Joel on Software

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Joel on Software, the book, is one of Amazon's ten best books of 2004 in "Computers and Internet." Thank you, kind anonymous Amazon.com editors!

California in March: Next year I'll be speaking at both the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference (San Diego, March 14-17) and SD West 2005 (Santa Clara, March 14-18). If you're looking for an interesting conference to get your boss to send you to, both would be excellent choices.

Have you been wondering about Distributed Version Control? It has been a huge productivity boon for us, so I wrote Hg Init, a Mercurial tutorial—check it out!

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You’re reading Joel on Software, stuffed with years and years of completely raving mad articles about software development, managing software teams, designing user interfaces, running successful software companies, and rubber duckies.

About the author.

I’m Joel Spolsky, co-founder of Fog Creek Software, a New York company that proves that you can treat programmers well and still be highly profitable. Programmers get private offices, free lunch, and work 40 hours a week. Customers only pay for software if they’re delighted. We make Trello, which lets you organize anything, together, FogBugz, enlightened issue tracking software for bug tracking, and Kiln, which provides distributed version control and code reviews. I’m also the co-founder and CEO of Stack Exchange. More about me.