Our current team encompasses 5 people, distributed all over the USA, along with the team in NYC. My first mistake was attempting to program alone. I had weekly calls with my business partner, Joel Spolsky, which were quite productive in terms of...

We’ll have three more for you next week, too. You’re 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...

But now others have joined the blog exodus: Sam Lessin, the founder of streaming-media startup Drop.io, recently announced he was shutting down his blog and starting a subscription newsletter — one that charges readers a monthly fee. This is a section...

Don’t worry, it’s good for your brain, and might even change the way you look at your day-to-day programming. Greg Meredith, mathematician and computer scientist Brian Beckman, astrophysicist and software architect (sounds like one of those...

I liked the newsletter approach. But for the not well established, I would consider a half-free service: some content for free, some paid. I think you are right, Scott — there is an ebb and flow to blogging, and some (like Joel Spolsky and Jason) have...

The idea was to create an alternative to the market leader at the time, Experts-Exchange (EE). Where EE was a fee-based site, the vision for StackOverflow was to offer a simpler, entirely free site where you could get the same type of assistance from...