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Spolsky on Gillmor on Schwartz and Winer: Spolsky on Gillmor on Schwartz and WinerIt's a great experience...... to understand Steve Gillmor the first time.See my small cartoon:http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/2006/12/the_gillmorian_.htmlBye,Oliver; Tags: Spolsky, Gillmor, Winer, Schwartz; Discussion threads 2006-12-24
How would you fix Microsoft's Windows-development problems?: By now, everyone’s heard Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer’s repeated pronouncement that Microsoft will never again take five years to deliver a new version of Windows. But no one inside or outside seems to know exactly how Microsoft plans to make the Windows development process more agile. Many folks have...; Tags: Microsoft Windows, Office, Corporate strategy, Vista, Windows client; Blog posts 2006-11-27
How to make $364 a month writing software: Joel Spolsky's wicked sense of humor is on display in his latest posting, which is also the foreword to Bob Walsh's new book, Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality. Spolsky admits he doesn't like the term "MicroISV," as Independent Software Vendor is "a made-up word, made...; Tags: software company, software, Spolsky; Blog posts 2006-01-13
"The Joel" waxes philosophical on Redmond: When it comes to the industry, Michael Dell may be "the Don" see below, but when it comes to Microsoft, ex-Microsoft employee Joel Spolsky is known as "the Joel" see his blog. Though he's been gone from the company for a decade, his opinions to this day remain among...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., Joel, Spolsky; Blog posts 2004-10-26

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Microsoft's geeks might miss Gates the most: One of the most disheartening things that can happen in any job is when the boss that inspired you, the one you loved to learn from and who made a grueling job more bearable leaves the building. It may be no different at Microsoft this week, as the "geeks" or...; Tags: Steve Ballmer, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Tools & Techniques, Government, Recruitment & Selection, Sales, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Deb Perelman; Blog posts 2008-06-26

Do you need to be a programmer to run a software company?: Joel Spolsky, the CEO of Fog Creek Software -- and a one-time member of Microsoft's Excel team back in the early 1990s (Microsoft's "glory days") -- has a really great look back at the significance of the famed "BillG" reviews. by Mary Jo Foley; Tags: Software, Bill Gates, Programmer, Development Tools, Tools & Techniques, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-06-25
Microsoft's Hailstorm reappearing in the cloud?: "What is this Windows Live Mesh? It's a way to synchronize files." Joel Spolsky -- in classic Joel Spolsky style -- takes on Microsoft (but Google is also on his "radar") to task for fueling a round of hype around the whole notion of Cloud Computing....; Tags: Hype, Cloud Computing, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Joe McKendrick; Blog posts 2008-05-11
Standards and pragmatism in web browsers: Recently, Microsoft declared that true "standards mode" in IE 8.0 will be the default, indicating that it will try to render all pages marked with the proper DOCTYPE according to the more rigorous (and ACID2-compliant) HTML rendering rules of the improved standards mode in IE 8.0. This is in contrast...; Tags: Web, HTML, Spec, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browser, Standards, Standards Mode, Joel Spolsky, Web Browsers, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, John Carroll; Blog posts 2008-03-20
How do you benchmark real-world work?: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes and I have been focusing lately on a tiny aspect of PC performance. He ran two sets of file management benchmarks on a test PC in his lab, I performed similar tests on a machine in my lab. Results? Inconclusive. But are both of us...; Tags: Usability, PC, Microsoft Windows Vista, Usability Professional, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Ed Bott; Blog posts 2008-02-20
2008: The security wishlist: 2008: The security wishlistApple could publish code audit resultsI find that the Coverity scans of open source projects give a relatively objective assessment of the quality of open source code. I find it quite impressive that KDE is having 4.5 million lines of code scanned. The number of...; Tags: OPEN SOURCE, monoculture, security, Apple Inc., vulnerability, diversification, Apple Macintosh; Discussion threads 2008-01-02
Microsoft to build an 'Emacs.Net' text editor: Developers are puzzling over recent clues blogged by a few Microsoft employees regarding a new "Emacs.Net" tool the company is building. Microsoft's Connected Systems Division (the folks who developed the Windows Communication Framework, a k a "Indigo") is hiring developers to build a product that team member...; Tags: Editor, Microsoft Corp., Emacs.Net, Emacs, Microsoft Windows, .Net, Team Management, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Recruitment & Selection, Productivity, Construction, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2007-12-31
Is Shared Source .Net a big deal? Joel and Miguel weigh in: Microsoft and a number of .Net developers trumpeted the Redmond software vendor's announcement this week that it would release the .Net source code under a Microsoft Shared Source license as a huge deal. As the dust is settling, other parties are beginning to weigh in. And some...; Tags: Source Code, Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Corp., .Net, Application Servers, Middleware, Open Source, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2007-10-05
Day 2: Joel Spolsky Live at EclipseCon: Day 2: Joel Spolsky Live at EclipseConDating Online Singles, Personals and Dating SitesFREE ADULT DATING AGENCY - SINGLE DATING - CLICK HEREFREE ADULT DATING AGENCY - SINGLE DATING - CLICK HEREFREE ADULT DATING AGENCY - SINGLE DATING - CLICK HEREFREE ADULT DATING AGENCY - SINGLE DATING - CLICK HEREFREE ADULT...; Tags: Dating Agency, Click Here; Discussion threads 2007-09-28
Blurry, but fast: Safari's fonts: Via Robert Scoble, I ran into an interesting discussion of font rendering in Safari running on Windows. Jeff Atwood has some side-by-side comparisons of Safari rendered text and IE rendered text showing the Safari's font rendering is clearly blurred (sorry, I couldn't resist).Joel Spolsky explains that the difference can...; Tags: Apple, Microsoft, Web Technology; Blog posts 2007-06-15
No... I did not get a Vista laptop: Just in case you were wondering, Microsoft and Edelman did not send me an Acer Ferrari laptop loaded up with Vista. So no ethical conundrum for me. I did, however, receive a Vista Launch kit with some fun geegaws and gadgets which, I assure you, will in no way influence...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Mac, Gadgetry, Software, Blogs; Blog posts 2006-12-28
Gillmor-speak gets redacted into minutiae-as-clarity, for once: Theres this great blog interpretation/expose by Joel Spolsky where he redacts Steve Gillmors latest blog post, which is ostensibly about Jonathan Schwartz recent blogs. Dave Winers, too, I guess.But, because the post is pure Steve, nothing is ever quite as it seems: Hey, there goes an eight-foot white rabbit down...; Tags: Intellectual Property, Sun Microsystems, Podcasts; Blog posts 2006-12-23
Spolsky on Gillmor on Schwartz and Winer: I love reading Joel Spolksys blog actually pretty much everything the guy writes is a gem. Today, he performs an absolutely amazing Tamudic examination and explication of Steve Gillmors latest rant about... well Steve tends to cover a lot of ground when he posts so there are a number of...; Tags: Blogs; Blog posts 2006-12-23
Why are we building 'enterprise' SOAs with 'LEGO blocks'?: Two expressions that get used thousands of times over within a single conference or even single seminar are enterprise and the famous LEGO block analogy for SOA. What exactly do we mean by those terms? Building enterprises, one LEGO block at a time For example, I...; Tags: SOA, analogy, LEGO Co., General; Blog posts 2006-12-10
Google wants data in the cloud, not on the desktop: Google wants data in the cloud, not on the desktopYes, just like we trust banks to keep our money, we will trust serviceproviders to keep our data. We need something like the FDIC, and serious penalties for losing data, but this will work itself out. Of course there will always...; Tags: desktop, Google Inc., Google Wants, hard drive; Discussion threads 2006-11-07
Virtualizing Vista: One of the best ways to test a new or old operating system is to install it in a virtual environment. Instead of messing with physical hardware, you create virtual disks, run processes on a virtual CPU, test what happens when you add some virtual memory, and save the whole...; Tags: VMware Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista; Blog posts 2006-09-11