Joel Spolsky
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| Joel Spolsky | |
 Joel Spolsky speaking with demonstration attendees, after presenting his company's FogBugz software in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.
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| Born | 1965 Albuquerque, New Mexico |
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| Occupation | Software developer CEO, Fog Creek Software |
| Website http://joel.spolsky.com |
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Joel Spolsky (born 1965) is a software engineer and writer. He is the author of Joel on Software, a blog on software development targeted mainly at writers of Windows software. He was a Program Manager on the Microsoft Excel team between 1991 and 1994 and later founded Fog Creek Software.
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[edit] Biography
Spolsky grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico and lived there until he was 15.[1] He then moved with his family to Jerusalem, Israel where he attended high school and did his military service as a paratrooper.[1] He was one of the founders of Kibbutz Hanaton in Upper Galilee.[2] In 1987, he returned to the United States to attend college. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania for a year before transferring to Yale University, where he graduated in 1991 with a BS summa cum laude in Computer Science.[1]
Spolsky started working at Microsoft in 1991,[3] as a Program Manager on the Microsoft Excel team, where he designed Excel Basic and drove Microsoft's Visual Basic for Applications strategy.[4] He moved to New York City in 1995 where he worked for Viacom and Juno.[1] In 2000, he founded Fog Creek Software and created the Joel on Software weblog.[3] Joel on Software was "one of the first blogs set up by a business owner"[5].
He is the author of four books, including User Interface Design for Programmers and Smart and Gets Things Done; both of which he has dedicated to his boyfriend, Jared.[6]
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d Spolsky, Joel (October 30, 2005). About Joel Spolsky. Joel On Software. Retrieved on 2007-02-02.
- ^ Spolsky, Joel. Joel Spolsky. joel.spolsky.com. Retrieved on 2007-02-04.
- ^ a b Livingston, Jessica (January 22, 2007). Interview: Joel Spolsky Co-Founder, Fog Creek Software. Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days. Apress. Retrieved on 2007-02-04.
- ^ An Interview with Joel Spolsky. SoftLetter.com. Retrieved on 2007-09-21.
- ^ How Hard Could it Be. Inc.com. Retrieved on 2008-04-09.
- ^ Spolsky, Joel (September 11, 2001). 2001/09/11. Joel On Software. Retrieved on 2007-02-04.
[edit] Publications
- User Interface Design for Programmers, Apress, 2001. ISBN 1-893115-94-1
- Joel on Software: And on Diverse and Occasionally Related Matters That Will Prove of Interest to Software Developers, Designers, and Managers, and to Those Who, Whether by Good Fortune or Ill Luck, Work with Them in Some Capacity, Apress, 2004. ISBN 1-59059-389-8
- The Best Software Writing I: Selected and Introduced by Joel Spolsky, Apress, 2005. ISBN 1-59059-500-9
- Smart and Gets Things Done: Joel Spolsky's Concise Guide to Finding the Best Technical Talent, Apress, 2007. ISBN 1-59059-838-5
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