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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 product management software Trello. 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 100 Q&A sites.
Spolsky grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and lived there until he was 15. He then moved with his family to Jerusalem, Israel, where he attended high school and completed his military service as a paratrooper. He was one of the founders of the kibbutz Hanaton in Lower Galilee. 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 was a member of Pierson College and graduated in 1991 with a BS summa cum laude in Computer Science.
Stack Overflow is a privately held website, the flagship site of the Stack Exchange Network, created in 2008 by Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky. It was created to be a more open alternative to earlier Q&A sites such as Experts-Exchange. The name for the website was chosen by voting in April 2008 by readers of Coding Horror, Atwood's popular programming blog.
It features questions and answers on a wide range of topics in computer programming.
The website serves as a platform for users to ask and answer questions, and, through membership and active participation, to vote questions and answers up or down and edit questions and answers in a fashion similar to a wiki or Digg. Users of Stack Overflow can earn reputation points and "badges"; for example, a person is awarded 10 reputation points for receiving an "up" vote on an answer given to a question, and can receive badges for their valued contributions, which represents a kind of gamification of the traditional Q&A site or forum. All user-generated content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribute-ShareAlike license.
Joel or Yoel is a name meaning "Jehovah Is God" and may refer to:
Fog Creek Software is a software company specializing in project management tools. Its main products are FogBugz, a web-based project management tool; Copilot, a remote assistance tool; CityDesk, a desktop-based content management system; and Kiln, a source control and code review tool built around Mercurial and Git.
Based in New York City, Fog Creek was founded in 2000 as a consulting company by Joel Spolsky and Michael Pryor. As the consulting market started to dry up due to the collapse of the Dot-com bubble, Fog Creek moved to a product-based business, releasing FogBugz and CityDesk in 2001.
In 2005, the company released Fog Creek Copilot, along with a documentary detailing the development process of the interns who created it.
One of the company's goals is to make the best programming work space possible. Its first large office, in Midtown Manhattan, was custom designed by architect Roy Leone. It featured angled walls to allow programmers a window next to their computer monitor to reduce eye strain. Fog Creek's new offices, located in the Financial District of Manhattan have been similarly designed, this time with adjustable height standing desks, a library, and fully stocked kitchen.
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Joel Spolsky from Stack Overflow speaking on 'What do top programmers really care about when looking for a job' at Talent Leaders Connect Feb 2014 #TLCon Listen in to this presentation in podcast form at http://thejobpost.podbean.com/ Subscribe to TheJobPost Channel http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=TheJobPost WEBSITE http://www.thejobpost.co.uk TWITTER http://www.twitter.com/thejobpost LINKEDIN https://www.linkedin.com/groups/Talent-Leaders-Connect-TLCon-7470744/about ITUNES http://bit.ly/11aFFNI
Keynote speech by Joel Spolsky (CEO & Co-founder of Stack Overflow) at Slush 2016. Slush 2017 will take place in Helsinki, Finland on November 30–December 1! Slush 2016 in pictures: https://www.flickr.com/photos/slushmedia/albums Website: http://www.slush.org Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/slushHQ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/slushHQ Instagram: http://instagram.com/SlushHQ Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/company/slush Intro videos by: Tailorframe (tailorframe.com) VAU (http://vau.company/) Veli Creative (velicreative.fi) In 2016, Slush brought together 17,500 attendees, including 2,336 startups, 1,146 investors and 610 journalists from 124 countries. People from more than half of the world’s countries traveled to the cold and dark Helsinki, with the ambition of taking their ...
(a private presentation to Stack Overflow, Trello, and Fog Creek) The way you are using Excel causes errors, creates incomprehensible spaghetti spreadsheets, and makes me want to stab out my own eyes. Enough of the =VLOOKUPs with the C3:$F$38. You don't even know what that means. Notes are located at the Trello Board https://trello.com/b/HGITnpih/you-suck-at-excel Apologies to Donnie Hoyle http://www.mydamnchannel.com/you_suck_at_photoshop/season_1/yousuckatphotoshop1distortwarpandlayereffects_1373
Joel Spolsky is the CEO and founder of Stack Overflow, the premiere question and answer site about computer programming. He also founded Fog Creek Software, created Trello, and is the author of Joel on Software, one of the first (and best) computer programming blogs. Joel and Leo talk about Joel's history with Microsoft, Juno, and Fog Creek, as well as why Stack Overflow works so well, and Fog Creek's newest programming environment, Gomix. Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/triangulation.
Join us for a conversation with Joel Spolsky, founder and CEO of Stack Overflow, the #1 site for developers to ask and answer programming questions. During this chat, Joel will talk about his experiences scaling startups and what it takes to build a developer-centric culture in the workplace. Joel is a globally recognized expert on software development and is known by developers around the world for his website Joel on Software. In 2000, he founded his first company, Fog Creek Software, which creates project management tools for software developers, including Trello, which recently spun out into its own company. This chat was moderated by Peter Marx, CTO City of Los Angeles. Stay connected to our community! Subscribe- http://www.youtube.com/subscription_c... GA Facebook- https://www.faceb...
Watch Full Episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3tuXqtWxVk .@spolsky @StackOverflow shares advice he would give himself if he could go back in time-w/@jason-THX @ScottEdWalker FOR FULL SHOW NOTES, SUBSCRIBE TO: http://thisweekinstartups.com/about/#allsubscribe Accelerator programs have become an invaluable force in the world of startups. In episode 644 of This Week in Startups, Jason interviews a panel of accelerator thought leaders on the LAUNCH Stage at the 2016 LAUNCH Festival. Dave McClure of 500 Startups, Emily Kirsch of Powerhouse, and Cameron Teitelman of StartX convene to discuss the benefits of enrolling in an incubator, and the differences between the major accelerators available today. Then, Joel Spolsky sits down with Jason to talk about his massively successful Q&A; web...
Joel on Software, live! Insights into the modern world of software development from an engineer and entrepreneur whose musings on technology have entertained, informed and influenced the culture of programming for nearly two decades. He’s the the co-founder of Fog Creek Software, the CEO of developer site Stack Overflow, and the co-founder of project management service Trello. Read the story: http://www.geekwire.com/2016/just-shut-let-devs-concentrate-programming-expert-advises/
On Thursday, July 9, Startup Grind NYC hosted Joel Spolsky, founder and CEO of Stack Exchange.
Google Tech Talk April 24, 2009 ABSTRACT Presented by Joel Spolsky Until recently, searching for help on highly technical programming problems has been a mess. A lot of what the search engines found was old discussions in forums, where you have a lot of wrong answers and out-of-date answers that you have to sift through yourself. You also found a lot of answers at sites that were hidden behind a pay wall, which uncloaked themselves for Google and then demanded membership fees to see the answers. StackOverflow.com is a programmer's Q&A; site that launched last September to address these problems. It incorporates more modern ideas about community such as voting and public editing, and even a few ideas from game design, to create a much more successful way to get help with program...
Think hiring the best engineers is tough? What about keeping engineers engaged once they are a part of your organization? Watch the video to hear how Joel Spolsky, founder and CEO of Stack Overflow, and Igor Shindel, CIO of AppNexus, think about these issues and discuss what it takes to build and manage a world-class engineering organization. This event is part of the Tech Talks @AppNexus series. Learn more at http://www.meetup.com/TechTalks-AppNexus-NYC/
Joel on Software, live! Insights into the modern world of software development from an engineer and entrepreneur whose musings on technology have entertained, informed and influenced the culture of programming for nearly two decades. He’s the the co-founder of Fog Creek Software, the CEO of developer site Stack Overflow, and the co-founder of project management service Trello. Read the story: http://www.geekwire.com/2016/just-shut-let-devs-concentrate-programming-expert-advises/
Stack Overflow's Joel Spolsky was interviewed in the London Technology Week Arena - June 2015
Watch Full Episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3tuXqtWxVk .@spolsky @StackOverflow shares advice he would give himself if he could go back in time-w/@jason-THX @ScottEdWalker FOR FULL SHOW NOTES, SUBSCRIBE TO: http://thisweekinstartups.com/about/#allsubscribe Accelerator programs have become an invaluable force in the world of startups. In episode 644 of This Week in Startups, Jason interviews a panel of accelerator thought leaders on the LAUNCH Stage at the 2016 LAUNCH Festival. Dave McClure of 500 Startups, Emily Kirsch of Powerhouse, and Cameron Teitelman of StartX convene to discuss the benefits of enrolling in an incubator, and the differences between the major accelerators available today. Then, Joel Spolsky sits down with Jason to talk about his massively successful Q&A; web...
Stack Overflow Careers supports employers in their recruitment search for technical talent. We understand that it is difficult to hire developers and offer a range of services and expert advice to help your hiring process. ''The world of software development and hiring software developers is unbelievably competitive. We've done surveys of developers and we found that probably the number one thing that they are looking for in a career is the opportunity to learn something new.''
Intervista a Joel Spolsky alla RailsConf 2008 di Portland
Stack Overflow Careers support employers in their recruitment search for technical talent. With 4.59 job postings for every job-seeking developer we understand that hiring is a long-term process ''You almost have to think about this as a long term process. Rather than thinking about it like a single process ''in 30 days I will fill that job and its over.'' Think about it more like an assembly line that you're trying to set up and optimise so that it is delivering the candidates you need at the rate that you need them.''
On Thursday, July 9, Startup Grind NYC hosted Joel Spolsky, founder and CEO of Stack Exchange.
Keynote speech by Joel Spolsky (CEO & Co-founder of Stack Overflow) at Slush 2016. Slush 2017 will take place in Helsinki, Finland on November 30–December 1! Slush 2016 in pictures: https://www.flickr.com/photos/slushmedia/albums Website: http://www.slush.org Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/slushHQ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/slushHQ Instagram: http://instagram.com/SlushHQ Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/company/slush Intro videos by: Tailorframe (tailorframe.com) VAU (http://vau.company/) Veli Creative (velicreative.fi) In 2016, Slush brought together 17,500 attendees, including 2,336 startups, 1,146 investors and 610 journalists from 124 countries. People from more than half of the world’s countries traveled to the cold and dark Helsinki, with the ambition of taking their ...
Stack Exchange CEO Joel Spolsky talks about the competition
Stack Overflow Careers supports employers in their recruitment search for technical talent. We are passionate about getting developers jobs that really excite them and our goal is to match them to the perfect company. ''Our number one obsession is in serving software developers and making things great for software developers. So, our mission with Stack Overflow Careers is to take our giant worldwide audience of 24 million developers and essentially get them better jobs.''
Joel Spolsky from Stack Overflow speaking on 'What do top programmers really care about when looking for a job' at Talent Leaders Connect Feb 2014 #TLCon Listen in to this presentation in podcast form at http://thejobpost.podbean.com/ Subscribe to TheJobPost Channel http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=TheJobPost WEBSITE http://www.thejobpost.co.uk TWITTER http://www.twitter.com/thejobpost LINKEDIN https://www.linkedin.com/groups/Talent-Leaders-Connect-TLCon-7470744/about ITUNES http://bit.ly/11aFFNI
Keynote speech by Joel Spolsky (CEO & Co-founder of Stack Overflow) at Slush 2016. Slush 2017 will take place in Helsinki, Finland on November 30–December 1! Slush 2016 in pictures: https://www.flickr.com/photos/slushmedia/albums Website: http://www.slush.org Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/slushHQ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/slushHQ Instagram: http://instagram.com/SlushHQ Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/company/slush Intro videos by: Tailorframe (tailorframe.com) VAU (http://vau.company/) Veli Creative (velicreative.fi) In 2016, Slush brought together 17,500 attendees, including 2,336 startups, 1,146 investors and 610 journalists from 124 countries. People from more than half of the world’s countries traveled to the cold and dark Helsinki, with the ambition of taking their ...
(a private presentation to Stack Overflow, Trello, and Fog Creek) The way you are using Excel causes errors, creates incomprehensible spaghetti spreadsheets, and makes me want to stab out my own eyes. Enough of the =VLOOKUPs with the C3:$F$38. You don't even know what that means. Notes are located at the Trello Board https://trello.com/b/HGITnpih/you-suck-at-excel Apologies to Donnie Hoyle http://www.mydamnchannel.com/you_suck_at_photoshop/season_1/yousuckatphotoshop1distortwarpandlayereffects_1373
Joel Spolsky is the CEO and founder of Stack Overflow, the premiere question and answer site about computer programming. He also founded Fog Creek Software, created Trello, and is the author of Joel on Software, one of the first (and best) computer programming blogs. Joel and Leo talk about Joel's history with Microsoft, Juno, and Fog Creek, as well as why Stack Overflow works so well, and Fog Creek's newest programming environment, Gomix. Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/triangulation.
Join us for a conversation with Joel Spolsky, founder and CEO of Stack Overflow, the #1 site for developers to ask and answer programming questions. During this chat, Joel will talk about his experiences scaling startups and what it takes to build a developer-centric culture in the workplace. Joel is a globally recognized expert on software development and is known by developers around the world for his website Joel on Software. In 2000, he founded his first company, Fog Creek Software, which creates project management tools for software developers, including Trello, which recently spun out into its own company. This chat was moderated by Peter Marx, CTO City of Los Angeles. Stay connected to our community! Subscribe- http://www.youtube.com/subscription_c... GA Facebook- https://www.faceb...
Watch Full Episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3tuXqtWxVk .@spolsky @StackOverflow shares advice he would give himself if he could go back in time-w/@jason-THX @ScottEdWalker FOR FULL SHOW NOTES, SUBSCRIBE TO: http://thisweekinstartups.com/about/#allsubscribe Accelerator programs have become an invaluable force in the world of startups. In episode 644 of This Week in Startups, Jason interviews a panel of accelerator thought leaders on the LAUNCH Stage at the 2016 LAUNCH Festival. Dave McClure of 500 Startups, Emily Kirsch of Powerhouse, and Cameron Teitelman of StartX convene to discuss the benefits of enrolling in an incubator, and the differences between the major accelerators available today. Then, Joel Spolsky sits down with Jason to talk about his massively successful Q&A; web...
Joel on Software, live! Insights into the modern world of software development from an engineer and entrepreneur whose musings on technology have entertained, informed and influenced the culture of programming for nearly two decades. He’s the the co-founder of Fog Creek Software, the CEO of developer site Stack Overflow, and the co-founder of project management service Trello. Read the story: http://www.geekwire.com/2016/just-shut-let-devs-concentrate-programming-expert-advises/
On Thursday, July 9, Startup Grind NYC hosted Joel Spolsky, founder and CEO of Stack Exchange.
Google Tech Talk April 24, 2009 ABSTRACT Presented by Joel Spolsky Until recently, searching for help on highly technical programming problems has been a mess. A lot of what the search engines found was old discussions in forums, where you have a lot of wrong answers and out-of-date answers that you have to sift through yourself. You also found a lot of answers at sites that were hidden behind a pay wall, which uncloaked themselves for Google and then demanded membership fees to see the answers. StackOverflow.com is a programmer's Q&A; site that launched last September to address these problems. It incorporates more modern ideas about community such as voting and public editing, and even a few ideas from game design, to create a much more successful way to get help with program...
Think hiring the best engineers is tough? What about keeping engineers engaged once they are a part of your organization? Watch the video to hear how Joel Spolsky, founder and CEO of Stack Overflow, and Igor Shindel, CIO of AppNexus, think about these issues and discuss what it takes to build and manage a world-class engineering organization. This event is part of the Tech Talks @AppNexus series. Learn more at http://www.meetup.com/TechTalks-AppNexus-NYC/
Joel Spolsky from Stack Overflow speaking on 'What do top programmers really care about when looking for a job' at Talent Leaders Connect Feb 2014 #TLCon Listen in to this presentation in podcast form at http://thejobpost.podbean.com/ Subscribe to TheJobPost Channel http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=TheJobPost WEBSITE http://www.thejobpost.co.uk TWITTER http://www.twitter.com/thejobpost LINKEDIN https://www.linkedin.com/groups/Talent-Leaders-Connect-TLCon-7470744/about ITUNES http://bit.ly/11aFFNI
Keynote speech by Joel Spolsky (CEO & Co-founder of Stack Overflow) at Slush 2016. Slush 2017 will take place in Helsinki, Finland on November 30–December 1! Slush 2016 in pictures: https://www.flickr.com/photos/slushmedia/albums Website: http://www.slush.org Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/slushHQ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/slushHQ Instagram: http://instagram.com/SlushHQ Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/company/slush Intro videos by: Tailorframe (tailorframe.com) VAU (http://vau.company/) Veli Creative (velicreative.fi) In 2016, Slush brought together 17,500 attendees, including 2,336 startups, 1,146 investors and 610 journalists from 124 countries. People from more than half of the world’s countries traveled to the cold and dark Helsinki, with the ambition of taking their ...
(a private presentation to Stack Overflow, Trello, and Fog Creek) The way you are using Excel causes errors, creates incomprehensible spaghetti spreadsheets, and makes me want to stab out my own eyes. Enough of the =VLOOKUPs with the C3:$F$38. You don't even know what that means. Notes are located at the Trello Board https://trello.com/b/HGITnpih/you-suck-at-excel Apologies to Donnie Hoyle http://www.mydamnchannel.com/you_suck_at_photoshop/season_1/yousuckatphotoshop1distortwarpandlayereffects_1373
Joel Spolsky is the CEO and founder of Stack Overflow, the premiere question and answer site about computer programming. He also founded Fog Creek Software, created Trello, and is the author of Joel on Software, one of the first (and best) computer programming blogs. Joel and Leo talk about Joel's history with Microsoft, Juno, and Fog Creek, as well as why Stack Overflow works so well, and Fog Creek's newest programming environment, Gomix. Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/triangulation.
Join us for a conversation with Joel Spolsky, founder and CEO of Stack Overflow, the #1 site for developers to ask and answer programming questions. During this chat, Joel will talk about his experiences scaling startups and what it takes to build a developer-centric culture in the workplace. Joel is a globally recognized expert on software development and is known by developers around the world for his website Joel on Software. In 2000, he founded his first company, Fog Creek Software, which creates project management tools for software developers, including Trello, which recently spun out into its own company. This chat was moderated by Peter Marx, CTO City of Los Angeles. Stay connected to our community! Subscribe- http://www.youtube.com/subscription_c... GA Facebook- https://www.faceb...
Joel on Software, live! Insights into the modern world of software development from an engineer and entrepreneur whose musings on technology have entertained, informed and influenced the culture of programming for nearly two decades. He’s the the co-founder of Fog Creek Software, the CEO of developer site Stack Overflow, and the co-founder of project management service Trello. Read the story: http://www.geekwire.com/2016/just-shut-let-devs-concentrate-programming-expert-advises/
On Thursday, July 9, Startup Grind NYC hosted Joel Spolsky, founder and CEO of Stack Exchange.
Developers are unsung heroes: the creators of code which powers the technologies enabling innovation and growth, in London and around the world. Joel celebrates developers and the impact they make on every aspect of our lives.
Google Tech Talk April 24, 2009 ABSTRACT Presented by Joel Spolsky Until recently, searching for help on highly technical programming problems has been a mess. A lot of what the search engines found was old discussions in forums, where you have a lot of wrong answers and out-of-date answers that you have to sift through yourself. You also found a lot of answers at sites that were hidden behind a pay wall, which uncloaked themselves for Google and then demanded membership fees to see the answers. StackOverflow.com is a programmer's Q&A; site that launched last September to address these problems. It incorporates more modern ideas about community such as voting and public editing, and even a few ideas from game design, to create a much more successful way to get help with program...
Joel Spolsky, founder of StackExchange and Fog Creek Software, at Y Combinator Startup School on October 20, 2012. Presented in Stanford Memorial Auditorium by Y Combinator and the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.