Books like Joel on Software

Most tech books get old and out-of-date with time. However I learned plenty of stuff from Joel on Software and enjoyed the author's humour and approach on many topics.Here's a non-exhaustive list of things I learned (more) about:- Always have a bug tracking system.- Fix bugs first before you move on to working on new features. Saves lots of time.- The Joel Test. I need to score better at that.- Character encodings. I always got away with not knowing much about that, now I do. Thanks Joel :D.- Do paper prototyping.- Incentive pay. Don't do that.- Avoid multi-tasking. Humans aren't really good at it.- Not-Invented-Here Syndrome. It's not necessarily bad.- Chicken-And-Egg problems in the software world.There's a sequel: More Joel on Software, I might read it sometime.Quotes:I always wanted to start a blog, this is somewhat of a motivation.[...] Philip Greenspun, who taught me that if you know something, you need to publish it on the web for others to learn from. Rewarding good coders by promoting them to a different position, one that involves writing English, not C++, is a classic case of the Peter Principle: people tend to be promoted to their level of incompetence.About the Not-Invented-Here Syndrome:If it's a core business function, do it yourself, no matter what.