If you’re a developer working for software company, does that company own what you do in your spare time? Read more “Developers’ side projects”
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Developers are Writing the Script for the Future
Last week I was invited to Slush in Helsinki, where I gave a keynote called “Developers are Writing the Script for the Future.” Here’s a 20 minute video… Read more “Developers are Writing the Script for the Future”
RIP CityDesk
Sixteen years after launching Joel on Software, it’s now running on WordPress. Read more “RIP CityDesk”
Anil Dash is the new CEO of Fog Creek Software
For the first time since Fog Creek Software was founded more than sixteen years ago, we have a new CEO, Anil Dash. Read more “Anil Dash is the new CEO of Fog Creek Software”
Reading lists
Over the last 16 years I’ve written 1114 articles on this site about software development, management, business, and the Internet. To make it easy to find the best ones, here are some reading lists, sorted by topic.
Top 10
- Things You Should Never Do, Part I
- Strategy Letter I: Ben and Jerry’s vs. Amazon
- The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code
- Fire And Motion
- The Iceberg Secret, Revealed
- The Law of Leaky Abstractions
- The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)
- How Microsoft Lost the API War
- The Perils of JavaSchools
- The Development Abstraction Layer