Joel on Software

2002/10/16

I spent the day catching up on the Joel on Software translation effort.

There are new articles online in Danish, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazilian and Iberian), and Romanian.

As my faithful volunteers have learned it sometimes takes me a week to respond to their email; I usually let all the translation-related email pile up and then work through it once a week.

Right now there are a few articles stuck in the queue because they don't have a copy editor -- if you can edit in Farsi, Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Spanish, or Turkish, please let me know!

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, enlightened project management software for bug tracking, Kiln, which provides distributed version control and code reviews, and Fog Creek Copilot, which makes remote desktop support easy. I’m also the co-founder of Stack Overflow.