February 2009 - Posts

• Start-up Static

  “At this point, you're so dang cocky that you have too much wine at Thanksgiving dinner and pointedly remind your mother-in-law about how rude she was to dismiss your start-up idea and how, when you're making millions of dollars, there will be... Posted Feb 25 2009, 08:44 AM by Joel on Software

• Is the tech recession over?

  OK, it’s just one data point. All I know is sales of FogBugz and Copilot. But what I’m seeing is this: October-December 2008 were terrible—sales were 20% lower than usual—but starting January 5th, we saw a significant bounce back to the same level of... Posted Feb 11 2009, 11:50 AM by Joel on Software

• The New York Times covers the Fog Creek office

  The New York Times covered the new Fog Creek office: “A client who claims to know something about design might be an architect’s worst nightmare. But it turns out that Joel Spolsky, a software designer, author and blogger, actually knows a lot about it... Posted Feb 07 2009, 12:19 PM by Joel on Software

• New, faster Copilot

  Something I knew: if you just put traffic on the Internet, it’s not necessarily going to go by the most efficient route. Something I didn’t know: that can make a pretty big difference. The default routes can be slow, clogged, and high latency. Think Cross... Posted Feb 05 2009, 07:23 AM by Joel on Software