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Project Aardvark: “I initially approached C# with a bit of trepidation. Although my bread and butter (and grades) depend on C++ and Java, anyone who knows me well knows that I’d much rather be working in one of the dynamic languages—especially Squeak Smalltalk or Ruby—than in any of the C descendents. My previous experiences with Microsoft languages (VisualBasic in all of its many varieties) did not exactly raise my expectations, and I was prepared for the worst.”

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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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, easy web-based collaboration software, FogBugz, an enlightened bug tracking and software development tool, and Kiln, a distributed source control system that will blow your socks off. I’m also the co-founder and CEO of Stack Exchange. More about me.