I've been reading Joel On Software for a while now, and loving it. However, I enjoyed this post more than usual and I just can't quell the urge to blog about it. It's just a great essay getting to the point of passion and the importance of design and quality in software development. Plus, it gave me flashbacks to CS323 (that's right, I feel cooler by association, I'm not ashamed of it) and some of the most difficult programming I'll ever do -- web application development is so simple in comparison.
Also, this is a great quote:
Internal, in-house software is rarely important enough to justify hiring rock stars. Nobody hires Dolly Parton to sing at weddings. That's why the most satisfying careers, if you're a software developer, are at actual software companies, not doing IT for some bank.
I tagged this article as "awesome" on my del.icio.us -- enough said.