View joel grahams profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. Selected and introduced by joel spolsky spolsky, avram joel on. Each month, more than 40 million professional and aspiring programmers visit stack overflow to. Display quotes published to the api dsgn1graphicshubotiheartquotes. Joel on software splosky put together a best of software writing anthology filled with articles he. Its about having a single, authoritative list of bugs. He is best known for his work on lisp, his former startup viaweb later renamed yahoo. Mar 21, 2008 paul grahams participatory narcissism. He is best known for his work on lisp, his former startup viaweb, cofounding the influential startup accelerator and seed capital firm y combinator, his blog, and hacker news. Paul graham had come to work at yahoo for a few years, after theyd bought viaweb. Paul graham s essays like joel spolsky, paul graham started blogging as an excellent writer. For example, i write essays the same way i write software. As the founder of fog creek software in new york city, he created fogbugz, a popular project management system for software teams. Selected and introduced by joel spolsky is an entertaining read and a guide to the technical writing literati.
Does yahoo stores previously viaweb still use lisp. Advice for computer science college students eric raymond. Join facebook to connect with alberto joel rodriguez and others you may know. These denials are available via your emedny inbox or dashboard. Here gruber talks about how its a challenge to write things with lasting value. Jan 19, 2006 i am an avid reader of joel spolsky and paul graham. On writing john gruber, paul graham, joel spolsky, and judge judy. Jan 01, 2005 with a nod to both the serious and funny sides of technical writing, the best software writing i. Its nice having a collection of highquality writing related to software and the business in one place instead of trawling the web for it.
Joel on software s favorite software essays in a book. All his essays are also freely available on his website. Joel spolsky is the cofounder and ceo of fog creek software and the. Software is imperative to be able to meet the new nys medicaid denials. Viaweb was acquired by yahoo in 1998, where it became yahoo store.
For my day job, im the cofounder and ceo of stack overflow, the largest online community for programmers to learn, share their knowledge, and level up. Joel on softwares favorite software essays in a book boing. Jul 03, 2004 is paul graham on to somthing or is he wrong in this instance. Nov 22, 2003 bayesian filtering, invented by paul graham and available in many open source implementations, is the best answer yet. I am an avid reader of joel spolsky and paul graham.
He is best known for his work on the programming language lisp, his former startup viaweb later renamed yahoo. Jon kenoyer saturday, july 3, 2004 paul graham is on something. In the new face of computer applications, i discussed how computing is making a gradual shift from the desktop to the web. Joel graham assistant general counsel for litigation and. He is the author of joel on software, a blog on software development, and the creator of the project management software trello.
See the complete profile on linkedin and discover joels. See the perils of javaschools, in his book more joel on software. Paul grahams participatory narcissism coding horror. Paul graham doesnt have a blog in its classic sense, but rather a. Both of them are an inspiration to people considering a startup. Paul graham likes to brag about the efficiency of lisp programmers. Paul is excellent essayist, and has some refreshing insights.
Lazy programmers who didnt read about how users dont read anything. Jun 21, 2005 joel on software s favorite software essays in a book. Would his yahoo shopping software been improved with an official bug tracking system. His essays repackaged in the book hackers and painters are among the best writing ive found on software engineering. My ever growing list of powershell and other sysadmin related code zloeberpowershell. Youre reading joel on software, stuffed with years and years of completely raving mad articles about software development, managing software teams, designing user interfaces, running successful software companies. His online store software was written in lisp and then sold to yahoo as yahoo stores. This is a book worth checking out, even if youre not a software developer. Jul 16, 2015 our new desktop experience was built to be your music destination. Find authors like paul graham from the worlds largest community of readers.
Frustrated by the lack of wellwritten essays on software engineering, joel spolsky of. The lesson to unlearn by paul graham, in audio youtube. Im not sure ive been doing a good job of this at all lately i think too much of what i write. Joel graham ux developer nexmo, the vonage api platform. In 1995, he and robert morris started viaweb, the first software as a service company. The best software writing i selected and introduced by joel. If you dont know paul graham, he is the founder of ycombinator. Software is a conversation, between the software developer and the user. With joel s newest book, more joel on software, youll get an even better not to mention updated feast of joel s opinions and impressions on software development, software design, running a software business, and so much more. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. All such work tends to be related, in that ideas and techniques from one field can often be transplanted successfully to others. Graham, like joel spolsky before him, has devolved into selfabsorption and irrelevance.
Its bad enough that javaschools fail to weed out the kids who are never going to be great programmers, which the. I sit down and blow out a lame version 1 as fast as i can type, then spend several weeks rewriting it. Joel on softwares favorite software essays in a book. Not all of them are so great, of course, but the majority are well worth your time. Daniel shefer writes joel on software is a collection of essays from the joel spolskys joel on software web log. This, in combination with being inspired by the writings of paul graham hackers and painters, on lisp, joel spolsky joel on software, and jeff atwood. Books recommended by paul graham bookadvice reading list. Paul graham, jessicas husband and partner in y combinator, has. It takes marketing, yes, but also sales, and public relations, and an office, and a network, and infrastructure, and air conditioning in the office, and customer service, and accounting, and a bunch of other support tasks. He later founded fog creek software in 2000 and launched the joel. Joel spolsky is a globally recognized expert on the software development process. Joel graham has 276 posts on their instagram profile. The shlemiel way of software author joel spolsky talks about what microsoft has in common with his grandparents and what isaac bashevis singer has to do with codegenerating schemes.
Hey jeff, i really enjoy reading paul graham, joel spolsky, and coding horror. Paul graham says we dont need bug tracking softwa jon kenoyer. He was a program manager on the microsoft excel team between 1991 and 1994. This is just a quick placeholder hack posti started this site. Goodreads members who liked joel on software also liked. I dont agree with everything he says there, but some of his articles are very enlightening. Follow their account to see all their photos and videos.
Well, its creator, joel spolsky, is also the author of joel on software, a blog. Paul graham calls those superstars hackers and has been thinking about selection from the best software writing i book. Paul grahams participatory narcissism 2008 hacker news. Paul graham is an englishborn computer scientist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, author, and essayist. One great way to engage students using these new web 2. My favorite essays are how to make wealth and why nerds are unpopular.
Paul graham is an englishborn american computer scientist and programmer, entrepreneur. John gruber interview a mix of the technical, the artful, the thoughtful, and the absurd is an interesting interview with the daring fireball writer. Paul graham computer programmer project gutenberg self. But for that conversation to happen requires a lot of work beyond the software development. Most decent web programmers can always figure out how to design. Store, cofounding the influential startup accelerator and seed capital firm y combinator, his blog, and hacker news. The concept has been cited by programmers such as joel spolsky. Joel spolsky is an experienced information technology worker who maintains a site in which he expresses his bold opinions regarding software management and its distribution. Not all of you are going to be right all the time or have the same.
Just because you are a great programmer does not mean you are a great hacker according to graham. They have several articles which motivates people to do stuff they love and make money in the process. On writing john gruber, paul graham, joel spolsky, and. Paul grahams essays like joel spolsky, paul graham started blogging as an excellent writer. In 2001 he started publishing essays on paulgraham.
He later founded fog creek software in 2000 and launched the joel on. Paul grahamgreat hackers1 theres no doubt that a software project wont succeed without the right programming superstars. Find books like joel on software from the worlds largest community of readers. Instead of slowly growing a small company into a sustainable business, paul writes convincingly for the flip side of the coin the fastgrowing startup. With a nod to both the serious and funny sides of technical writing, the best software writing i.
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