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We’ve been opening new Stack Exchanges left and right on a variety of topics. In almost every case, the Stack Exchange appears to duplicate the content of an existing community. For example, our WordPress answers site (now in beta) covers the exact same...
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Sometimes I think a pretty good business model would be to copy the applications that 37signals makes, but make them more complex. More features, more promises—generally, just more complicated. Here’s the video from a talk I gave at the Business of Software...
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We launched three new Stack Exchange sites this week! Gaming Cooking Pro Webmasters We’ll have three more for you next week, too. Need to hire a really great programmer? Want a job that doesn't drive you crazy? Visit the Joel on Software Job Board...
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“We decided that individually-branded sites felt more authentic and trustworthy. We thought that letting every Stack Exchange site have its own domain name, visual identity, logo, and brand would help the community feel more coherent. After all, nobody...
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Want to know how to export mail from Gmail ? Or delete your Facebook account ? Or send giant files via email ? Well, the new Web Applications Stack Exchange is for you. It’s a part of the Stack Exchange network, so it has the clean, elegant design that...
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Neil has posted a video of Don Norman (most famous for his book The Design of Everyday Things ) speaking at the Business of Software conference last year in San Francisco. “Imagine you’re on the first slide of your powerpoint presentation and want to...
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Area 51 is now in beta . This is the promised place where the community comes together to invent new Stack Exchange sites. Benofsky from Hacker News writes : Seems overly complicated, I have no idea what's going on when I visit Area 51, I guess this...
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My friend Noam at Harvard Business School does annual surveys of executive compensation in tech companies. The surveys are a great way to figure out how much to pay that VP of Sales you were thinking of hiring, or whether your equity grant as CTO is fair...
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Paul Kenny is a regular speaker at the Business of Software. He’s an expert on sales, especially high tech sales, and both Red Gate and Fog Creek hire him all the time to train our sales teams and build our sales organization. Here’s a video of his talk...
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FogBugz 7.3 is a pretty huge release, despite the modest version number. It has a bunch of features that almost everyone will find useful on a daily basis. The Case Event Edit Plugin now lets you edit cases (instead of just appending to them). Bulk Reply...
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I’m a long-time Kathy Sierra fan. Her talk at the Business of Software 2009 was amazing, even though, in retrospect, I realize now that she had a slide making fun of Stack Overflow’s terrific new VC-backed business model. She even got the unicorn ! Watch...
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“And the best answer we could come up with was, let’s make the damn thing free, and get some VC somewhere to pay for it.” Announcing the Stack Overflow Series A financing Need to hire a really great programmer? Want a job that doesn't drive you crazy...
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Dear TechSmith , Thank you very much for all the pictures of your pets: Also thanks for the toys, which were great. I especially like the iPhone. Yours, Taco. Need to hire a really great programmer? Want a job that doesn't drive you crazy? Visit the...
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Since announcing the new plans for Stack Exchange , there’s been a lot of discussion about what kind of new Q&A sites will work best on this platform. S o far there are 32 informal proposals on meta.stackexchange.com . We’re weeks away from opening...
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Like the small-town mayor who suddenly finds herself running an entire state, our ambitions for Stack Overflow keep growing. Our original idea of making the Internet a better place to get expert answers to your programming questions suddenly seemed too...
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There is a new book out by Fred Brooks (author of The Mythical Man Month )! The Design of Design Need to hire a really great programmer? Want a job that doesn't drive you crazy? Visit the Joel on Software Job Board : Great software jobs, great people...
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The entire extended Stack Overflow team (including the Stack Exchange team) is meeting in New York in April to do some strategic planning. For example, we need to plan our Rock Band song lists, decide who gets to be on the drums and who is stuck with...
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A while ago Jeff and I had Eric Sink on the Stack Overflow Podcast , and we were yammering on about version control, especially the trendy new distributed version control systems, like Mercurial and Git . In that podcast, I said, “To me, the fact that...
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At right, a picture of Taco, a ten-week-old siberian husky puppy who moved in with us last week! Some of you may have seen my final column in Inc. , in which I announce my retirement from blogging effective March 18th, the 10-year anniversary of Joel...
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New StackOverflow developer Kevin Montrose (6,878 reputation) added a neat feature to the career site that makes it a zillion times easier to file a CV if you’ve already put in your job and education history on LinkedIn or FaceBook. Try it out . Need...
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A few people heard me on This Week in Startups (starting at 15:45) asking Jason if we should take money from the first VC who fell into our laps, or spend time doing the Sand Hill Road rounds, meeting more VCs, and doing a road show for the other firms...
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In the early days of a technology startup, you tend to have a lot of software developers, and you feel like you could never have enough. If you hire sales and marketing staff too early, they don’t really get much traction, and you may start to think that...
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My sister got her kids a little puppy, and they’ve been trying to train it. To live with a dog in the house, you need to teach it not to jump on people, not to poop in the house, to sit on command, and to never, ever, ever chew on the iPad. Never. Good...
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Steve Krug has written a follow up to his usability classic Don’t Make Me Think . The sequel, Rocket Surgery Made Easy , is a terrific, short, concise, fun guide to running simple “hallway” usability tests to improve the usability of your software and...
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“As companies expand, the people within them start to specialize. At such a point, some managers will conclude that they have a ‘keep everyone on the same page’ problem. But often what they actually have is a ‘stop people from meddling when there are...
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