Joel on Software

The New York Times covers the Fog Creek office

The New York Times covered the new Fog Creek office: “A client who claims to know something about design might be an architect’s worst nightmare. But it turns out that Joel Spolsky, a software designer, author and blogger, actually knows a lot about it.”

If you’re coming here from that article craving more pictures and descriptions of the space, there’s an article I wrote describing everything in detail, and there’s also a slideshow with 49 pictures.

Have you been wondering about Distributed Version Control? I wrote a tutorial for my favorite DVCS, Mercurial. It’s called Hg Init—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, 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, Kiln, which provides distributed version control and code reviews, and Fog Creek Copilot, which makes remote desktop access easy. I’m also the co-founder of Stack Overflow.