Joel on Software

2002/03/11

My publisher sent me a couple of new books today which might be of some interest to this crowd:

Herding Cats: A Primer for Programmers who Lead Programmers
J. Hank Rainwater

The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactics for an Imperfect World
Christopher Duncan

I haven't read them yet. Let me know what you think -- do they deserve a place in the hall of fame?

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.