Fog creek s newest project, gomix formerly hyperdev is relaunching. He later founded fog creek software in 2000 and launched the joel on software blog. How can you be a great developer and make great software without a nice monitor, comfy. The fog creek headquarters is based in manhattan new york city.
Lambda on joel on software kalani 0 keyboard rant anonymouse 38. I always thought that joel had shamelessly recycled the name fog city software, guy kawasakis company laurent monday, march 3, 2003 um, is knowlege of pop culture needed to decipher this. I also founded fog creek software, one of the most influential small tech companies in the world. Joel spolsky was writing joel on software and it was a very influential software. Anil dash is the new ceo of fog creek software joel on software joel on software. Fog creek is known for their snazzy offices and attention to detail. Small business success index 4 index score grade sbsi. Further thoughts on diverse and occasionally related matters that will prove of interest to software developers, designers, and managers, and to those who, whether by good fortune or ill luck. Theres a software company in new york city dedicated to doing things the right way and proving that it can be done profitably and successfully. They came in second and third place out of a pack of over 20 worldclass entrepreneurs weve interviewed on the show well announce the venture voice entrepreneur of the year award winner next week.
Founder of stack overflow, trello, and fog creek software now glitch. They didnt have a specific product in mind, but were motivated to start the kind of software company where they would want to workone where programmers were the stars. It really is the best environment to develop quality software. His web site joel on software is popular with software developers around the world and has been translated into over 30 languages. Its a pretty long pipeline, so you need to have a longterm perspective, but it pays off in spades. We have a dedicated development team continuing to work on it and are still regularly releasing new features and enhancements, especially in the area of agile development.
However the vc market has been harming not too long ago. One of the purposes of the fog creek professional ladder is to create a career path with promotions for engineers who simply do not want to do management stuff at all. This is the old fog creek software discussion system. Part 3 of 5 this is an old, archived forum, no longer open for new posts. Joel spolsky founder of stack overflow, trello, and fog creek software now glitch. Watch joel spolsky ceo of stack overflow talk about starting and running. So we had to chip in about a half million dollars of our own to upgrade just about everything. This is a developer playground for building fullstack webapps fast.
Most recently, he cofounded stack overflow, a questionandanswer site for software developers. Back in 2000, two visionary founders, joel spolsky and michael pryor, envisioned a new tech company that would distinguish itself by the way it treated people both its employees and its customers. They make fogbugz, a joltaward winning project tracking application, and fog creek copilot, the easiest way to provide remote assistance over the internet. You suck at excel with joel spolsky a private presentation to stack overflow, trello, and fog creek the way you are using excel causes errors. Since 2000, fog creek software has been a profitable, bootstrapped software company in new york city with no outside investors, dedicated to making a great place to work for the worlds best software developers. Fog creek software is a software company that specializes in project management tools. What is the net worth of joel spolsky, founder of stack. Fogbugz gives you all the features you need to create great software. Back when joel cofounder of fog creek started the joel on software blog, he was the only one saying that tech should be treating people better, both as users and as employees. Fog creek software, the new york company that came up with stack overflow and trello, is announcing today that its new hyperdev service, which. Joel mentioned he spent more than a million on improving the interior design.
But then, in defense of what im about to say, i am relying on joel s own words. The fog creek professional ladder determines your base salary. Building great office space for software developers serves two purposes. Based in new york city, fog creek was founded in 2000 as a consulting company by joel spolsky and michael pryor. Fog creek software ceo anil dash answers all the questions on too embarrassed to ask. As the consulting market started to dry up due to the collapse of the dotcom bubble, fog creek moved to a productbased business. We share what weve learned about how to make great software, both by writing about our ideas and by creating products, like fogbugz, trello and gomix, that help others make great technology. Glitch is a collaborative programming environment that lives in your browser and deploys code as you type. Back in 2000, two visionary founders, joel spolsky and michael pryor, envisioned a new tech company that would distinguish itself by the way it treated people. The only problem was that his idea of a nice office was a lot closer to initech than fog creek. Part 1 of 5 this is an old, archived forum, no longer open for new posts.
Fog creek s developer tool, fogbugz, is still going strong. He is the author of joel on software, a blog on software development, and the creator of the project management software trello. An internship program creates a pipeline for great employees. I am also a slightly mystified as to why the great joel spolsky gets so much coverage on slashdot, seeing as he is on record as being a bit of a microsoft apologist, and general proprietary software fanboy especially the rather generic and uninspired applications produced by his company, fog creek joel, i may not be as ascerbic as. At fog creek software, the way we make sure that people are paid fairly and rewarded for excellent work is based on a professional ladder. Hanselminutes on 9 tour of fog creek software with joel. Were hiring for a bunch of new positions with more to. Fog creek launches hyperdev collaborative appdevelopment. And in a few years fog creek will move to a different location again at which point theyll have to build a new high end office. Stack overflow fog creek joel spolsky is a globallyrecognized expert on the software development process. Here i refer to the content of both jointly as joel on software, with emphasis on the presentation in the book. Recommended servers for putting in colo joel spolsky fog creek 16 first internet usage furious george 56. Joel spolsky is the cofounder and ceo of fog creek software in new york city and the host of the joel on software blog at.
You get project management, issue tracking, and support functionality fused with just enough process to help you deliver on point and on time. Why i never let employees negotiate a raise, corporate. Fog creek software, has summer internships in software development that look great on resumes. As i write this and as you read it, of course, we should both recognize that i know absolutely nothing about the specific business of fog creek software, so im probably way off base here. Jason fried of 37signals and joel spolsky of fog creek software have won venture voice entrepreneurial achievement awards. Joel on software for the dc area philo 11 after cv. Fog creek explicitly recognizes that many good software engineers have no desire whatsoever to do management or to take on a formal personnel management role. Both are by joel spolsky, a programmer who worked on excel and juno throughout the nineties, and now runs fog creek software. For an archive of his columns, go to keywordspolsky. Many software companies these days are made making use of some form of enterprise capital. Fog creek software, to produce a series of daylong technical conferences for software developers. Joel spolsky, cofounder, fog creek software joel spolsky founded fog creek software with his friend michael pryor in 2000. It was in 2000, initially as a consulting company, by joel spolsky and michael pryor.
Recruiting the top 1 percent joel spolsky fog creek. Our ideal of giving every developer a private office is unusual, so its almost impossible to find prebuilt office space set up that way. Founded by joel spolsky of joel on software, fog creek has been focused on continuous innovation, launching new products almost every. Every day, joel spolsky and thousands of other voices read, write, and share important stories on medium. Recommendations sought for fog creek developer pcs joel spolsky 50 need some advice dummy 26 requirements definition happy to be working 3 the zone and being done sebastian. As an independent, privatelyowned company, weve been making customers happy since the turn of the century. Iama cofounder of stack exchange and fog creek software, joel spolsky im the ceo and cofounder of stack exchange, the company behind, serving 14. Joel spolsky is the cofounder and ceo of fog creek software in new york city. Part 4 of 5 this is an old, archived forum, no longer open for new posts. Im writing an article about leaky abstractions and am wondering if.
When youre starting out as a technical blogger, youll inevitably stumble across joel on software. As the founder of fog creek software in new york city, he created fogbugz, a popular project management system for software teams. Fog creek software project management and issue tracking. Joel spolsky, our cofounder at fog creek software, whos now the ceo of stack overflow, wrote a very influential post on interviewing candidates for his joel on software blog back in 2000. Trello is a webbased kanbanstyle listmaking application which is a subsidiary of atlassian. Joel spolsky, of joel on software blog fame, founded fog creek software, a new york citybased software company that develops software tools for programmers. Iama cofounder of stack exchange and fog creek software.
He was until this month the host of the popular blog joel on software. Plus, theres robust integration with other best of breed tools like. Joel spolsky interview ceo of stack overflow and joel on software joel spolsky interview with josh james at. He also founded fog creek software, created trello, and is the author of joel on software, one of the first and best computer programming blogs. Hes been blogging since the year 2000, when computers were handcarved of wood and the internet transmitted data via carrier pigeon. Joel spolsky is the ceo and founder of stack overflow, the premiere question and answer site about computer programming. Citydesk desktop content management software fogbugz viral bug tracking joel on software. Fog creek software ceo anil dash on too embarrassed to ask. Cofounder of fog creek software and stack overflow. It is recalculated every august, and new base salaries go into effect september 1st youll see it on the september 15 paycheck.
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