   29 Star-Calc VS Excel (Star Calc loads like a dog!)   26 Ending a Contract   25 Calculation of Results VS Storage of Results   25 Favorite Science/Math Books   25 Advertising vs. word-of-mouth marketing   25 Joel's attitude problem   25 Shrink-wrap apps built from VB?   25 learning to program   24 Joel's wrong on this one.   24 Most admired person in CS field   23 New Articles   23 Groove Platform   22 software secrets exposed!?   21 Google hijacked?   21 Forum Design - Good & Bad   19 Questions about codelines and branching   18 Gilmore Girls   18 building a community   18 .NET vs. Web Standards   18 Intel's Itanium: bloated and behind schedule   17 User Interface and Engineers   17 Software Estimates Early in the LifeCycle ...   17 YAOSD (Yet another open source discussion).   17 Decent alternative to WinDiff   16 Advertising   16 How do "platforms" make money then?   16 Tools to support brain-dead users?   15 Editorial Advertising.   15 Is technology simplifying our lives?   15 TopCoder   15 Starting a Functional Spec Late   14 CVS vs Perforce vs ???   14 Blogs   14 Does hell mean Microsoft for Google ?   14 Why Napster failed to deliver   14 THE Platform   14 Shrinkwrap db app deployment   13 Last minute changes   13 HELP   13 Thinking About Part-Time or Contracting   13 Triangle Problem   13 Business book   12 Stopping pop up ads   12 Programming for the Internet   12 API Design   12 Joel Assumes Incorrectly That Wide Adoption=Good.   12 STARS is late and over budget by $700 Million   11 Groove nuspeak   11 Marketplace Research (Who do you trust?)   11 web services - ever used/developed them?   11 Forum software packages   10 Daily Build Considered Harmful ?   10 Data-structures drawing package   9 VB in a big project   9 Alternative to ScreenCam + FAQ manager?   9 One Stop Platforms vs. Market Complexity   9 Should Consulting be Outsourced?   9 a team of 15 can't build version 2 for years   9 ACM membership worthwhile?   9 Windows free for developers ?   9 What's the point of run-times?   9 UI design/methodology for a many to one   8 How does support fit into business model?   8 Your favorite remote control app?   7 Dreamweaver MX   7 Guess the next CityDesk release date   7 Interview Question   7 new/unique software licenses   7 An alternative to Groove might be REBOL   7 Recommended Books by Joel   6 Thanks Joel!   6 Web site authentication   6 Client Server Application in C++ ..   5 General Magic's Death   4 Appalachian appellation   4 Windows programming in MS language   4 :-)   4 "Rule 5: Templates considered harmful" I Disagree   4 "physical limits to what can be achieved"   3 Good FAQ manager with indexing capability?   3 non-technical books?   3 Jscript/DHTML outliner/tree controlls   3 Owner Drawn Menus In VB   3 Napster   3 show tables in ms access using sql   2 CodeCharge Studio?   2 Simonyi has left Microsft..   2 This chart contains items that have been commented on in this month. Items that have not been commented on yet will not appear.