Absolute Basic Software Engineer Knowledge Articles

An ongoing list I’m composing as a goto place for my reference in the future.

1. Unicode
   1. Joel Spolsky
   2. Part 1: On the Goodness of Unicode
   3. Part 2: On Character Strings
   4. Part 3: Characters vs. Bytes
   5. Part 4: Programming Languages and Text
2. Code Review
   1. Effective Review
   2. Solid code review
3. Tools
   1. Eric Sink’s Source Control HOWTO
   2. Branching and Merging Primer
4. Designing
   1. Features creep
   2. Designing C++ API by Matthias Ettrich
   3. Design Patterns
   4. Choosing Languages
5. Planning
   1. Planning Poker
6. Refactor
   1. Pattern he hate
      
7. Processes
   1. Check-list
   2. More check-lists
8. Perspective
   1. Focus on user
   2. We are not typical users
   3. Software is Hard by Kyle Wilson
   4. 10 things for beginner
   5. Classic Mistakes and Accompanying Case Study by Steve McConnell
9. Deal w/ customers
   1. Disarm difficult requests
10. Learning
    1. Challenge of Teaching Yourself
11. Presentation
    1. How to Demo Software
    2. Sample Good Demo from FogBug Creek