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What is stackoverflow.com?
Nothing, yet.
But here’s the concept:
Programmers seem to have stopped reading books. The market for books on programming topics is miniscule compared to the number of working programmers.
Instead, they happily program away, using trial-and-error. When they can’t figure something out, they type a question into Google.
And sometimes, the first result looks like it’s going […]
The summer internships at Fog Creek are already full, but Seth Godin, my marketing rebbe, has marketing internships. Paid! “The idea is to find a diverse group of motivated young people who want to join together to create a few really neat projects. The tools used will range from online video to blogs to copywriting […]
It was seven years ago today when everybody was getting excited about Microsoft’s bombastic announcement of Hailstorm, promising that “Hailstorm makes the technology in your life work together on your behalf and under your control.”
What was it, really? The idea that the future operating system was on the net, on Microsoft’s cloud, and you would […]
“If the flight attendants on the JAL 747 from Tokyo I’m on right now were to, in a remarkable lapse of Japanese standards of service, throw me off the plane with a parachute, I could do a pretty nice roll when I hit the ground.”
From my Inc. Magazine column for April (subscribe here). And with that, […]
Registration is now open for Business of Software 2008 (the first ever Joel on Software conference). Neil has lined up great speakers:
Seth Godin, Business Week’s “Ultimate Entrepreneur for the Information Age”, is the best-selling author of 7 books (including Permission Marketing and Purple Cow) as well as the most popular eBook of all time.
Eric Sink, […]
You’re about to see the mother of all flamewars on internet groups where web developers hang out. It’ll make the Battle of Stalingrad look like that time your sister-in-law stormed out of afternoon tea at your grandmother’s and wrapped the Mustang around a tree.
This upcoming battle will be presided over by Dean Hachamovitch, the […]
The next podcast is up. Today we talked about why we’re doing a podcast in the first place, took some questions/suggestions from listeners, and got into a fight over whether programmers should learn C. Guess which side I took.
There are some improvements, already.
First, there’s an RSS feed, so you can subscribe and get each weekly […]
It has been a decade since the term open source was chosen to represent the concept. Since then open source has changed the way we develop software and it has changed the way users participate. It has made businesses rethink their business models and has helped the industry evolve new economies. It has given freedom […]
vim is an extremely flexible and versatile editor and is one of those tools which have a cult-like following. Typically these tools are liked a lot by these followers and hated by others. So, this post is for those who like to use, or who are open to trying out, vim.
One thing I have learnt […]
OOXML is an ISO approved standard (press release). Microsoft has also released a public statement acknowledging the approval. All this after an initial rejection and admist a mesh of irregularities.
I have been critical of having two standards for the same purpose. But this approval will bring sound of money through Government contracts for Microsoft and […]