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Victory Lap for Ask Patents 23 Jul 2013 | 12:55 am
There are a lot of people complaining about lousy software patents these days. I say, stop complaining, and start killing them. It took me about fifteen minutes to stop a crappy Microsoft patent from ...
Free as in Fortune Cookies 1 May 2013 | 01:42 am
Trello has been out for less than two years and it’s been growing like wildfire. We recently hit 1.5 million members, of whom about 1/3 perform some action every month, and our MongoDB database now co...
The Patent Protection Racket 2 Apr 2013 | 11:31 pm
The fastest growing industry in the US right now, even during this time of slow economic growth, is probably the patent troll protection racket industry. Lawsuits surrounding software patents have mor...
Town Car Version Control 12 Mar 2013 | 05:34 am
The team at Fog Creek is releasing a major new version of Kiln today. Kiln is a distributed version control system. One of the biggest new features is Kiln Harmony, which lets you operate on Kiln rep...
The App Developers Alliance 17 Oct 2012 | 08:31 pm
A couple of months ago, Jon Potter came over for lunch and asked me to be the chairman of the board at the Application Developers Alliance. I said, “Sure! On one condition: I get to define what you m...
Software Inventory 9 Jul 2012 | 11:35 pm
Imagine, for a moment, that you came upon a bread factory for the first time. At first it just looks like a jumble of incomprehensible machinery with a few people buzzing around. As your eyes adjust y...
Trello at UserVoice 18 Apr 2012 | 07:57 am
The folks over at UserVoice are using Trello quite extensively throughout their development process. Founder Richard White describes it all in detail. Need to hire a really great programmer? Want a ...
The Founder’s Dilemmas 28 Mar 2012 | 07:42 am
My friend Noam Wasserman at Harvard Business School has spent years researching startups. His work is great, because he actually does real, quantitative research on the kinds of things that everybody ...
The Management Team 14 Feb 2012 | 08:40 am
“The saddest thing about the Steve Jobs hagiography is all the young ‘incubator twerps’ strutting around Mountain View deliberately cultivating their worst personality traits because they imagine that...
New York City gets a Software Engineering High School 14 Jan 2012 | 09:56 am
This fall New York City will open The Academy for Software Engineering, the city’s first public high school that will actually train kids to develop software. The project has been a long time dream of...
