{"id":339,"date":"2003-12-01T00:05:40","date_gmt":"2003-12-01T00:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/?p=339"},"modified":"2003-12-01T00:05:40","modified_gmt":"2003-12-01T00:05:40","slug":"01-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/2003\/12\/01\/01-4\/","title":{"rendered":"01"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0521011752\/ref=nosim\/joelonsoftware\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"MARGIN-LEFT: 5px\" height=\"235\" alt=\"Language Policy (book by Bernard Spolsky)\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/12\/01LanguagePolicy.jpg?resize=150%2C235&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"150\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Mazel Tov to the elder Spolsky on his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0521011752\/ref=nosim\/joelonsoftware\">latest book<\/a>&nbsp;<em>Language Policy<\/em>. No, not computer languages.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Craftsmanship<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Writing code is not <em>production<\/em>, it&#8217;s not always craftsmanship (though it can be), it&#8217;s <em>design<\/em>. Design is that nebulous area where you can add value faster than you add cost. The New York Times magazine has been raving about the iPod and how Apple is one of the few companies that knows how to use good design to add value. But I&#8217;ve talked enough about design, I want to talk about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/articles\/Craftsmanship.html\">craftsmanship<\/a> for a minute: what it is and how you recognize it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Summer Internships<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Are you a college student looking for a summer internship in software development? Fog Creek Software is the place for you! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcreek.com\/Jobs\/SummerIntern.html\">Details&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mazel Tov to the elder Spolsky on his latest book&nbsp;Language Policy. No, not computer languages. Craftsmanship Writing code is not production, it&#8217;s not always craftsmanship (though it&hellip; <span class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/2003\/12\/01\/01-4\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;01&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p83KNI-5t","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}