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The contents of the office next door to us are being auctioned off as we speak. I hope that means we'll be able to expand into there soon: we've totally outgrown our existing office space.

The interns have spent the last two weeks working on performance enhancements to copilot.com. They put in support for automatically finding proxy servers and using them if necessary, and this week they've been working on raw speed. Tonight the whole company is going to sales training, in the form of the play Glengarry Glen Ross.

Thanks to David McNett for sending me the great I (heart) Unicode T-Shirt! He's selling them, both in Mac and Windows format, on cafepress.

 

Work with me, here! Fog Creek Software has great paid internships in software development for qualified college students. They’re in New York City. Free housing, lunch, and more. And you get to work on real, shipping software with the smartest developers in the business.

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I’m Joel Spolsky, 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 FogBugz, an enlightened project management system designed to help great teams develop brilliant software, and Fog Creek Copilot, which makes remote desktop access easy.