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The below books and articles are those that I’ve found to be interesting or educational or that have expressed my own opinions more articulately than I could.

Engineering

●  The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) by Joel Spolsky

●  The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code by Joel Spolsky

●  Controlling Your Environment Makes You Happy by Joel Spolsky

●  Painless Functional Specifications by Joel Spolsky

● [Book] Code Complete 2 by Steven C. McConnell

Management

●  Evidence Based Scheduling by Joel Spolsky

●  7 Creative Principles of Pixar by John Lasseter

● [Book] Behind Closed Doors: Secret of Great Management by Johanna  Rothman and Esther Derby

Design

●  The Process of Designing a Product by Joel Spolsky

●  The BrainStormer by Andrew Bosley

● [Book] How to Write Better Requirements Production by Ian Alexander and Richard Stevens

● [Book] Andrew Rollings and Ernest Adams on Game Design

Production

●  Painless Bug Tracking by Joel Spolsky

●  Why You Only Need to Test with 5 Users by Jakob Nielsen

●  Using Discount Usability Engineering to Penetrate the Intimidation Barrier by Jakob Nielsen

Interviewing

●  The Guerrilla Guide To Interviewing by Joel Spolsky