March 2009 - Posts

• Solid State Disks

  One of the FogBugz developers complained that compiling was pretty slow (about 30 seconds), which was leading to a lot of sword fights in the hallway . He asked if it would be OK if someone spent a few weeks looking for ways to parallelize and speed it... Posted Mar 27 2009, 11:02 AM by Joel on Software

• Stack Overflow Live!

  If you’re going to Las Vegas next week for Microsoft’s huge MIX 09 conference, Jeff and I will be recording a live broadcast of the Stack Overflow podcast . Er, I mean, it’s “live” in the sense that it will be recorded in front of a live audience ...... Posted Mar 11 2009, 09:09 AM by Joel on Software

• How to be a program manager

  Having a good program manager is one of the secret formulas to making really great software. And you probably don’t have one on your team, because most teams don’t. Charles Simonyi, the brilliant programmer who co-invented WYSIWYG word processing, dated... Posted Mar 09 2009, 07:16 AM by Joel on Software