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Joel on Software

Joel writes about software development, management, business and the Internet.
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Author: Joel Spolsky
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Don't hide or disable menu items

Jul 1, 2008
A long time ago, it became fashionable, even recommended, to disable menu items when they could not be used. Don't do this. Users see the disabled menu item that they want to click on, and are left entirely without a clue of what they are supposed to...

Desks

Jun 6, 2008
A reader wrote in to ask what kind of desks we're going to be using for the new office. The ergonomics experts always want you to have your feet flat on the floor. So you have to adjust your seat height first. Then, your arms are supposed to be...

Upgrade your career

Nov 5, 2009
Do you like your job? Do you enjoy the people you work with? Would you want to have lunch with them? Every day? Alex Papadimoulis thinks that Fog Tyler Griffin Hicks-Wright Creek’s free lunches are “cultish,” but everyone at Fog Creek...

Does Slow Growth Equal Slow Death?

Nov 3, 2009
My new Inc. column is up. “For a guy who wrote a book on how to hire great programmers, it’s mortifying how incompetent I’ve been at enlarging the sales team, which, right now, consists of one terrific account executive and a dog. (I’m just...

Figuring out what your company is all about

Nov 1, 2009
What is your company about? Recently I got inspired by Kathy Sierra, whose blog Creating Passionate Users and Head First series of books revolutionized developer education. She kept saying the same thing again and again: help your users be...

Adam Bosworth on standards

Oct 31, 2009
Adam Bosworth: “All successful standards are as simple as possible, not as hard as possible.” Required reading. Need to hire a really great programmer? Want a job that doesn't drive you crazy? Visit the Joel on Software Job Board: Great software...

Capstone projects and time management

Oct 26, 2009
It is amazing how easy it is to sail through a Computer Science degree from a top university without ever learning the basic tools of software developers, without ever working on a team, and without ever taking a course for which you don’t get an...

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