This page contains links to the articles contained in Joel Spolsky’s Best Software Writing I.

• Introduction
• Ken Arnold Style is Substance
• Leon Bambrick Award for the Silliest User Interface: Windows Search
• Michael Bean The Pitfalls of Outsourcing Programmers: Why Some Software Companies Confuse the Box with the Chocolates:
• Rory Blyth Excel as a Database
• Adam Bosworth ICSOC04 Talk
• danah boyd Autistic Social Software
• Raymond Chen Why Not Just Block the Apps that Rely on Undocumented Behavior?
• Kevin Cheng and Tom Chi Kicking the Llama
• Cory Doctorow Save Canada’s Internet from WIPO
• ea_spouse EA: The Human Story
• Bruce Eckel Strong Typing vs. Strong Testing
• Paul Ford Processing Processing
• Paul Graham Great Hackers
• John Gruber The Location Field is the New Command Line
• Gregor Hohpe Starbucks Does Not Use Two-phase Commit
• Ron Jeffries Passion
• Eric Johnson C++ – The Forgotten Trojan Horse
• Eric Lippert How Many Microsoft Employees Does It Take to Change a Lightbulb?
• Michael “Rands” Lopp What to Do When You’re Screwed: 5 Scenarios for High-Velocity Engineering Managers
• Larry Osterman Larry’s Rules of Software Engineering #2: Measuring Testers by Test Metrics Doesn’t
• Mary Poppendieck Team Compensation
• Rick Schaut Mac Word 6.0
• Clay Shirky A Group is Its Own Worst Enemy
• Clay Shirky Group as User: Flaming and the Design of Social Software
• Eric Sink Closing the Gap, Part 1
• Eric Sink Closing the Gap, Part 2
• Eric Sink Hazards of Hiring
• Aaron Swartz PowerPoint Remix
• why the lucky stiff A Quick (and Hopefully Painless) Ride through Ruby (with Cartoon Foxes)