Joel Spolsky

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Joel Spolsky (born 1965) is a software engineer and writer. He is the author of Joel on Software, a blog on software development targeted mainly at writers of Windows software. He was a Program Manager on the Microsoft Excel team between 1991 and 1994 and later founded Fog Creek Software.

1 Biography
2 References
3 Publications
4 External links

[edit] Biography

Spolsky grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico and lived there until he was 15.^[1] He then moved with his family to Jerusalem, Israel where he attended high school and did his military service as a paratrooper.^[1] He was one of the founders of Kibbutz Hanaton in Upper Galil.^[2] In 1987, he returned to the United States to attend college. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania for a year before transferring to Yale University, where he graduated in 1991 with a BS summa cum laude in Computer Science.^[1]

Spolsky started working at Microsoft in 1991,^[3] as a Program Manager on the Microsoft Excel team, where he designed Excel Basic and drove Microsoft's Visual Basic for Applications strategy.^[4] He moved to New York City in 1995 where he worked for Viacom and Juno.^[1] In 2000, he founded Fog Creek Software and created the Joel on Software weblog.^[3]

He is openly homosexual and has mentioned that he has a boyfriend named Jared.^[5]

[edit] References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Spolsky, Joel (October 30, 2005). About Joel Spolsky. Joel On Software. Retrieved on 2007-02-02.
^ Spolsky, Joel. Joel Spolsky. joel.spolsky.com. Retrieved on 2007-02-04.
^ ^a ^b Livingston, Jessica (January 22, 2007). Interview: Joel Spolsky Co-Founder, Fog Creek Software. Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days. Apress. Retrieved on 2007-02-04.
^ Spolsky, Joel (June 16, 2006). My First BillG Review. Joel On Software. Retrieved on 2007-02-02.
^ Spolsky, Joel (September 11, 2001). 2001/09/11. Joel On Software. Retrieved on 2007-02-04.