Joel on Software

Server Fault is now in public beta! When Jeff Atwood and I launched Stack Overflow last fall, we really wanted it to be a site for and by programmers. But the engine behind the site, the Q&A engine with voting, editing, and tagging, could obvi

Stack Overflow has been going nuts—after just six months in business, we’ve had 3.5 million unique visitors per month. We’ve starting thinking about how to get that great tribe of developers together in the real world.We decided to launch a ser

“Even as competitors like Circuit City go bust, B&H remains packed with loyal customers. And that makes me very happy. For a business owner, there's nothing more satisfying than watching honest dealers expand their operations while the schmucks

Here’s a video of a talk I gave at Google last week about StackOverflow. Need to hire a really great programmer? Want a job that doesn't drive you crazy? Visit the Joel on Software Job Board: Great software jobs, great people.

Three years ago, I was invited to New Zealand to speak at Webstock, the local web conference. Now, let me tell you honestly, I go to a lot of these conferences, and the speakers are often saying the same things, or I’ve heard them before, so it’s

We’re always looking for good programmers at Fog Creek, but right now we could really, really use a top notch Win32 (C/C++) developer to join the Copilot team. I know you’re out there. Apply now! Thanks!   Need to hire a really gr

This month, I wrote up a brief description of Fog Creek’s compensation system for Inc. I also posted the Fog Creek professional ladder which is used to compute everyone’s level and thus determines their base salary.   Need to hire a re

One of the FogBugz developers complained that compiling was pretty slow (about 30 seconds), which was leading to a lot of sword fights in the hallway. He asked if it would be OK if someone spent a few weeks looking for ways to parallelize and speed i

If you’re going to Las Vegas next week for Microsoft’s huge MIX 09 conference, Jeff and I will be recording a live broadcast of the Stack Overflow podcast. Er, I mean, it’s “live” in the sense that it will be recorded in front of a live aud

Having a good program manager is one of the secret formulas to making really great software. And you probably don’t have one on your team, because most teams don’t. Charles Simonyi, the brilliant programmer who co-invented WYSIWYG word processin