Joel on Software

2002/07/19

Vacation

I will be away from July 19 - July 29 on vacation. My new policy is that I don't check email or the web while I'm on vacation.

Translators: check out the latest version of the Language Signup page which represents my current opinion of what everyone is doing and where they are up to. If everyone does what they promised, we'll have at least 210 translated articles in 38 languages.

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.