December 2007 - Posts

• Travel Tips

  Inc.com published my list of travel tips from the World Tour. You'll learn how we completely avoided air travel snafus, what equipment we brought along, and more. Not loving your job? Visit the Joel on Software Job Board : Great software jobs, great... Posted Dec 24 2007, 05:05 AM by Joel on Software

• Getting Lookout to run on Outlook 2007 again

  The search feature in Microsoft Outlook 2007, frankly, sucks big time. It's slow. Searches take about 30 seconds for me. (I have about 10 years of email). You have to wait for it to fail to find things in your inbox before you're permitted to... Posted Dec 24 2007, 04:20 AM by Joel on Software

• Where there's muck, there's brass

  When I was a kid working in the bread factory, my nemesis was dough. It was sticky and hard to remove and it got everywhere. I got home with specks of dough in my hair. Every shift included a couple of hours of scraping dough off of machinery. I carried... Posted Dec 05 2007, 06:11 PM by Joel on Software

• Talk at Yale: Part 3 of 3

  This is part three of the text of a talk delivered to the Yale Computer Science department on November 28. Part one and part two already appeared. I despaired of finding a company to work for where programmers were treated like talent and not like typists... Posted Dec 05 2007, 04:47 AM by Joel on Software

• Talk at Yale: Part 2 of 3

  This is part two of the text of a talk delivered to the Yale Computer Science department on November 28. Part one appeared yesterday . After a few years in Redmond, Washington, during which I completely failed to adapt to my environment, I beat a hasty... Posted Dec 04 2007, 04:47 AM by Joel on Software

• Talk at Yale: Part 1 of 3

  This is part one of the text of a talk delivered to the Yale Computer Science department on November 28. The rest of the talk will be published tomorrow and Wednesday. I graduated with a BS in Computer Science in 1991. Sixteen years ago. What I’m going... Posted Dec 03 2007, 04:42 AM by Joel on Software