Joel on Software

Zagreb / Edinburgh

On May 17th I'll be speaking at Web.Start in Zagreb, Croatia. “Web.Start is the first regional conference catering to the authors of Web projects, aiming to help them realize or improve their projects and helping them reach the knowledge and contacts that will help hem position themselves on the market, fund their projects and achieve success.”

Also.

Inadvertently, I referred to the UK as "England."

In my defense, I really did think that I was analyzing data on customers in England specifically. Later I realized that our order form dropdown only has a listing for the United Kingdom.

By way of apologies, if you're in Edinburgh when I pass through there on May 19th, let me buy you a pint. Sign up on this wiki page.

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.