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Spolsky based these observations on years of personal experience. Spolsky formerly worked for microsoft developing windows software his argument boils down to something like this. Spolsky formerly worked for microsoft developing windows software. Joel spolsky quotes author of joel on software goodreads. Joel spolsky software success business of software 2008 on vimeo join. Sachin rekhi entrepreneur, product guy, and software engineer. Im joel spolsky, a software developer in new york city. Jul 11, 2012 joel spolsky wrote a great post on some of the hidden costs of software development. They didnt have a specific product in mind, but were motivated to start the kind of software company where they would want to workone where programmers were the stars.
Never use numbers directly in formulas unless obvious, like 365, use the named cellrange you set up. At any given time, there is a certain amount of code waiting to be tested. He was a program manager on the microsoft excel team between 1991 and 1994. While the software inventory post by joel spolsky is a thinlyveiled advertisement for fog creeks new at the time project management tool trello.
The three skills every software developer should learn by nick heath nick heath is a computer science student and was formerly a journalist at. You may think that youre stuck in a boring, drab it department making mind numbing inventory software that only five lonely people will ever use. Joel spolsky founder of stack overflow, trello, and fog creek software now glitch. Last week, joel joel on software spolsky wrote an article arguing that theres not much of a business case for developing mac software. Mar 01, 2010 joel spolsky s blog put his software company on the map.
But for the most part its constructing hacks around fundamental problems that exist in the platform. He later founded fog creek software in 2000 and launched the joel on. You suck at excel with joel spolsky 2015 video 957 points by carlesfe on sept 7, 2016 hide past web favorite 420 comments benjammer on sept 8, 2016. Mar 02, 2020 joel spolsky ceo of stack overflow, cofounder of fog creek software fogbugz, kiln, and creator of trello. I worked with someone who excpected the output of external software developers to match that of external graphic designers who produced page mockups in photoshop. I did it simply because the posts he has written on his blog over the years are a treasure trove of evergreen content. Joel spolsky wrote a great post on some of the hidden costs of software development. Software inventory joel on software 42 it solutions. As an independent, privatelyowned company, weve been making customers happy since the turn of the century. The questions are roughly based on the joel test, joel spolskys 12 questions organizations can use to find areas they need to work on and programmers use to evaluate a potential employer. You suck at excel with joel spolsky 2015 video hacker news.
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Posts by joel spolsky in 2000 i cofounded fog creek software, where we created lots of cool things like the fogbugz bug tracker, trello, and glitch. Stackoverflows joel spolsky on software business insider. Reducing our core apps software inventory the open. It might add up to six or twelve months of work that is stuck in the assembly line and not yet in customers hands. Last week, i was asked by a student how i became a product manager and what was the right training to become one. Lessons from six software rewrite stories slashdot. You may think that youre stuck in a boring, drab it department making mindnumbing inventory software that only five lonely people will ever use.
Youre 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. Hn theater has aggregated all hacker news stories and comments that mention joel spolsky s video you suck at excel with joel spolsky. But you have daily opportunities to show respect for humanity even with the most mundane software. Today i serve as the chairman of the board for stack overflow, glitch, and hash. In 2000 i cofounded fog creek software, where we created lots of cool things like the fogbugz bug tracker, trello, and glitch.
Given his unique background of being a successful founder with tons of software development experience, joel has something to say on what works in software development and testing. Joel spolsky, cofounder, fog creek software joel spolsky founded fog creek software with his friend michael pryor in 2000. The bummer about the joel test is that you really shouldnt use it to make sure that your nuclear power plant software is safe. From software inventory the cost of code inventory is huge. He is the author of joel on software, a blog on software development, and the creator of the project management software trello. All of your pc profile information is kept private on your pc and is not sent to any web server.
His web site joel on software is popular with software developers around the world and has been translated into over 30 languages. My personal top 5 in no order painless software schedules the law of leaky abstractions. I also founded fog creek software, one of the most influential small tech companies in the world. One of my favorite reads on software development is joel spolskys 2012 blog post on software inventory, which has this excellent advice for product teams. Because, as pointed out last week by ellen chisa in her great history of product management, theres a lack of traditional resources on product management. Theres a software company in new york city dedicated to doing things the right. Youre reading joel on software, stuffed with years and years of completely raving mad articles about software development, managing software teams. All programmers, all people who want to enhance their knowledge of programmers, and all who are trying to manage programmers will surely relate to joels musings. The book is directed, as the title indicates, at a variety of different people, from pure coders to codeless managers, but mostly people who are somewhere in between. Jun 25, 2001 joel spolsky joel on software has a great writing style, and some keen insights into how user interfaces work or dont work. In 2000 i cofounded fog creek software, where we created lots of cool things like the fogbugz bug tracker. Benchmark yourself as a programmer with the simple.
What is the net worth of joel spolsky, founder of stack. Hacker news comments on you suck at excel with joel spolsky. See what hacker news thinks about this video and how it stacks up against other videos. The three skills every software developer should learn by nick heath nick heath is a computer science student and was formerly a. The trouble is that 90% of the things in the feature backlog will never get implemented, ever. Gregor hohpe is an advisor at, where he advises ctos and technology leaders in the transformation of their organization and it infrastructure. This, i think, helps explain why so many software companies started by. He was at my favorite coffee shop, sightglass, having coffee with a mutual friend. No of pages in pdf are 304 and epub are 234 version. A weblog by joel spolsky, a programmer working in new york city, about software and software companies. Aaron tersteeg of intel interviews joel spolsky, chief executive officer of stack overflow. The only difference between the two departments is a task. For example, when a programmer finishes implementing their code stage 3 they give it to a tester to check stage 4.
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