Joel Spolsky on Salon.com

Joel Spolsky is the founder of Fog Creek Software, publishers of CityDesk (a desktop web content management system) and FogBugz (a bug tracking system designed to actually be useful instead of just collecting meaningless statistics for managers' PowerPoint presentations).

Joel has published a couple of books - one on user interface design (based on this series of online articles) and another that's a collection of his Joel On Software essays.

What I like about Joel is his writing style. It's relaxed, easy-going, and illustrated with funny and memorable stories and anecdotes that help both the explanation and the retention of the point he's making.

This interview is definitely worth a read, especially if you develop software for a living and have to deal with any kind of 'methodology'.

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