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June 2007 - Posts

  • Management books

    I'm reading two very good management books right now. The first is a classic: Up the Organization , by Robert Townsend. Apparently this book first came out in 1970, was widely admired, and slowly fell off everyone's radar, until Wiley republished...
  • FogBugz World Tour

    In another month or two, FogBugz 6.0 (now in beta) will be shipping. It's cool. It's very cool. It has a kiwi. Because I was born without the part of the brain that allows normal people to learn, over time, that Travel is Hell, I thought it would...
  • Web designer wanted

    I'm looking for a freelance web designer located here in New York to redo our sites: fogcreek.com, copilot.com, etc. We need someone with strong xhtml/css skills, a history of making great looking, modern web sites, and some print experience. Know...
  • fogcreek.de

    Fogcreek.de is now completely live, offering full-service sales and support of FogBugz in German from Munich. FogBugz itself works in English or German, based on the user's choice. This is our first real international distributor, and a major milestone...
  • Font smoothing, anti-aliasing, and sub-pixel rendering

    Apple and Microsoft have always disagreed in how to display fonts on computer displays. Today, both companies are using sub-pixel rendering to coax sharper-looking fonts out of typical low resolution screens. Where they differ is in philosophy. Apple...
  • Apple Safari for Windows: The world's slowest web browser

    Apple is advertising Safari for Windows as “the world’s fastest and easiest-to-use web browser.” Fast, maybe, in page rendering speed, but ridiculously slow to launch... on my brand new, 2.33 GHz Core-2 Duo laptop, it takes an insane amount...
  • Paying for recruiting trips?

    bronek asks : I'm from central Europe, looking for programming work in UK. After doing the phone interviews and more or less silly tests, it's time for some face-to-face interviews... Now, I'm not quite comfortable of paying the expenses of...
  • A game of inches

    "Did someone leave the radio on in the bathroom?" I asked Jared. There was a faint sound of classical music. "No. It's coming from outside. It started while you were away and happens every night." We live in an apartment building...
  • Smart and Gets Things Done

    I wrote a book! The title is Smart and Gets Things Done: Joel Spolsky's Concise Guide to Finding the Best Technical Talent . It is, as promised, concise. Even though it's hardback, it's about the size of a paperback romance novel, with wider...
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