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FusionAuthority has the first review of Fog Creek Copilot: “Everyone I demonstrated the service to was impressed. The screen resolution/quality is high (there is built in JPG compression to speed the screen drawing), mouse reactivity is almost real-time (over broadband) and when we disconnected, the executable was deleted from the desktop, leaving no remnants to clutter the system. By far the best feature of the service is the zero configuration required to bypass firewalls/routers and connect to the host computer.”

Not sure why they want to cook our interns, though...

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 FogBugz, an enlightened bug tracker designed to help great teams develop brilliant software, Kiln, which simplifies source control and code review, and Fog Creek Copilot, which makes remote desktop control easy. I’m also the co-founder of Stack Overflow.