The Best Software Writing I: Selected and Introduced by Joel Spolsky 是 Joel 編輯的新書，書裡蒐集了許多很棒的文章，都是關於軟體開發的。這些文章很容易地都可以在作者的個人網站裡找到 (感謝這些樂於分享知識的 bloggers)：
- Ken Arnold - Style Is Substance
- Leon Bambrick - Award for the Silliest User Interface: Windows Search
- Michael Bean - The Pitfalls of Outsourcing Programmers
- 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
- 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
- Eric Sink - Hazards of Hiring
- Aaron Swartz - PowerPoint Remix
- why the lucky stiff - A Quick (and Hopefully Painless) Ride Through Ruby (with Cartoon Foxes)