Joel Spolsky ( born Joel Spolsky , born in 1965 ) is a programmer and writer. Known primarily as the author of the blog "Joel on Software" ( Joel on Software ), in which he discusses programming issues, especially under Windows . In 1991-1994, he served as product manager in the Microsoft Excel team. He founded the company Fog Creek Software , in which he now works.
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| Place of Birth | Albuquerque , New Mexico |
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| Occupation | Programmer , CEO of Fog Creek Software |
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Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Publications
- 3 References
- 4 notes
Biography
Spolsky was born in Albuquerque , New Mexico , and lived there until he was 15 years old [2] . Then, with his family, he moved to Jerusalem in Israel , where he graduated from high school and served in the airborne troops [2] . In 1987, he returned to the USA to go to college . He studied at the University of Pennsylvania for a year, until he transferred to Pearson College at Yale University , where in 1991 he received a diploma in computer science with honors [2] .
Spolsky began working at Microsoft in 1991 [3] as the head of the Microsoft Excel programmer team, where he designed Excel Basic [4] . He moved to New York in 1995, where he worked for Viacom and Juno. [2] In 2000, he founded Fog Creek Software and created the Joel Software Blog [3] . “Joel about software” was “one of the first blogs started by a businessman” [5] .
Spolsky is a co-founder (jointly with Jeff Atwood) of the Stack Overflow question and answer system [6] . Jeff left the team in February 2012. [7]
He is also the author of the kanban program for small companies for production planning - Trello .
Publications
- User Interface Design for Programmers , Apress, 2001. ISBN 1-893115-94-1
- Joel on Software , Apress, 2004. ISBN 1-59059-389-8 ; Russian translation: Joel on programming , Symbol-Plus, 2006, ISBN 5-93286-063-4
- The Best Software Writing I , Apress, 2005. ISBN 1-59059-500-9 ; Russian translation: Best examples of software development , Peter, 2006, ISBN 5-469-01291-3
- Smart and Gets Things Done: Joel Spolsky's Concise Guide to Finding the Best Technical Talent , Apress, 2007. ISBN 1-59059-838-5 ; Russian translation: Joel Spolsky’s Guide for the Selection and Management of Programmers Williams, 2008, ISBN 978-5-8459-1354-8
- More Joel on Software: Further Thoughts on Diverse and Occasionally Related Matters That Will Prove of Interest to Software Developers, Designers, and to Those Who, Whether by Good Fortune or Ill Luck, Work with Them in Some Capacity , Apress, 2008. ISBN 1 -4302-0987-9 ; Russian translation: Joel. And again about programming , Symbol-Plus, 2009, ISBN 978-5-93286-144-8
Links
- Personal website
- Joel on Software - Joel's Blog
- Joel Spolsky articles (wiki) - articles translated into Russian
- Joel about software - articles translated into Russian
Notes
- ↑ SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Spolsky, Joel About Joel Spolsky . Joel On Software (October 30, 2005). Date of treatment February 2, 2007. Archived February 20, 2012.
- ↑ 1 2 Livingston, Jessica Interview: Joel Spolsky Co-Founder, Fog Creek Software . Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days . Apress (January 22, 2007). Date of treatment February 4, 2007. Archived February 20, 2012.
- ↑ An Interview with Joel Spolsky (inaccessible link) . SoftLetter.com . Date of treatment September 21, 2007. Archived May 15, 2006.
- ↑ How Hard Could it Be . Inc.com . Date of treatment April 9, 2008. Archived February 20, 2012.
- ↑ Stack Overflow
- ↑ Farewell Stack Exchange . Date of treatment March 13, 2012. Archived June 3, 2012.