Smart & Gets Things Done

Joel Spolsky's latest book, Smart and Gets Things Done is a short little book that reprises a bunch of his web essays. It quickly goes through why hiring good developers is a good idea, how to locate them, deal with them, woo them, and screen them out from the masses of mediocre developers. It's a good read, although short on details at times, but with plenty of pointers to more information (it made me order Peopleware, for instance), and required reading for anyone trying to grow a software company (and probably any company composed of knowledge workers).