Joel Spolsky's selection of the best software writing is out. And it looks like it includes two pieces I suggested.

Can't be sure I was causally involved though. ;-)

Here's the full list of my suggestions.

• TeleDyn on small tools


• Paul Ford's Processing Processing (selected)


• Phil Agre on Internet Research


• The Information Architecture of Cities (Coward and Salingaros) As you all know, one of my favourite essays ever.


• James Duncan Davison regretting Ant


• Ward Cunningham on working the program (interviewed on Artima)


• Luke Hohmann on Growing, Pruning and Spiking an architecture also on Artima


• Jim Coplien on engaging other academic cultures


• A couple of articles by Dave Pollard and Seb Paquet on personal knowledge management


• Jon Udell's tale of two cultures (Windows and Unix)


• Manageability on web services


• Dynamic and Wanton couplings


• Some history of social software


• Style is substance by Ken Arnold (also selected)


• Joel Spolsky on Microsoft losing the API war (was already in his other book though)


• Bruce Sterling on spime-mangling


• David Stutz on the natural history of software platforms

I see why a lot of these don't fit Spolsky's "story-telling" format, or are too long, off-topic or off-style. To the reader of this blog, though, I recommend them all.

(Actually this is quite fun. I think I'll draw up a new "best of" list at the end of this year. Why should only Joel play this game?)