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Webstock: a Web Conference in New Zealand

I'm looking forward to speaking at Webstock, a web conference next May in Wellington, New Zealand.

This will be fun. I haven't been to New Zealand since 1987. It's such a long trip from New York City (something like 24 hours, I think) that I really should to try to combine this trip with some other meetings or conferences in the South Pacific / Australia / New Zealand area.

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, 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.