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Brett has written up instructions for upgrading PHP to the latest version and getting it working with FogBugz. These instructions should be useful to anyone who needs to upgrade PHP due to the recent security flaw.

Happy Fifth

Tomorrow is the fifth anniversary of Joel on Software!

Job Openings

Organize my life and run the office at Fog Creek Software: Executive Assistant / Office Manager (filled).

And don't forget, when you're home for the holidays and you see all your cousins, siblings, and aunts who have been away at college: we have great summer internships, so please encourage them to apply!

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, easy web-based collaboration software, FogBugz, an enlightened bug tracking and software development tool, and Kiln, a distributed source control system that will blow your socks off. I’m also the co-founder and CEO of Stack Exchange. More about me.