Occasional Reading List - Software
Three of the following blogs were previously listed in Daily Reading List - Software. I’ve decided to relabel them as “occasional” because, well, their authors post only occasionally.
Patrick McKenzie used to post daily but I guess his business has stabilized and he’s moved on to other things.
- Joel on Software
Joel Spolsky has been likened to the Oprah of the Internet. Joel is an expert on usability and software development. He’s running a successful bootstrapped software company so he knows what he’s talking about. - MicroISV on a Shoestring
Patrick McKenzie is a hero of the MicroISV blogging community. Read his blog from start to finish to learn all about MicroISVing. Hell, read his blog just because he’s an interesting fellow - for starters, he works in Japan, and was once a schoolteacher. - Stevey’s Blog Rants
I don’t know Steve Yegge personally, but from his blog, I’d say he’s very smart (but self-depreciating), very cynical, and very funny. He worked in Amazon for seven years before joining Google. He’s deep into programming languages and touts Javascript 2.0 as the Next Big Language. Well, think about it: if you want to build Web 2.0 applications, you’ve got to know Javascript; the language at the back-end doesn’t really matter. - Essays by Paul Graham
Paul Graham is one of the dotcom era winners - a long time ago he and a couple of friends set up a company called Viaweb and marketed a web-based application for people to set up online stores. He’s also the best known Lisp hacker and the inventor of Bayesian spam filtering. His essays are deep, fundamental, and thought-provoking. - Rands In Repose
I had to read a few entries to make sense of this blog: software development management, software startups, general tech stuff. The writing style is a bit different but once you get the hang of it, it can be a good read. The author of this blog and that of the book, “Managing Humans”, are one and the same.
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