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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. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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Software engineering is the application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software. ...
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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 Galil.[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] Nickname: Location in the state of New Mexico Coordinates: , Country United States State New Mexico County Bernalillo Founded 1706 Government - Mayor Martin Chavez Area - City 181. ...
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An American Paratrooper using a MC1-B series parachute Paratroopers are soldiers trained in parachuting and generally operate as part of an airborne force. ...
Kibbutz Dan, near Qiryat Shemona, in the Upper Galilee, 1990s A kibbutz (Hebrew: ; plural: kibbutzim: קיבוצי×; gathering or together) is an Israeli collective intentional community. ...
Hanaton(also spelled Hannaton) (Hebrew: ×—× ×ª×•×Ÿ) is a kibbutz in northern Israel, whose members are affiliated with the Conservative movement of Judaism. ...
Galilee (Arabic al-jaleel الجليل, Hebrew hagalil הגליל), meaning circuit, is a large area overlapping with much of the North District of Israel. ...
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Computer science, or computing science, is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their implementation and application in computer systems. ...
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] Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44. ...
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// Description Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) is an implementation of Microsofts Visual Basic, an event driven programming language and associated development environment which is built into most Microsoft Office applications (including Apple Mac OS versions), some other Microsoft applications such as Microsoft MapPoint and Microsoft Visio - a former independent...
// Description Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) is an implementation of Microsofts Visual Basic, an event driven programming language and associated development environment which is built into most Microsoft Office applications (including Apple Mac OS versions), some other Microsoft applications such as Microsoft MapPoint and Microsoft Visio - a former independent...
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He is openly homosexual and has mentioned that he has a boyfriend named Jared Samet,[5] to whom he dedicated his books User Interface Design for Programmers and Smart and Gets Things Done. Since its coinage, the word homosexuality has acquired multiple meanings. ...
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.
- ^ Spolsky, Joel (June 16, 2006). My First BillG Review. Joel On Software. Retrieved on 2007-02-02.
- ^ Spolsky, Joel (September 11, 2001). 2001/09/11. Joel On Software. Retrieved on 2007-02-04.
Year 2007 (MMVII) is now the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ...
is the 33rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) is now the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ...
is the 35th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) is now the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ...
is the 35th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) is now the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ...
is the 33rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) is now the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ...
is the 35th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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
This book contains 45 of the best articles from Joel on Software (weblog), a weblog on computing, programming, software engineering, and the business side of computer software, from the early rants about hit-and-run management to the 2004 classic How Microsoft Lost the API War, with everything in between. ...
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