Joel Spolsky at the Stack Exchange London office, June 2014.
Born
1965 (age 58–59)
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
Nationality
American, New Zealand, Israeli, Dual citizenship[1]
Alma mater
Yale University
Occupation(s)
Software developer CEO, Stack Exchange Network Co-founder, Stack Overflow, Fog Creek Software and Trello
Website
joelonsoftware.com
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 Software blog. In 2008, he launched the Stack Overflow programmer Q&A site in collaboration with Jeff Atwood. Using the Stack Exchange software product which powers Stack Overflow, the Stack Exchange Network now hosts over 170 Q&A sites.
^Spolsky, Joel; Atwood, Jeff (July 8, 2008). "Stack Overflow podcast #13". Retrieved August 4, 2013.
^Joel Spolsky interviewed on the TV show Triangulation on the TWiT.tv network
Avram JoelSpolsky (born 1965) is a software engineer and writer. He is the author of Joel on Software, a blog on software development, and the creator...
stages. Trello was released at a TechCrunch event by Fog Creek founder JoelSpolsky. In September 2011 Wired magazine named the application one of "The 7...
the Stack Exchange Network. It was created in 2008 by Jeff Atwood and JoelSpolsky. It features questions and answers on certain computer programming topics...
that leaks details that it is supposed to abstract away. As coined by JoelSpolsky, the Law of Leaky Abstractions states: All non-trivial abstractions,...
the initial site Stack Overflow which was created by Jeff Atwood and JoelSpolsky in 2008. Further Q&A sites in the network are established, defined, and...
is often used pejoratively. The concept was popularized by developer JoelSpolsky in his 2001 essay, "Don't let architecture astronauts scare you", in...
DDE". The Old New Thing. Archived from the original on 15 Mar 2019. JoelSpolsky - comment on Fog Creek Software discussion forum NetDDE has been removed...
distributed version control system. In 2010, software development author JoelSpolsky described distributed version control systems as "possibly the biggest...
made the use of C in systems programming very challenging. JoelSpolsky (29 December 2005). "Joel on Software - The Perils of JavaSchools". joelonsoftware...
Interface Design for Programmers, by JoelSpolsky, published by Apress on June 26, 2001, based on his blog Joel on Software.[citation needed] An early...
problem so that the programmer is able to solve them appropriately. JoelSpolsky has suggested using a form of Hungarian notation that indicates whether...
scandal". The Verge. Feb 4, 2014. "The Evolution of JoelSpolsky". Managing Greatness. May 15, 2010. "Joel's Web Page". Archived from the original on 2018-11-03...
the user. The term can also be used for non-computer-related mistakes. JoelSpolsky points out that users usually do not pay full attention to the computer...
"Hungarian Notation". MSDN Library. Microsoft Corp. Spolsky, Joel (2005-05-11). "Making Wrong Code Look Wrong". Joel on Software. Retrieved 2005-12-13. "Mozilla...
schlemiels, with its rabbi even taking it as a given name. Software engineer JoelSpolsky coined the term Schlemiel the Painter's algorithm in 2001, based on a...
the implementation and design work which has already been completed. JoelSpolsky, a popular online commentator on software development, has argued strongly...
April 2012. "Keyboard shortcuts in Windows". support.microsoft.com. "Survival TECO". "About Unicode and Character Sets", JoelSpolsky, Joel on Software...
and validation ISO/IEC/IEEE 24765:2010 Systems and software engineering — Vocabulary Painless Functional Specifications, 4-part series by JoelSpolsky...
worth installing and using, even though it's available free of charge". JoelSpolsky, a computer technology reviewer, also criticized the device as "not solving...
2024, has 107 episodes. The podcast has had some notable guests such as JoelSpolsky (creator of Trello and Stack Overflow), Jeff Atwood (co-founded Stack...
Archived from the original on 13 November 2014. Retrieved 17 November 2014. JoelSpolsky (November 8, 2000). "Painless Bug Tracking". Retrieved 29 October 2010...
January 10, 2015. Spolsky, Joel (February 19, 2008). "Why are the Microsoft Office file formats so complicated? (And some workarounds)". Joel on Software....
showing the images Jakob Nielsen, Alertbox. "10 Best Application UIs". JoelSpolsky, User Interface Design for Programmers: Designing for People Who Have...