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A weblog by Joel Spolsky, a programmer working in New York City, about software and software companies.

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2022 2

  1. Progress on the Block Protocol
  2. Making the web better. With blocks!

2021 1

  1. Kinda a big announcement

2020 1

  1. HASH: a free, online platform for modeling the world

2019 3

  1. So, how’s that retirement thing going, anyway?
  2. Welcome, Prashanth!
  3. The next CEO of Stack Overflow

2018 5

  1. Announcing Stack Overflow for Teams
  2. Strange and maddening rules
  3. A Dusting of Gamification
  4. The Stack Overflow Age
  5. Birdcage liners

2016 6

  1. Developers’ side projects
  2. Developers are Writing the Script for the Future
  3. RIP CityDesk
  4. Anil Dash is the new CEO of Fog Creek Software
  5. Oh look, a new site!
  6. Introducing HyperDev

2015 1

  1. Stack Exchange Raises $40m

2014 1

  1. Trello, Inc.

2013 4

  1. Victory Lap for Ask Patents
  2. Free as in Fortune Cookies
  3. The Patent Protection Racket
  4. Town Car Version Control

2012 6

  1. Software Inventory
  2. Trello at UserVoice
  3. The Founder’s Dilemmas
  4. The Management Team
  5. New York City gets a Software Engineering High School
  6. How Trello is different

2011 14

  1. Should you launch at a conference?
  2. Announcing Trello
  3. Stack Overflow DevDays is Back!
  4. NY State Passes Marriage Equality Act
  5. Modern community building
  6. Help us organize the next Stack Overflow conference
  7. Lunch
  8. The podcast is back!
  9. Stack Overflow (the company) is now Stack Exchange
  10. Careers 2.0 (by Stack Overflow)
  11. Does your employer own your side projects?
  12. FogBugz/Kiln Demo
  13. Stack Overflow 2010 recap
  14. The Wikipedia of Long Tail Programming Questions

2010 32

  1. Stack Exchange for Jewish Life and Learning
  2. World Tour – last chance
  3. WebApps.stackexchange.com nothingtoinstall.com now live!
  4. FogBugz and Kiln (coming soon to a city near you)
  5. New, PNG-based Stack Overflow flair
  6. Merging Season
  7. Fork it!
  8. A new WordPress Stack Exchange
  9. Simplicity vs. Choice
  10. The growing empire of Stack Exchange
  11. Domain Names
  12. Web Applications Stack Exchange now in beta
  13. Don Norman at the Business of Software 2009
  14. Area 51 is now in beta
  15. My secret weapon for setting executive compensation
  16. Paul Kenny’s talk at the Business of Software 2009
  17. News 128
  18. Kathy Sierra’s talk at the Business of Software 2009
  19. News 127
  20. Note from Taco
  21. Sites for experts
  22. Stack Exchange 2.0
  23. The Design of Design
  24. Stack Overflow Party
  25. Distributed Version Control is here to stay, baby
  26. Puppy
  27. Facebook / LinkedIn importers
  28. Raising money for StackOverflow
  29. Headcount
  30. Why testers?
  31. Rocket Surgery Made Easy
  32. A little less conversation

2009 53

  1. Secret language
  2. Let’s stop talking about “backups”
  3. Stack stats
  4. When and how to micromanage
  5. Programmer search engine
  6. Upgrade your career
  7. Does Slow Growth Equal Slow Death?
  8. Figuring out what your company is all about
  9. Adam Bosworth on standards
  10. Capstone projects and time management
  11. The “WiFi At Conferences” Problem
  12. The Duct Tape Programmer
  13. Countdown challenge
  14. Upcoming startup workshop in San Francisco
  15. Being Number One
  16. New startup incubator in Cambridge, England
  17. Seth Godin at the Business of Software Conference
  18. The Day My Industry Died
  19. Web Startup Success Guide
  20. EBS 2.0
  21. Fruity treats, customization, and supersonics: FogBugz 7 is here
  22. Why Wolfram Alpha fails
  23. The eternal optimism of the Clear mind
  24. Platform vendors
  25. A visit to Microsoft and Google
  26. Conferences in New York
  27. StackOverflow DevDays: Five New Cities
  28. Get a job
  29. Server Fault now in public beta
  30. Stack Overflow DevDays
  31. Why Circuit City Failed, and Why B&H Thrives
  32. Talk about StackOverflow
  33. The Business of Software 2009 speaker lineup
  34. Win32 programmer needed
  35. Fog Creek Compensation System
  36. Solid State Disks
  37. Stack Overflow Live!
  38. How to be a program manager
  39. Start-up Static
  40. Is the tech recession over?
  41. The New York Times covers the Fog Creek office
  42. New, faster Copilot
  43. From Podcast 38
  44. I am not having any problems with Google
  45. Purchase orders and custom licenses
  46. Open House
  47. Thanks or No Thanks
  48. Open-plan offices make workers sick
  49. “By installing Java, you will be able to experience the power of Java”
  50. Goals
  51. Copilot OneClick for Macintosh
  52. Another resume tip
  53. Animoto

2008 63

  1. The new Fog Creek office
  2. Stack Overflow is a Wiki
  3. From the Department of Badly Chosen Defaults
  4. Future of Web Apps
  5. Snowy day in New York
  6. A new design
  7. Amnesia
  8. Stack Overflow Podcast #32
  9. My Style of Servant Leadership
  10. Stack Overflow Podcast #31
  11. Exploding Offer Season
  12. Stack Overflow Podcast #30
  13. Anecdotes
  14. Stack Overflow Podcast #29
  15. Stack Overflow Podcast #28
  16. The Unproven Path
  17. Stack Overflow Podcast #27
  18. Stack Overflow Podcast #26
  19. Sins of Commissions
  20. Stack Overflow Podcast #25
  21. Hair on fire
  22. Stack Overflow Podcast #24
  23. Imaginary product
  24. Stack Overflow Podcast #22
  25. Stack Overflow Launches
  26. Password management finally possible
  27. Stack Overflow Podcast #21
  28. We’re finally moving!
  29. StackOverflow Podcast #20
  30. StackOverflow Podcast #19
  31. How I Learned to Love Middle Managers
  32. A review of the Nokia E71
  33. StackOverflow Podcast #18
  34. Good System, Bad System
  35. Pecha Kucha
  36. Annual Fog Creek Open House
  37. Don’t hide or disable menu items
  38. Desks
  39. StackOverflow podcasts moving to IT Conversations
  40. Adventures in Office Space
  41. Architecture astronauts take over
  42. Stack Overflow Podcast #2
  43. stackoverflow.com
  44. First Joel on Software conference
  45. Fire and motion, small business edition
  46. Martian Headsets
  47. Marketing internships with Seth Godin
  48. Some interesting jobs
  49. Pressed uniforms, mid-winter tans, and morale
  50. Inspired Misfires
  51. Speakers for Business of Software Conference
  52. A correction to the correction
  53. Some corrections
  54. Why are the Microsoft Office file formats so complicated? (And some workarounds)
  55. Going to Tokyo
  56. TripIt is awesome
  57. Microsoft can’t speak straight any more
  58. :CueCat is back!
  59. Copilot is now free on weekends
  60. Five whys
  61. This year’s Business of Software conference
  62. Undergraduate programming
  63. Voting machine bugs

2007 100

  1. Travel Tips
  2. Getting Lookout to run on Outlook 2007 again
  3. Where there’s muck, there’s brass
  4. Talk at Yale: Part 3 of 3
  5. Talk at Yale: Part 2 of 3
  6. Talk at Yale: Part 1 of 3
  7. How walkable is your neighborhood?
  8. How to demo software
  9. Live from Dublin
  10. European FogBugz world tour this week
  11. News 126
  12. Earthquake!
  13. New websites
  14. Some feedback on EBS
  15. Evidence Based Scheduling
  16. Five easy ways to fail
  17. The Institute for Kiwi Studies
  18. FogBugz World Tour video now available
  19. Eurotour
  20. Sound Scientist
  21. Introducing FogBugz 6.0
  22. Live from Austin
  23. Well, if it hurts, you drive.
  24. Atlanta!
  25. Washington
  26. Another week…
  27. Stop the catalogs
  28. Outsmarting your airline
  29. Hello from San Francisco?
  30. California
  31. Explaining the Excel Bug
  32. Unfocused and Unabashed
  33. Princeton, Philadelphia, Boston
  34. Strategy Letter VI
  35. There’s no place like 127.0.0.1
  36. Spotted at San Jose Airport
  37. Chicago
  38. Seattle
  39. Vancouver, BC
  40. From the utopia department
  41. Even the Office 2007 box has a learning curve
  42. World tour: North America
  43. Year-end chaos
  44. The universe aligns to prove my point
  45. Learning from Dave Winer
  46. Open house today
  47. Gearing up
  48. Vesting
  49. Business of Software Conference
  50. Why we reimplemented SQL Server Mirroring
  51. Fog Creek Open House
  52. Craftsmanship
  53. Mixed environment
  54. Announcing FogBugz On Demand
  55. From the “interesting, but ultimately useless facts” department
  56. Announcing the Business of Software Wiki
  57. Management books
  58. FogBugz World Tour
  59. Web designer wanted
  60. fogcreek.de
  61. Font smoothing, anti-aliasing, and sub-pixel rendering
  62. Apple Safari for Windows: The world’s slowest web browser
  63. Paying for recruiting trips?
  64. A game of inches
  65. Smart and Gets Things Done
  66. Cobranding Copilot
  67. Big company life
  68. Travels
  69. Happy Mother’s Day!
  70. Typical Econ 101 management
  71. Registered users on the discussion groups
  72. Fix your mom’s computer for mother’s day
  73. Edinburgh reception
  74. New software for discussion groups
  75. More about elevators
  76. New elevator technology
  77. Zagreb / Edinburgh
  78. Guest editorial in Inc.
  79. VBA for Macintosh goes away
  80. Deriving your demand curve using exchange rate fluctuations
  81. Outlook 2007: downgrade no longer
  82. Moveable walls
  83. Monday Morning Links
  84. Scoble Show
  85. Job listings for India
  86. Localizing the job board
  87. Office search continues
  88. FogBugz auf Deutsch
  89. Wanted: Tech Writer
  90. Office Space Calculations
  91. Chargebacks
  92. Seven steps to remarkable customer service
  93. Customer service
  94. The MicroISV Show
  95. Founders at Work
  96. Copilot 2.0 ships!
  97. Some reviews…
  98. New version: FogBugz for Visual Studio
  99. The Big Picture
  100. Dreaming in Code

2006 102

  1. Bribing Bloggers
  2. Explaining Steve Gillmor
  3. New year’s resolution: get a better job!
  4. Half a million bugs!
  5. New Stuff!
  6. Elegance
  7. Simplicity
  8. Lego Programming
  9. Pump ‘n’ dump spam
  10. Using source control tools on huge projects
  11. Shutdown in OS X
  12. How many Microsofties does it take to implement the Off menu?
  13. Choices = Headaches
  14. From the “you call this agile?” department
  15. Oh, the emails you’ll get…
  16. The infinite music collection
  17. FogBugz as a help desk application
  18. What’s a SQL Injection Bug?
  19. Job seeker statistics
  20. Internships
  21. The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing (version 3.0)
  22. The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing: version 3.0 now shipping!
  23. The Phone Screen
  24. Book Review: Beyond Java
  25. Джоэл о программировании – only 250 rubles!
  26. New Feature: Job Search
  27. Stevey on Agile
  28. Followup on freezing MacBook Pro
  29. Amazing X-Ray Glasses from Sprint!
  30. Getting MarkDown and SmartyPants working with EditPad Pro
  31. Optimizing method calls
  32. Ruby Performance Revisited
  33. Composing in TextMate with MarkDown
  34. Now accepting summer internship applications
  35. Installing Vista RC1 in VMWare Workstation
  36. Sorting Resumes
  37. A Field Guide to Developers
  38. Company Name = Quality Jobs
  39. Commissioned Headhunters on the Job Board: Good or Bad?
  40. Field Guide to Developers
  41. Finding Great Developers
  42. Introducing jobs.joelonsoftware.com
  43. Cornell Speech
  44. Wasabi
  45. Language Wars
  46. My three favorite Firefox extensions
  47. Links
  48. Loved or Feared?
  49. Superstitious FAQ Writers
  50. Library Apps for Macintosh
  51. There’s got to be a way to do this…
  52. The Identity Management Method
  53. The Econ 101 Management Method
  54. The Command and Control Management Method
  55. Three Management Methods (Introduction)
  56. News 125
  57. Corrections!
  58. Can Your Programming Language Do This?
  59. Why Dell.com Still Feels Like Buying a Used Car
  60. Private Offices Redux
  61. Travelers Insurance: Drop Dead.
  62. Search Box
  63. Open House
  64. Wanted: System / Network Administrator
  65. A solution to tabs-vs.-spaces
  66. My First BillG Review
  67. Gates to Step Down
  68. There are easier ways…
  69. FogBugz 5.0 Ships
  70. FogBugz 4½ and Subjective Well-Being
  71. Lazy Programmer, Didn’t Handle Exception
  72. Aardvark’d Screening in New York
  73. Muriel Spark, 1918-2006
  74. The Development Abstraction Layer
  75. Internship in Graphic Design
  76. Foreword to “Eric Sink on the Business of Software”
  77. Eric Sink on the Business of Software
  78. Best Software Writing – Volume II
  79. What’s the Joel Reddit?
  80. Software Development Productivity Awards
  81. Usability in One Easy Step (First Draft)
  82. Usability in One Easy Step
  83. A lot of travelling
  84. Processing Internship Applications
  85. More on Calendars
  86. VMWare Server Now Free!
  87. Too Many Ajax Calendars
  88. FogBugz/SnagIt
  89. Great Design – Table of Contents
  90. What Makes It Great? (First Draft)
  91. What Makes It Great? (First Draft)
  92. What Makes It Great?
  93. Conferences
  94. Translations
  95. Great Design: What is Design? (First Draft)
  96. What is “Design”?
  97. Introduction to Great Design (First Draft)
  98. Introduction to Great Design (Second Draft, In Progress)
  99. Introduction to Great Design
  100. News, and, the end of ?off
  101. Jolt Award Finalists for 2006
  102. Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality

2005 105

  1. Test Yourself
  2. The Perils of JavaSchools
  3. Saporasaki
  4. Interesting Links
  5. Shipping Update
  6. Behold, the Copilot Beer Pong Table
  7. Shipping Atoms
  8. How to Ship Anything
  9. News 124
  10. Fog Creek Goes to ETech
  11. Aardvark’d DVDs Ship; Final P&L
  12. Reading List
  13. Price as Signal
  14. Aardvark’d DVD Goes on Sale
  15. Asterisk, Ajax, and Astronauts
  16. Webstock: a Web Conference in New Zealand
  17. Massive Frontal PR is incompatible with Ship Early and Often
  18. A Minor Redesign
  19. Fog Creek Software Management Training Program
  20. Why eBay Bought Skype
  21. Something Rotten in AdSense
  22. Architecture Astronauts Are Back
  23. News 123
  24. News 122
  25. News 121
  26. News 120
  27. News 119
  28. News 118
  29. Set Your Priorities
  30. News 117
  31. News 116
  32. News 115
  33. News 114
  34. The Project Aardvark Spec
  35. News 113
  36. News 112
  37. News 111
  38. News 110
  39. News 109
  40. Usability Testing with Morae
  41. News 108
  42. News 107
  43. News 106
  44. Hitting the High Notes
  45. News 105
  46. News 104
  47. News 103
  48. News 102
  49. Project Aardvark Midterm Report
  50. News 101
  51. News 100
  52. News 99
  53. News 98
  54. News 97
  55. News 96
  56. News 95
  57. News 94
  58. News 93
  59. News 92
  60. News 91
  61. News 90
  62. News 89
  63. News 88
  64. News 87
  65. News 86
  66. News 85
  67. Making Wrong Code Look Wrong
  68. News 84
  69. News 83
  70. News 82
  71. News 81
  72. News 80
  73. News 79
  74. News 78
  75. The Road to FogBugz 4.0: Part V
  76. News 77
  77. The Road to FogBugz 4.0: Part IV
  78. News 76
  79. The Road to FogBugz 4.0: Part III
  80. News 75
  81. The Road to FogBugz 4.0: Part II
  82. News 74
  83. The Road to FogBugz 4.0: Part I
  84. News 73
  85. News 72
  86. News 71
  87. News 70
  88. News 69
  89. News 68
  90. News 67
  91. News 66
  92. News 65
  93. News 64
  94. News 63
  95. News 62
  96. Foreword to Painless Project Management with FogBugz, by Mike Gunderloy
  97. News 61
  98. News 60
  99. Colo Expansion Version 2.0
  100. News 59
  101. News 58
  102. News 57
  103. News 56
  104. Advice for Computer Science College Students
  105. News 55

2004 75

  1. News 54
  2. News 53
  3. News 52
  4. News 51
  5. News 50
  6. Camels and Rubber Duckies
  7. News 49
  8. News 48
  9. News 47
  10. News 46
  11. News 45
  12. News 44
  13. News 43
  14. News 42
  15. News 41
  16. News 40
  17. News 39
  18. News 38
  19. News 37
  20. News 36
  21. News 35
  22. News 34
  23. News 33
  24. News 32
  25. News 31
  26. News 30
  27. News 29
  28. News 28
  29. News 27
  30. It’s Not Just Usability
  31. News 26
  32. News 25
  33. News 24
  34. News 23
  35. News 22
  36. News 21
  37. News 20
  38. News 19
  39. News 18
  40. News 17
  41. News 16
  42. News 15
  43. News 14
  44. News 13
  45. News 12
  46. News 11
  47. News 10
  48. News 9
  49. News 8
  50. News 7
  51. News 6
  52. How Microsoft Lost the API War
  53. Mike Gunderloy’s Coder to Developer
  54. News 5
  55. News 4
  56. News 3
  57. 25 2
  58. 04
  59. Top Twelve Tips for Running a Beta Test
  60. 02 2
  61. 28 3
  62. 27 2
  63. 20 4
  64. 31 3
  65. 30 2
  66. 28 2
  67. 27
  68. Getting Your Résumé Read
  69. 26 2
  70. 20 3
  71. 19 3
  72. 17 4
  73. 13 2
  74. 12
  75. 08 3

2003 84

  1. 31 2
  2. 22 3
  3. 15 3
  4. Biculturalism
  5. 01 4
  6. 30
  7. 22 2
  8. 14 3
  9. 07 2
  10. 06
  11. 3
  12. 31
  13. 25
  14. 24 2
  15. 23 2
  16. 21 2
  17. 17 3
  18. 15 2
  19. 14 2
  20. 13
  21. 10
  22. The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)
  23. 01 3
  24. Bionic Office
  25. 24
  26. 19 2
  27. 08 2
  28. 28
  29. 26
  30. 22
  31. 21
  32. 20 2
  33. 08
  34. 02
  35. Rick Chapman is In Search of Stupidity
  36. 01 2
  37. 29
  38. 23
  39. 17 2
  40. 16 2
  41. 14
  42. 01
  43. 20
  44. 19
  45. 17
  46. 16
  47. 15
  48. 11
  49. 07
  50. 05
  51. News 2
  52. Fixing Venture Capital
  53. News
  54. 2003/06/01
  55. 2003/05/16
  56. 2003/04/28
  57. 2003/04/22
  58. 2003/04/21
  59. 2003/04/18
  60. 2003/04/16
  61. Finding an Office in New York City
  62. 2003/03/28
  63. 2003/03/26
  64. 2003/03/24
  65. 2003/03/23
  66. 2003/03/14
  67. 2003/03/07
  68. Building Communities with Software
  69. 2003/03/03
  70. 2003/02/28
  71. 2003/02/25
  72. 2003/02/14
  73. 2003/02/05
  74. 2003/02/04
  75. New Server at Peer 1 Network
  76. 2003/02/03
  77. 2003/01/28
  78. 2003/01/25
  79. 2003/01/16
  80. Mouth Wide Shut
  81. 2003/01/15
  82. 2003/01/09
  83. 2003/01/03
  84. 2003/01/02

2002 97

  1. 2002/12/24
  2. Lord Palmerston on Programming
  3. 2002/12/11
  4. 2002/11/28
  5. 2002/11/25
  6. 2002/11/19
  7. 2002/11/14
  8. 2002/11/13
  9. The Law of Leaky Abstractions
  10. 2002/11/11
  11. 2002/11/08
  12. 2002/11/04
  13. 2002/10/30
  14. 2002/10/28
  15. 2002/10/23
  16. 2002/10/21
  17. 2002/10/19
  18. 2002/10/18
  19. 2002/10/17
  20. 2002/10/16
  21. 2002/10/09
  22. 2002/10/08
  23. 2002/10/07
  24. 2002/10/02
  25. 2002/09/25
  26. 2002/09/19
  27. 2002/09/18
  28. 2002/09/17
  29. 2002/09/13
  30. 2002/09/12
  31. 2002/09/11
  32. 2002/09/10
  33. 2002/09/04
  34. 2002/09/03
  35. Platforms
  36. 2002/08/30
  37. 2002/08/25
  38. 2002/08/19
  39. 2002/08/15
  40. 2002/08/13
  41. 2002/08/05
  42. 2002/07/30
  43. 2002/07/19
  44. 2002/07/18
  45. 2002/07/16
  46. 2002/07/15
  47. 2002/06/25
  48. 2002/06/19
  49. 2002/06/16
  50. 2002/06/15
  51. Strategy Letter V
  52. 2002/06/10
  53. 2002/06/07
  54. 2002/06/06
  55. 2002/05/16
  56. 2002/05/13
  57. 2002/05/10
  58. 2002/05/08
  59. 2002/05/07
  60. Five Worlds
  61. 2002/05/06
  62. 2002/05/05
  63. 2002/04/30
  64. 2002/04/28
  65. 2002/04/27
  66. 2002/04/26
  67. 2002/04/25
  68. 2002/04/19
  69. 2002/04/12
  70. 2002/04/11
  71. 2002/04/10
  72. Picking a Ship Date
  73. 2002/04/07
  74. 2002/04/02
  75. 2002/03/20
  76. 2002/03/18
  77. 2002/03/14
  78. 2002/03/13
  79. 2002/03/11
  80. 2002/03/05
  81. Nothing is as Simple as it Seems
  82. 2002/02/25
  83. 2002/02/09
  84. The Iceberg Secret, Revealed
  85. 2002/02/08
  86. 2002/02/07
  87. 2002/02/06
  88. 2002/02/04
  89. 2002/01/31
  90. 2002/01/24
  91. Rub a dub dub
  92. 2002/01/11
  93. 2002/01/10
  94. 2002/01/08
  95. Fire And Motion
  96. 2002/01/06
  97. 2002/01/02

2001 105

  1. 2001/12/30
  2. 2001/12/26
  3. Getting Things Done When You’re Only a Grunt
  4. 2001/12/25
  5. 2001/12/19
  6. 2001/12/16
  7. Humane Programming
  8. 2001/12/13
  9. 2001/12/12
  10. Back to Basics
  11. 2001/12/10
  12. 2001/12/05
  13. 2001/12/04
  14. 2001/11/30
  15. 2001/11/29
  16. 2001/11/27
  17. 2001/11/22
  18. A Hard Drill Makes an Easy Battle
  19. 2001/11/20
  20. 2001/11/16
  21. 2001/11/14
  22. Working on CityDesk, Part Five
  23. 2001/11/09
  24. 2001/11/07
  25. 2001/11/06
  26. 2001/11/01
  27. Working on CityDesk, Part Four
  28. 2001/10/29
  29. 2001/10/23
  30. 10/19/2001
  31. Working on CityDesk, Part Three
  32. 2001/10/17
  33. 2001/10/16
  34. 2001/10/15
  35. In Defense of Not-Invented-Here Syndrome
  36. 2001/10/14
  37. Working on CityDesk, Part Two
  38. 2001/10/13
  39. Working on CityDesk, Part One
  40. 2001/10/12
  41. 2001/09/24
  42. 2001/09/12
  43. 2001/09/11
  44. 2001/08/31
  45. 2001/08/23
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  51. 2001/08/05
  52. Hard-assed Bug Fixin’
  53. 2001/07/31
  54. 2001/07/16
  55. Good Software Takes Ten Years. Get Used To it.
  56. 2001/07/17
  57. 2001/06/27
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  70. What is the Work of Dogs in this Country?
  71. 2001/05/05
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  74. 2001/04/21
  75. Don’t Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You
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  84. 2001/03/27
  85. How Many Lies Can You Find In One Direct Mail Piece?
  86. 2001/03/24
  87. Strategy Letter IV: Bloatware and the 80/20 Myth
  88. 2001/03/23
  89. Spring in Cambridge
  90. 2001/03/19
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  94. Human Task Switches Considered Harmful
  95. 2001/02/12
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  97. 2001/01/30
  98. Daily Builds Are Your Friend
  99. 2001/01/27
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  103. Big Macs vs. The Naked Chef
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  23. Painless Bug Tracking
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  33. Painless Functional Specifications – Part 4: Tips
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  37. Painless Functional Specifications – Part 3: But… How?
  38. 2000/10/04
  39. Painless Functional Specifications – Part 2: What’s a Spec?
  40. 2000/10/03
  41. Painless Functional Specifications – Part 1: Why Bother?
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  48. Wasting Money on Cats
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  58. The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code
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  68. Whaddaya Mean, You Can’t Find Programmers?
  69. 2000/06/15
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  71. Strategy Letter III: Let Me Go Back!
  72. 2000/06/03
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  74. Strategy Letter II: Chicken and Egg Problems
  75. 2000/05/24
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  77. Strategy Letter I: Ben and Jerry’s vs. Amazon
  78. 2000/05/12
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  80. The Process of Designing a Product
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  85. Top Five (Wrong) Reasons You Don’t Have Testers
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  92. Where do These People Get Their (Unoriginal) Ideas?
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  98. Things You Should Never Do, Part I
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  101. Incentive Pay Considered Harmful
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  104. NDAs and Contracts That You Should Never Sign
  105. 2000/03/28
  106. Command and Conquer and the Herd of Coconuts
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  109. Two Stories
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  111. More on Sabbaticals…
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