Joel on Software's New Book Published
This may very well be the longest title for a programming-related book! I dig the blog, and this will be on the birthday list for sure (5 weeks in case anyone's feeling generous).
From Joel's blog today (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2004/08/19.html):
It's meant to be a "best of" the website, in other words, there's not a heck of a lot of new material. Gary Cornell and I chose what we thought were the most timeless 45 articles (362 pages) from the Joel on Software archive, and I spent some time cleaning it up and adding occasional postscripts for the book version. Besides the fact that you can read it in the bath, the biggest advantage of the book is that when you throw it at your colleague's head after a very frustrating argument about whether to throw away all your code and start over from scratch, it makes more of an impact than a URL. So buy several copies and keep them handy for winning arguments at work. We tried to keep the price low (it's under $17 today at Amazon).
Joel on Software: And on Diverse and Occasionally Related Matters That Will Prove of Interest to Software Developers, Designers, and Managers, and to Those Who, Whether by Good Fortune or Ill Luck, Work with Them in Some Capacity