Avram Joel Spolsky (born 1965) is a software engineer and writer. He is the author of Joel on Software, a blog on software development, and the creator of the project management software Trello. [2] He was a Program Manager on the Microsoft Excel team between 1991 and 1994. He later founded Fog Creek Software in 2000 and launched the Joel on ...

I’m Joel Spolsky, a software developer in New York City. More about me. Since the 1990s, the web has been a publishing place for human-readable documents. Documents published on the web are in HTML. HTML has a little bit of… “Progress on the Block Protocol” You’ve probably seen web editors based on the idea of blocks.

In 2000 I co-founded Fog Creek Software, where we created lots of cool things like the FogBugz bug tracker, Trello, and Glitch. I also worked with Jeff Atwood to create Stack Overflow and served as CEO of Stack Overflow from 2010-2019.

Aug 9, 2000 · I’m Joel Spolsky, a software developer in New York City. More about me. Have you ever heard of SEMA? It’s a fairly esoteric system for measuring how good a software team is. No, wait! Don’t follow that link! It will take you about six years just to understand that stuff.

Today I serve as the chairman of the board for Stack Overflow, Glitch, and HASH. I served as a paratrooper in the Israeli army, graduated from Yale University in 1991, and spent time on the Excel team at Microsoft where I was the program manager responsible for …

Jan 6, 2025 · As a programmer for over 15 years building everything from real-time trading systems to AI-powered mobile apps, I‘ve relied daily on tools pioneered by legendary software leader Joel Spolsky.

Joel Spolsky founded Fog Creek Software with his friend Michael Pryor in 2000. They didn't have a specific product in mind, but were motivated to start the kind of software company where they would want to work—one where programmers were the stars.

Joel Spolsky is a co-founder and Director of HASH. Previously he founded Stack Overflow ($1.8bn acq. by Prosus), Trello ($425m acq. by Atlassian) and Glitch (acq. by Fastly).

Oct 16, 2024 · Over 20 years ago, future ex-Stack Overflow CEO and Trello creator Joel Spolsky wrote an enduring blog post on “the worst strategic mistake” developers and enterprises can make: writing code from scratch.