I don’t remember exactly when I first stumbled across Joel Spolsky’s blog Joel on Software, but it was at some point late in high school. I didn’t know enough about the whole software development process to get a lot of what he was talking about really, but I enjoyed his writing style, and I enjoyed what he had to say.
In fact, I was such a fan that when I graduated, I went on to buy his books (which were collections of the articles on his site) and read them cover-to-cover. I kept copies of them on my desk at work, and I used one of his books – Smart and Gets Things Done – when I was a team lead.
The articles that stuck out the most to me, though, were those that were about writing better code. Here’s the thing, though: Those articles included nothing about actually writing code.
Writing Better Code
Instead, it was all about the processes around better code. And I stumbled across an article – 16 years old, nonetheless – and I still find it as relevant today as I did when I first found it.
Except now, I find it myself wondering how it applies to my current development gig.
The Joel Test
First, the article in question is one that I find
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