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| oJoS Statistics - Individual Statistics for 'pb' | ||
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Number of Comments: 418 |
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| Number of Words: 14,243 | ||
| First Comment: 16 Jan 2002 | ||
| Final Comment: 16 Jun 2004 | ||
Number of Topics Posted: 13 |
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| First Topic: 26 Apr 2002 | ||
| Latest Topic: 18 May 2004 | ||
| When | Item | Comment |
| 16 Jun 2004 | How Microsoft Lost t.... | Another great piece from Joel. Thanks. The prob.... >> |
| 18 May 2004 | NUnit vs DotUnit >> | |
| 26 Feb 2004 | Laughable Web Servic.... | http://www.xignite.com/ >> |
| 28 Jan 2004 | orkut on .net >> | |
| 12 Jan 2004 | Intellectual Propert.... | Sweep your sour grapes under the rung and move on. >> |
| Can't Copy Money | I think this is just a clever marketing tactic to .... >> | |
| 18 Dec 2003 | Defining moment in c.... | 'The IBM PC was definitely a late entrant and offe.... >> |
| 15 Dec 2003 | Biculturalism | Would there be a web without *nix's textuality? .... >> |
| 10 Nov 2003 | Plone | It's nearly inconceivable that a usable site could.... >> |
| iTunes and iPod | Firstly, Jobs is mostly posturing. Since his is th.... >> | |
| 20 Oct 2003 | CityDesk too much fo.... | It's kind of lame to come here, bash the forum own.... >> |
| 13 Oct 2003 | A solution to spam? | No one's going to pay per email because there will.... >> |
| 12 Oct 2003 | Cloudmark. >> | |
| Magazines - How do y.... | Toss 'em. Those reporting that they scan or photo .... >> | |
| 09 Oct 2003 | Design Oversight | It's a joke that anyone thinks $9.95/month for a l.... >> |
| 02 Oct 2003 | New Microsoft Patent.... | I'm sure FogCreek are shaking in their boots. >> |
| 18 Sep 2003 | Did Microsoft really.... | 'Did Microsoft really rip off the GUI from Apple?'.... >> |
| 15 Sep 2003 | basic economics | Here are a couple: http://www.amazon.com/exec/o.... >> |
| Mozilla XUL for new .... | If you have to get buy-in, I'd stay away from it. .... >> | |
| How to handle dodgy .... | Choose your battles and do your job. If setting up.... >> | |
| 10 Sep 2003 | huge spam messages a.... | Cloudmark is the best I've found. Seems to work be.... >> |
| Dot Com sites that a.... | http://www.etrade.com http://www.ebay.com http:/.... >> | |
| 08 Sep 2003 | make a general produ.... | You should try to make it good for at least one sp.... >> |
| 02 Sep 2003 | Preserving HTML form.... | 'CityDesk 2.0 converts the sample you gave into th.... >> |
| Customer Reviews at .... | I've found to Amazon reviews to be impressively go.... >> | |
| Adobe Acrobat 6.0 | Adobe needs to seriously wake up and see that the .... >> | |
| 26 Aug 2003 | Looking for credit c.... | CyberSource, AuthorizeNet and Verisign are the big.... >> |
| Painless Software Pr.... | I've never seen MS Project used properly (i.e., ev.... >> | |
| www/Why did client-s.... | Even though ActiveX-enabled IE is so widely deploy.... >> | |
| 25 Aug 2003 | How are Usenet newsg.... | Is Usenet relevant these days? Seems like it bit t.... >> |
| XML - the only pract.... | Re XML and RSS, that's the dumbest thing I've hear.... >> | |
| 21 Aug 2003 | Google calculator | Back to the command line! This stuff all makes .... >> |
| 20 Aug 2003 | google in manhattan | Well, the NY jobs will almost certainly all be pur.... >> |
| 14 Aug 2003 | commandline dotnet t.... | Set up a free brinkster account and go! >> |
| Winning the Cookie a.... | Does anyone know what Jeff is talking about? >> | |
| 13 Aug 2003 | Cookies aren't evil but they aren't great citizens.... >> | |
| 12 Aug 2003 | GNU Cash (What Went .... | Virtaully every project in Sourceforge shares the .... >> |
| 'Doomed from the start as a we too, we can do OS q.... >> | ||
| 11 Aug 2003 | Either way, it's a massive over-reach. The scope n.... >> | |
| 07 Aug 2003 | Do senior people hav.... | 'developers can accomplish things without managers.... >> |
| Not a troll and don't consider myself insane. I.... >> | ||
| It makes no sense to promote and compensate more h.... >> | ||
| 05 Aug 2003 | S-Q-L or SeQueL? | b) only a) when referring to SQL Server. >> |
| Netscape had it's pr.... | Oh, please, that's preposterous. Surely you're not.... >> | |
| 04 Aug 2003 | Once Netscape opted to produce a suite instead of .... >> | |
| Equity distribution .... | A 33% equity offer demonstrates that these two are.... >> | |
| When you can't find .... | You're having trouble finding qualified applicants.... >> | |
| 31 Jul 2003 | Slowly double-click .... | It's not great but much better than a right-click .... >> |
| What should the mini.... | The price should have no relation whtsoever to lin.... >> | |
| 30 Jul 2003 | "Would it have preve.... | Code isn't the solution to every problem. >> |
| James Levin kinda lo.... | Who is James Levin? >> | |
| How to get taken ser.... | You're not going anywhere if that's your attitude .... >> | |
| 29 Jul 2003 | why n why | Customers can frequently put up with quality issue.... >> |
| 28 Jul 2003 | Web-based software d.... | Free trial. >> |
| 26 Jul 2003 | Why do programmers d.... | Games are a totally different story. The visuals a.... >> |
| 25 Jul 2003 | You Just Can't Kill .... | VB will continue to flourish because, let's be hon.... >> |
| Winamp 3- another re.... | After using iTunes, you recognize that all these r.... >> | |
| The future of buying.... | The Cringley thing is lame. >> | |
| Internet became dirt.... | Anything that reduces features is a "good thing". .... >> | |
| 24 Jul 2003 | what is the future o.... | Gradual move to C#. >> |
| 23 Jul 2003 | Calendar on weblogs | The calendar in weblogs is completely lame. >> |
| Paper vs online: opi.... | PDF. >> | |
| 21 Jul 2003 | ESPN redesign s-l-o-w >> | |
| 18 Jul 2003 | Is this salary decen.... | 70k is fine. You can easily live inexpensively but.... >> |
| Netscape Dead? | Why don't companies like Opera build on top of Moz.... >> | |
| CFMX flouts Joel's ".... | Does anyone actually *use* ColdFusion? >> | |
| 17 Jul 2003 | google - slates crit.... | And why would anyone search for "flowers" or "appl.... >> |
| 16 Jul 2003 | Scripting Languages? | If you're on Windows, go with Windows technologies.... >> |
| 10 Jul 2003 | Why Eclipse is free | Eclipse isn't sellable. >> |
| 09 Jul 2003 | Like Oil On a... | What does "Like Oil On a..." mean? >> |
| 07 Jul 2003 | Cloned Programs? | If you're simply assembling widgets in a similar m.... >> |
| Is Someone Looking a.... | A good rule of thumb is to assume all of your emai.... >> | |
| Regarding cracks - C.... | And even if you don't register, they can easily tr.... >> | |
| music once more | The onus on being a good neighbor is definitely on.... >> | |
| Form post a file to .... | If you want to browse for the file, do something l.... >> | |
| What we should teach.... | Since the penalty for incorrectly stating 100% con.... >> | |
| 24 Jun 2003 | RE Cold calling + jo.... | You sent something in 3 weeks after the listing wa.... >> |
| 22 Jun 2003 | Thoughts on VCs and .... | A game?? >> |
| wondering if you kno.... | 'disable javascript + active x + java' Or just .... >> | |
| 21 Jun 2003 | obnoxious addition t.... | That's weird. >> |
| 05 Jun 2003 | A comment on Joel's .... | 'I couldn't disagree with you more. When I talk t.... >> |
| I'd agree on VCs, Wall Street and religion but not.... >> | ||
| Who Else Is Getting .... | Even though I disagree, I give respectable compani.... >> | |
| 04 Jun 2003 | HTML, page layout an.... | Ron, it's no longer like that because there are ve.... >> |
| Who Else Is Getting .... | Oh, please. Baseline is *very* explicit that you a.... >> | |
| So is it safe to say this is *not* spam? I'm so.... >> | ||
| ASP/Access or PHP/My.... | You should definitely go with ASP/Access since it .... >> | |
| 03 Jun 2003 | ...the vast majority.... | I'd replace one of those with LAMP (Linux, Apache,.... >> |
| My #1 recommendation.... | Cloudmark is clearly the best approach to spam blo.... >> | |
| How important is a p.... | Names (like "Bloomba") usually can only hurt a pro.... >> | |
| Email client recomme.... | Outlook + Cloudmark for spam blocking. >> | |
| A new web broswer | Now that they're sort of focusing on the browser, .... >> | |
| Paypal = good or bad.... | Nearly 100% of US users and the vast majority of n.... >> | |
| 02 Jun 2003 | Did MS pull a fast o.... | 'IE6 SP1 is the final standalone installation' .... >> |
| Contact Us..... or n.... | Form is fine. Since it can be disasterous if yo.... >> | |
| A new web broswer | I don't notice a difference in image quality and t.... >> | |
| FireBird is just about ready for prime time. A few.... >> | ||
| Paypal = good or bad.... | Two points of clarification: 1) There are not a.... >> | |
| 31 May 2003 | Usability making pro.... | I don't think it's ever useful to reinforce a poin.... >> |
| 22 May 2003 | iTunes-style sharing.... | That is the original request. Shoutcast is just in.... >> |
| 21 May 2003 | iTunes-style sharing plug-in for Winamp >> | |
| 21 May 2003 | Shoutcast is cool but not quite the same. With iTu.... >> | |
| Feasible business? | Sounds like a straight ASP-type business. Yes, the.... >> | |
| 19 May 2003 | User Selectected Int.... | Build one good interface before even considering t.... >> |
| 15 May 2003 | usability of SSL web.... | I'd pick one or the other and go with it for every.... >> |
| Opera | Mouse gestures aren't that neat. I tried to use th.... >> | |
| 05 May 2003 | Is Software a dead i.... | I'm super-bullish on software but less so on the d.... >> |
| 01 May 2003 | Philo's been sacked .... | 10 bucks says CAMEL launches within a few months o.... >> |
| 29 Apr 2003 | Apple iTunes Store >> | |
| 29 Apr 2003 | good web forum for s.... | http://www.allbusiness.com >> |
| What internet did MS.... | Microsoft "gets" the internet as much as any other.... >> | |
| Apple iTunes Store | Ripping MP3 or AAC will generally lead to unaccept.... >> | |
| 25 Apr 2003 | Linux != future | Linux != future because Linux = now! >> |
| 24 Apr 2003 | Good Commercials | ads.com made a go at it for awhile. I suspect the .... >> |
| Putting your whole H.... | Yeah, stripping white space and new lines is the d.... >> | |
| 23 Apr 2003 | What is to fuel the .... | I'm very bullish on hardware and devices. Small an.... >> |
| Advice for bugtracki.... | http://www.fogcreek.com/FogBUGZ/ >> | |
| Experience | 2 years is better than 10 years. You'll generally .... >> | |
| 22 Apr 2003 | HTTP Replacement | Would the cookie-dislikers be satisfied if there w.... >> |
| SMTP Replacement... | 'A typical user sends, what, 100 emails a month? 2.... >> | |
| 21 Apr 2003 | Thoughts on Amazon A.... | I haven't seen (m)any complaints. >> |
| URL that matches pro.... | I'm not aware of a URL shortage. I'd prefer to see.... >> | |
| 19 Apr 2003 | OpenOffice | Noone uses RTF (certainly not the "top 25% of mana.... >> |
| Is Registering a Dom.... | Of course it's not a liability. >> | |
| URL that matches pro.... | I'd certainly prefer having a domain that is share.... >> | |
| Does contributing co.... | 'will companies actually try to find people who cr.... >> | |
| 18 Apr 2003 | Also, why even bring up the fact that you worked o.... >> | |
| The problem with having worked on open source is t.... >> | ||
| 16 Apr 2003 | Why auto tab-ahead o.... | This is exactly the problem with web design. Peopl.... >> |
| 15 Apr 2003 | Why auto tab-ahead on forms? >> | |
| 15 Apr 2003 | Does "Versioning" In.... | Make sure you have one good, sellable product befo.... >> |
| 14 Apr 2003 | how to sell a web ap.... | https://shop.fogcreek.com/?sCategory=FogBUGZ >> |
| "80/20" Rule | OT: anyone know how to change to Yahoo or other en.... >> | |
| 11 Apr 2003 | Microsoft Profits | I meant variable costs. >> |
| 'Profit margin always takes into account all of th.... >> | ||
| Nope. Closer to 90%. >> | ||
| 08 Apr 2003 | Embedded database en.... | Probably want to use Jet or MSDE. http://msdn.m.... >> |
| This is SPAM. | I'd participate in that promotion if they kicked p.... >> | |
| Why read the forum w.... | Top 5 dumbest questions I've read on these boards..... >> | |
| 07 Apr 2003 | Download.com and the.... | The ratings are useless. The best guage is "pop" a.... >> |
| FogBUGZ' Google Page.... | And Google PageRank isn't necessarily a gauge of p.... >> | |
| 05 Apr 2003 | Forum Software Beta .... | Can you provide a glimpse of it? >> |
| 02 Apr 2003 | What, exactly, is MS.... | Depress the price of Overture and then buy it out..... >> |
| Net 30 argument - ch.... | Philo, even if it's simple technically (which I hi.... >> | |
| Maybe that's just how long it takes. Assuming that.... >> | ||
| 01 Apr 2003 | How to call a PHP sc.... | fsockopen() is just a way to POST/GET to a server .... >> |
| 31 Mar 2003 | fsockopen() can do http. https would require cURL. >> | |
| Would fsockopen() work? http://www.php.net/manu.... >> | ||
| 28 Mar 2003 | Best editor: Visual .... | How about a lite IDE for PHP + MySQL dev? >> |
| Shareware Authors | Yes, you can. Develop a good app. Give away a .... >> | |
| 27 Mar 2003 | html indentation | Do you really think white space slows down the bro.... >> |
| Personal Firewalls? | MacOS X, built-in. >> | |
| 22 Mar 2003 | what comes first, pr.... | Product first. The company stuff is just useless o.... >> |
| 19 Mar 2003 | What allows GNU/Linu.... | The better question is, after a decade or two, how.... >> |
| 14 Mar 2003 | Sun focusing on soft.... | Wouldn't plan on them getting out of hardware anyt.... >> |
| MyYahoo alternatives | Do you have any examples of bad links? I'm not .... >> | |
| 13 Mar 2003 | Are you using the Same My Yahoo that I am? My Yaho.... >> | |
| 12 Mar 2003 | Once you go laptop-c.... | Considering tha desktops are superior in nearly ev.... >> |
| Webhosts | brinkster.com >> | |
| Website Implementati.... | It doesn't render in either of my browsers (Safari.... >> | |
| What transport do yo.... | Is there anything open source or more basic like J.... >> | |
| 11 Mar 2003 | Normally HTTP or HTTPS. >> | |
| 10 Mar 2003 | Building communities.... | 1. None. I'm signed up for a number of weekly emai.... >> |
| POST XML document vi.... | Stay away from OpenSSL and cURL as they have nothi.... >> | |
| Dave Frets over Goog.... | The Blogger stuff is just the tip of the ice-berg .... >> | |
| 07 Mar 2003 | Click out tracking script >> | |
| 07 Mar 2003 | Uhmmm, yes it has. Stretching back a year or more .... >> | |
| 06 Mar 2003 | Google's been garnering ire for awhile now an it j.... >> | |
| Groove Networks lays.... | z, $155m is *plenty* of cash!! Even if they averag.... >> | |
| 05 Mar 2003 | How does a pure software company need so much cash.... >> | |
| 04 Mar 2003 | Motley Fool has the .... | The Motley Fool boards are *horrible*! Since they .... >> |
| Selling non existent.... | The problem is that prospective buyers not only le.... >> | |
| Mobile devices appli.... | You're going to read a book on your Palm?? Ther.... >> | |
| 03 Mar 2003 | Hmmm... It's a nice .... | If he were selling the software as a product, the .... >> |
| 27 Feb 2003 | SourceForge like ser.... | You're basically describing VA Software's commerci.... >> |
| 24 Feb 2003 | "SQL Server Develope.... | This stuff never goes anywhere. >> |
| 19 Feb 2003 | The bare minimum for.... | That's sour grapes if I've ever seen some. The eMa.... >> |
| Who dropped the ball.... | These conspiracy theories are so ridiculous. Why a.... >> | |
| First Web Applicatio.... | If Microsoft, VBScript/C++ and ASP/ASP.NET and MSS.... >> | |
| 17 Feb 2003 | Do you still design .... | No. Designing *for* Netscaep 4.x is inefficient wh.... >> |
| 12 Feb 2003 | handling credit card.... | Note: PayPal employee It's not that rare for ev.... >> |
| MSN Messenger | 'If you consider what a normal, non-technical pers.... >> | |
| IM usage is primarily driven by what whoever you w.... >> | ||
| 11 Feb 2003 | Add/Remove Programs .... | Helps in clearing out little or unused programs. >> |
| Digital Cameras - 2:.... | 'the 1 hour instant lab as conditioned people to e.... >> | |
| By popular, do you mean for every 99 4x6's there's.... >> | ||
| 10 Feb 2003 | Peer 1, a right deci.... | Not really. You're comparing something that's a on.... >> |
| I was merely reacting to how it was presented: .... >> | ||
| It could make sense for Peer 1 to comp service to .... >> | ||
| Digital Cameras - 2:.... | Does anyone really ever want anything other than 4.... >> | |
| 09 Feb 2003 | The whole digital photography industry is way behi.... >> | |
| 08 Feb 2003 | Nice software compan.... | Troy, go back and re-read the original inquiry. Th.... >> |
| 07 Feb 2003 | While I'm not a big fan of image buttons, I think .... >> | |
| KHTML-Win32 | Yep, should have been more explicit. With the brow.... >> | |
| 06 Feb 2003 | KHTML-Win32 >> | |
| 06 Feb 2003 | Hosting web-site on .... | Don't even think about hosting your site at home t.... >> |
| Discussion board sof.... | Don't write your own! The PHP/MySQL ones are ve.... >> | |
| New Server at Peer 1 | BTW, Dave wondered how Joel could get so much more.... >> | |
| 05 Feb 2003 | "Really" Starting a .... | FogBugz pre-dated CityDesk by 1-2 years. There .... >> |
| Starting A Small Bus.... | Ditto. If you can't afford/justify a few thou per .... >> | |
| 31 Jan 2003 | How to promote good .... | IM >> |
| 30 Jan 2003 | Does usability matte.... | 'If you are selling software out-of-a-box, the eas.... >> |
| 23 Jan 2003 | will Linux be mainst.... | Linux may make in-roads in the 'desktop' market bu.... >> |
| 21 Jan 2003 | Good C book for newb.... | I wouldn't call K&R a bible considering it's brevi.... >> |
| Safari | Safari == 2003. Safari's the first product in a lo.... >> | |
| 17 Jan 2003 | Safari >> | |
| 17 Jan 2003 | Java vs. Perl/PHP | It's more that companies feel safer buying into en.... >> |
| 13 Jan 2003 | What do you guys mak.... | I find it bizarre that he has been nowhere to be f.... >> |
| Lord Palmerston: Cro.... | Slightly off-topic but has anyone seen any rumblin.... >> | |
| 12 Jan 2003 | Joel's XUL fears cor.... | I think most developers outside of Mozilla are sta.... >> |
| 07 Jan 2003 | Michael Robertson - .... | I became bearish on Lindows when they recently sto.... >> |
| Does the college mat.... | MBA is definitely key for an entrepreneur. My expe.... >> | |
| 02 Jan 2003 | I'm so sick of these ridiculous arguments that goi.... >> | |
| Web design | We have zero femal programmers and over half our d.... >> | |
| Is Linux as really s.... | I'm wondering of Apple's Darwin will make any in-r.... >> | |
| Google, most Ph.Ds p.... | Couldn't DISagree more with Eddy's post. Does anyo.... >> | |
| Mysql - Good or bad? | MySQL should work for 90+% of projects. Many peopl.... >> | |
| Java. Good for clien.... | I haven't seen too many Java client apps that ever.... >> | |
| Promoting software | download.com >> | |
| 30 Dec 2002 | Did you stake your c.... | The key is follow-through. There are tons of oppor.... >> |
| Living and Working i.... | Dissatisfied, it's definitely possible to find goo.... >> | |
| 27 Dec 2002 | Instant Messenger Se.... | AIM continues to appear to have a stranglehold but.... >> |
| Why all the flame wa.... | What annoys me is that many posters are poor at co.... >> | |
| Your opinion on the .... | Hiring companies are definitely much more selectiv.... >> | |
| 20 Dec 2002 | Peeved too... | That's ridiculous. I'd consider a bug even. >> |
| CDNOW Usability | In fact, Amazon's interface does work pretty well .... >> | |
| Jakob Nielsen | It's you. Nielsen-haters are quite boring, imo. >> | |
| 19 Dec 2002 | Funny/Interesting th.... | An hour per day???? >> |
| Mr. Moneybags | 'Great tech skills with zero 'soft' skills will ra.... >> | |
| 16 Dec 2002 | Selection and the cu.... | Some big companies aren't able to "lay off" based .... >> |
| PHP vs ASP | Don't use PHP and Apache on Windows. That defeats .... >> | |
| 14 Dec 2002 | Mr. Moneybags | With all due respect, this is the dumbest thing I'.... >> |
| 12 Dec 2002 | Joel on the Economy .... | Tossing out un-degreed candidates makes complete s.... >> |
| 11 Dec 2002 | Looking smart | I can't stand users who report "it isn't working"..... >> |
| 09 Dec 2002 | Bella. What's .... | Good question. >> |
| Rewriting WinAmp fro.... | I can't stand products that waste development time.... >> | |
| 05 Dec 2002 | Looking for an evite.... | Yeah, I find Evite incredible lousy. It's criminal.... >> |
| 02 Dec 2002 | When are web-based a.... | Most apps are better off as web apps, IMO. Practic.... >> |
| Why some programmers.... | Scope management cannot be underestimated. I've ne.... >> | |
| 19 Nov 2002 | PalmOS Programming | I'd suggest VB if you want to get going quickly. .... >> |
| 18 Nov 2002 | Spam | About 40/day in my Hotmail account. About 2/day in.... >> |
| Anti-spam vigilantes | Totally disagree. I can tolerate noise. I absolute.... >> | |
| Competing Offers -- .... | If you like your current job, keep it. Contractors.... >> | |
| 15 Nov 2002 | SPAM Techniques that.... | SpamNet should eventually work effectively. They j.... >> |
| 12 Nov 2002 | Leaky Abstractions a.... | That doesn't make the example "flawed". >> |
| 11 Nov 2002 | Load Testing really .... | In fact, you didn't include a lot of things, like .... >> |
| 08 Nov 2002 | J2EE vs. PHP for web.... | http://public.yahoo.com/~radwin/talks/yahoo-phpcon.... >> |
| 06 Nov 2002 | FogBugz looks great;.... | We use TestTrack which is nice. Lengthy list at: .... >> |
| 05 Nov 2002 | Voting Machine Usabi.... | I think all the new electronic polling machines ar.... >> |
| The most important w.... | Actually google *is* #1 if you add up the differen.... >> | |
| Shareware/try and bu.... | A "Lite" and a "Pro" version. And make it *easy* t.... >> | |
| 01 Nov 2002 | Filemaker And cowork.... | Excel might be adequate. No programming required. >> |
| Most powerful notebo.... | I've never tried a notebook that's key-board would.... >> | |
| 30 Oct 2002 | Did Joel actually sa.... | 'Diesel stores are so confusing that it begs a que.... >> |
| 28 Oct 2002 | With boards like this and 37svn, it's easy to masq.... >> | |
| What happened to E-q.... | I suppose it's possible this is the e-quill techno.... >> | |
| 27 Oct 2002 | Did Joel actually sa.... | I didn't think it was the real Joel either. Didn't.... >> |
| 25 Oct 2002 | Worried Lingo Progra.... | How about Flash? >> |
| What happened to E-q.... | With e-quill you could easily envision some simple.... >> | |
| What kind of PDAs yo.... | A keyboard is infinitely better than hadnwriting r.... >> | |
| 24 Oct 2002 | I think it's refreshing that there are at least a .... >> | |
| 23 Oct 2002 | What happened to E-quill? >> | |
| 23 Oct 2002 | Operating Systems Us.... | The thing that is interesting is the rise of IE 6 .... >> |
| PHP Design Flaws | This situation just goes to show that getting the .... >> | |
| What kind of PDAs yo.... | Tapiwa, we hear the same thing each time a new hyb.... >> | |
| Palms really are over-kill for what they are used .... >> | ||
| Radio from UserLand | Is it conceivable that a Radio-type front-end coul.... >> | |
| UI of this website | Joel, please do not take *any* of the 'advice' con.... >> | |
| 15 Oct 2002 | Joel & C++ | Geez, programmers are lame. >> |
| 14 Oct 2002 | The advertising empe.... | If you don't think advertising works, then you've .... >> |
| 13 Oct 2002 | message board font | There's some kind of Preference thing that's been .... >> |
| 10 Oct 2002 | An Observation | A few people on this board have an irritating desi.... >> |
| Joels worst piece ye.... | itdoesntmatter, you did not make one single valid .... >> | |
| 08 Oct 2002 | Oracle Questions | How about a php and MySql board? >> |
| 06 Oct 2002 | GPA a factor? | The original poster asked about "first job", folks.... >> |
| 04 Oct 2002 | Of course GPA is a factor at practically every com.... >> | |
| 01 Oct 2002 | Groove Platform | Please elaborate. >> |
| Shrinkwrap db app de.... | Does anyone know any super-lite-weight, microDB wr.... >> | |
| Tools to support bra.... | It's easy to figure out from reading Fred's few po.... >> | |
| 30 Sep 2002 | Groove Platform | If the Notes client were given away and Lotus char.... >> |
| Shrinkwrap db app de.... | The whole MSDE conversation didn't make sense to m.... >> | |
| Forum Design - Good .... | Amen, Patrik. What people are calling "flaws" here.... >> | |
| 27 Sep 2002 | Tools to support bra.... | The best tool you could utilize by far is a positi.... >> |
| 26 Sep 2002 | Why you should (not?.... | The postcardware thing is idiotic. For me to send .... >> |
| 25 Sep 2002 | General Magic's Deat.... | I don't recall GM having anything people wanted to.... >> |
| 24 Sep 2002 | Stopping pop up ads | Mozilla (but not Netscape) blocks pop-ups. Why in .... >> |
| Why you should (not?.... | Can anyone tell me what Adobe's strategy is with i.... >> | |
| learning to program | Get a free brinkster.com account and start writing.... >> | |
| 20 Sep 2002 | Does hell mean Micro.... | Cache doesn't show anything OMM except a Google er.... >> |
| AOL is 3rd when seraching "got to hell". >> | ||
| 18 Sep 2002 | Joel's wrong on this.... | Why do so many people get such a kick out of writi.... >> |
| 13 Sep 2002 | Advertising vs. word.... | Gimme a break. Tell P&G, Coke, McDonalds, Budw.... >> |
| Web site authenticat.... | It's very important to understand what the consequ.... >> | |
| On FogBUGZ And Custo.... | 5 custom fields max and the user should be able to.... >> | |
| New Articles | Estimating schedule is rather easy of you ask the .... >> | |
| 12 Sep 2002 | 25 times as many Mac.... | Oh, I see, he does briefly note that category alte.... >> |
| Joel's writing was pretty easy to understand but w.... >> | ||
| 10 Sep 2002 | How do "platforms" m.... | Platforms don't make money, they mint it! >> |
| 31 Aug 2002 | Can someone please e.... | I agree. I don't think I've ever seen anyone argue.... >> |
| 30 Aug 2002 | *CityDesk* is a plat.... | I would expect FogCreek to at some point make the .... >> |
| CityDesk is not a platform. >> | ||
| 29 Aug 2002 | Joel on Mozilla | I find defenses of Microsoft and attacks on Mozill.... >> |
| What if Sun charge m.... | Charging $239 would be worse than charging nothing.... >> | |
| 27 Aug 2002 | When A Bad Design Is.... | I'd say companies use Outlook because it connects .... >> |
| Rebranding using Web.... | What do you mean 'rebranding'? Like this: http://w.... >> | |
| MP3 Player | iPod is by far the best. I haven't tried the Windo.... >> | |
| 23 Aug 2002 | how can i protect my.... | Exactly. It's not that big a deal. >> |
| I'd register the domain and not worry too much els.... >> | ||
| Smalltalk on The Net.... | If you're looking to develop web sites, go with PH.... >> | |
| If you need to learn something new, C++ is a much .... >> | ||
| 21 Aug 2002 | Software Review Site.... | Amazon's decent, too. >> |
| Precisely. Old usenet posts are interesting but th.... >> | ||
| 20 Aug 2002 | I wouldn't go near usenet. It's been useless for q.... >> | |
| Useful JOS Forum Sta.... | Registering is irritating and as this forum (and 3.... >> | |
| 19 Aug 2002 | The print is too small on your reports. It's not r.... >> | |
| " (X) On Software" A.... | Very difficult to read on that goofy grey backgrou.... >> | |
| WinAmp, another soft.... | Would anyone actually pay for skinnablity? Didn't .... >> | |
| 14 Aug 2002 | MS Content Managemen.... | A *lot* cheaper than Vignette, Documentum, Interwo.... >> |
| Is anyone using MSXM.... | hakmanpeachey.com >> | |
| 05 Aug 2002 | Do you use the best .... | If the company did buy the program and use it o.... >> |
| 01 Aug 2002 | SpamAssasin - The E-.... | Junk mail hasn't rendered my mail-box useless. But.... >> |
| how profitable can s.... | Wrong question. The question is "how profitable ca.... >> | |
| Know of any decent b.... | Why does it need to be free? >> | |
| 31 Jul 2002 | Favorite Source Cont.... | >>Why do people (and especially Dilbert type manag.... >> |
| Where to get ideas? | You don't have to get overly creative. Find a need.... >> | |
| 25 Jul 2002 | Piracy protection of.... | I think your best bet is to create a valuable prod.... >> |
| 22 Jul 2002 | Listen.com no Panace.... | Exactly. All you have to do is notify the user. >> |
| "main reason" >> | ||
| Would your "reason reason" be unachievable if you .... >> | ||
| Listen.com vs emusic.... | I would definitely believe that at least 51% of Na.... >> | |
| Pager duty for devel.... | Be thankful that you have paying customers who dep.... >> | |
| Is .NET the way to g.... | 'the writing is on the wall for Microsoft' Ha h.... >> | |
| 18 Jul 2002 | Dabble in Python, Perl, Lisp, AWK if you don't wis.... >> | |
| Poll w moral: Who we.... | Amazing how not one person followed what are fairl.... >> | |
| Yes. >> | ||
| Mac fanatics | I must admit that I actually like the fact that th.... >> | |
| 16 Jul 2002 | Question for Joel re.... | Or you can just use PayPal. >> |
| 02 Jul 2002 | Flash as a serious e.... | In general, flash should be avoided in practically.... >> |
| 21 Jun 2002 | Usability of the Joe.... | Bella, it is not remotely a "flaw". Not resorting .... >> |
| 20 Jun 2002 | Discussion boards should absolutely not allow edit.... >> | |
| 19 Jun 2002 | Joel goes Dutch! = C.... | Nope. >> |
| Proposal for defect-.... | Users are definitely to blame. Users in no way dem.... >> | |
| 14 Jun 2002 | Wanted: Volunteers t.... | Jutta, true. I actually was confused and thought h.... >> |
| 12 Jun 2002 | If only it were that neat. In fact, it's illegal t.... >> | |
| 11 Jun 2002 | Is it even legal to "hire" people and not compensa.... >> | |
| MOZILLA 1.0 | Who knows if Moz 1.2 will make it out the door, mu.... >> | |
| 24 May 2002 | Why managers cant al.... | Well...a competitive advantage is an advantage ove.... >> |
| 23 May 2002 | too critical of MS? | I love hearing people rant about the bugginess of .... >> |
| 22 May 2002 | Why managers cant al.... | Our experience is that having engineering, product.... >> |
| 21 May 2002 | too critical of MS? | Paul, that's the dumbest thing I've read in awhile.... >> |
| Albert and Hugh, nicely said. There are so many op.... >> | ||
| 20 May 2002 | People have always disliked success and leadership.... >> | |
| The funniest thing a.... | Of course keywords are important to AOL...it's the.... >> | |
| reply to "updated to.... | Allowing people to edit their posts is dumb. #1, i.... >> | |
| 19 May 2002 | Irrational client be.... | So, what are the URLs?? >> |
| Another MS Office ki.... | 'They quit upgrading office and declared that MS W.... >> | |
| PHP + MySql | Postgresql is going to be a non-starter for most p.... >> | |
| 18 May 2002 | What would you choos.... | Bog companies and small companies are both fin to .... >> |
| 17 May 2002 | how can "new.net" in.... | My bad. I'm confused. Sorry. >> |
| Yawn. More Microsoft bashing. >> | ||
| Software License Man.... | Low-tech almost always wins out over hi-tech. >> | |
| 16 May 2002 | updated topics first | That time and new subjects have more weight in det.... >> |
| 15 May 2002 | Not if you want threads to die. >> | |
| It doesn't and I think Joel wanted it that way. I .... >> | ||
| 14 May 2002 | Another MS Office ki.... | But on a different note, I do sense a bit of the b.... >> |
| RealNames | And one more thing: IE isn't the only place RealNa.... >> | |
| 13 May 2002 | RealNames >> | |
| 13 May 2002 | Another MS Office ki.... | 'I think i just realized the depths of microsoft's.... >> |
| consulting company (.... | I forgot to mention that this arrangement also avo.... >> | |
| Get over it! Recruiting firms take 1/3 of an annua.... >> | ||
| 12 May 2002 | PHP + MySql | How effectively does InnoDB address the transactio.... >> |
| 11 May 2002 | I've heard good things about Python but I don't be.... >> | |
| 10 May 2002 | PHP + MySql >> | |
| 09 May 2002 | best looking softwar.... | Kim Polese Katrina Garnett >> |
| Reinventing a Mainfr.... | PHP + MySql >> | |
| 06 May 2002 | The world is complic.... | Wow, Michel, you really like to stir things up her.... >> |
| 02 May 2002 | Businesses WANT to p.... | There a certain amount of marketing-speaking Sun i.... >> |
| Good software engine.... | An easy way to weed out a lot of the crappier post.... >> | |
| IE 6 Privacy default.... | I think it's actually quite a bit worse of an issu.... >> | |
| 01 May 2002 | Well, it's going to take much longer than 16.5 min.... >> | |
| 29 Apr 2002 | enough already Joel. | Features <> choices. >> |
| Please re-read my ar.... | Ziv, nope. Queries are typically simpler than resu.... >> | |
| 27 Apr 2002 | Joel writes : "SOAP .... | Could someone please explain the problem with: .... >> |
| 26 Apr 2002 | IE 6 Privacy default to "Medium" >> | |
| 26 Apr 2002 | Please re-read my ar.... | POST/GET requests over http(s) with a set of key=v.... >> |
| 25 Apr 2002 | What is needed is a light-weight mechanism to repl.... >> | |
| Joel writes : "SOAP .... | I don't know how we totally skipped an RPC interfa.... >> | |
| 17 Apr 2002 | Is this still true | More true than ever, I would say. >> |
| 16 Apr 2002 | Anti Visual Basic | Rune, more is definitely better in this case. Sorr.... >> |
| 15 Apr 2002 | These comparison are awlays so pathetic. If all th.... >> | |
| Weblogs | CityDesk + free ISP (e.g., Hypermart.net). >> | |
| Bug Tracking | I might have been interested in having a look at J.... >> | |
| 12 Apr 2002 | Working from home | Agree with Kevin. Instant Messaging is the thing t.... >> |
| 11 Apr 2002 | The 80/20 Rule for F.... | Uhmm...don't use Usenet if you want to actually fi.... >> |
| 10 Apr 2002 | Microsoft SQL Server.... | If you're just getting started, try MySQL or MS SQ.... >> |
| 09 Apr 2002 | Bloatware - one more.... | Oh, c'mon! Joel's obvously not referring to foot-p.... >> |
| I think file format compatibility is a lot more im.... >> | ||
| 08 Apr 2002 | Small app idea requi.... | A simple, PayPal-enabled shopping cart. Consists o.... >> |
| Bloatware - one more.... | Uhmmm...how about ASCII? Our HR department would t.... >> | |
| 04 Apr 2002 | New CTO Looking For .... | Sounds like a VP of Engineering. I'd hire and reta.... >> |
| Application Architec.... | Dump each section into a queue and have a queue se.... >> | |
| 01 Apr 2002 | Are all programmers .... | It's quite possible that more than 50% of programm.... >> |
| Link to Joel removed.... | Re: 'AOL and Dave Winer' I knew it had to be an.... >> | |
| 30 Mar 2002 | Less reinventing whe.... | Innovation is over-rated. Execution is what matter.... >> |
| What program would y.... | PayPal-enabled store-front builder. >> | |
| 28 Mar 2002 | Link to Joel removed.... | Yawn. >> |
| 26 Mar 2002 | Microsoft returning .... | Ideas are a dime a dozen. What's is sorely lacking.... >> |
| 21 Mar 2002 | anyone else find thi.... | akira, your comments are completely idiotic. mozil.... >> |
| 20 Mar 2002 | Open Source version .... | It's pretty easy to compete against someone who is.... >> |
| anyone else find thi.... | Big diff between starting a company and bringing t.... >> | |
| Resize and close win.... | DB, that's baloney! I can easily move over the ent.... >> | |
| 11 Mar 2002 | Tools we love, tools.... | I still haven't found a Windows text editor that I.... >> |
| 07 Mar 2002 | SORT these posts by .... | Agree with Philip. People make all these suggestio.... >> |
| 28 Feb 2002 | Developers over 35? | A lot of BS flowing here. Younger programmers are .... >> |
| 27 Feb 2002 | Broken Javascript on.... | It happens all the time to big AND small companies.... >> |
| 14 Feb 2002 | Raise Your Hand If Y.... | [hands on the ground] Customers don't have a cl.... >> |
| 07 Feb 2002 | Is the Web a Wank? | So little of everyday life is "mission critical" t.... >> |
| 05 Feb 2002 | Where to begin... | Definitely don't start with Smalltalk. You probabl.... >> |
| 04 Feb 2002 | Selling Shareware | Exactly. But FogCreek would never *call* it sharew.... >> |
| The term "shareware" is part of the problem. Share.... >> | ||
| 31 Jan 2002 | Where to begin... | You should start with VisualBasic. With VisualBasi.... >> |
| 29 Jan 2002 | Making money with Op.... | Have a look at ecommerce apps like http://intercha.... >> |
| PDA'sLUseful or Crap.... | Because, Chris, attempts to combine two gixmos int.... >> | |
| 28 Jan 2002 | Like Alyosha, I titally disagree with Leonardo: mo.... >> | |
| 26 Jan 2002 | rub a dub - Use temp.... | We wasted 8 months building a v2 from scratch and .... >> |
| Is a college degree .... | It's important if you want a job. I don't know too.... >> | |
| 25 Jan 2002 | refactoring- debunki.... | It's interesting ho strong the sentiment is to try.... >> |
| Wireless | Always-on email (a la BlackBerry). I barely turn m.... >> | |
| 24 Jan 2002 | In the US, data on mobile phones is practically de.... >> | |
| 16 Jan 2002 | SDI vs. MDI | You're not really piggy-backing Microsoft's usabil.... >> |
| Whatever you do, don't provide both. Pick the one .... >> | ||