Joel Spolsky, the Glossary
Avram Joel Spolsky (born 1965) is a software engineer and writer.[1]
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54 relations: Aardvark'd: 12 Weeks with Geeks, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Anil Dash, Architecture astronaut, Atlassian, Bachelor of Science, C (programming language), C standard library, C string handling, Computer science, Concatenation, Glitch, Inc., Hanaton, High- and low-level, IMDb, Inc. (magazine), Israel, Jeff Atwood, Jews, Juno Online Services, Kanban (development), Kibbutz, Latin honors, Leaky abstraction, LGBT culture in New York City, List of LGBT people from New York City, List of tech companies in the New York metropolitan area, Lower Galilee, Manhattan, Microsoft, Microsoft Excel, Multiple citizenship, New York City, New Zealanders, Null character, Null-terminated string, NYC Pride March, Painter's algorithm, Pierson College, Root cause analysis, Scope (computer science), Software design, Springer Nature, Stack Exchange, Stack Overflow, Trello, University of Pennsylvania, Upper West Side, Viacom (2005–2019), Visual Basic for Applications, ... Expand index (4 more) »
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Aardvark'd: 12 Weeks with Geeks
Aardvark'd: 12 Weeks with Geeks is a 2005 documentary film about the development of Fog Creek Copilot, a remote assistance software tool.
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Albuquerque, New Mexico
Albuquerque, also known as ABQ, Burque, and the Duke City, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Mexico.
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Anil Dash
Anil Dash (born September 5, 1975) is an American technology executive, entrepreneur, Prince scholar and writer. Joel Spolsky and Anil Dash are American male bloggers.
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Architecture astronaut
In software development, an architecture astronaut is a term for an individual who is focused on abstract ideas underpinning software design.
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Atlassian
Atlassian Corporation is an Australian-American software company that develops products for software developers, and project managers among other groups.
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Bachelor of Science
A Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, B.Sc., SB, or ScB; from the Latin scientiae baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree that is awarded for programs that generally last three to five years.
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C (programming language)
C (pronounced – like the letter c) is a general-purpose programming language.
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C standard library
The C standard library or libc is the standard library for the C programming language, as specified in the ISO C standard.
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C string handling
The C programming language has a set of functions implementing operations on strings (character strings and byte strings) in its standard library.
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Computer science
Computer science is the study of computation, information, and automation.
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Concatenation
In formal language theory and computer programming, string concatenation is the operation of joining character strings end-to-end.
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Glitch, Inc.
Glitch, Inc. (previously known as Fog Creek Software) is a software company specializing in project management tools.
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Hanaton
Hanaton (חנתון) is a kibbutz in northern Israel.
High- and low-level
High-level and low-level, as technical terms, are used to classify, describe and point to specific goals of a systematic operation; and are applied in a wide range of contexts, such as, for instance, in domains as widely varied as computer science and business administration.
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IMDb
IMDb (an acronym for Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews.
Inc. (magazine)
Inc. is an American business magazine founded in 1979 and based in New York City.
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Israel
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant, West Asia.
Jeff Atwood
Jeff Atwood (born 1970) is an American software developer, author, blogger, and entrepreneur. Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood are American computer programmers and American male bloggers.
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Jews
The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.
Juno Online Services
Juno Online Services, also called simply Juno, is an Internet service provider based in the United States.
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Kanban (development)
Kanban (Japanese:, meaning signboard or billboard) is a lean method to manage and improve work across human systems.
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Kibbutz
A kibbutz (קִבּוּץ / קיבוץ,;: kibbutzim קִבּוּצִים / קיבוצים) is an intentional community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture.
Latin honors
Latin honours are a system of Latin phrases used in some colleges and universities to indicate the level of distinction with which an academic degree has been earned.
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Leaky abstraction
In software development, a leaky abstraction is an abstraction that leaks details that it is supposed to abstract away.
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LGBT culture in New York City
New York City has been described as the gay capital of the world and the central node of the LGBTQ+ sociopolitical ecosystem, and is home to one of the world's largest and most prominent LGBTQ+ populations.
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List of LGBT people from New York City
New York City has been described as the gay capital of the world and the central node of the LGBTQ+ sociopolitical ecosystem.
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List of tech companies in the New York metropolitan area
Technology companies in the New York City metropolitan area represent a significant and growing economic component of the New York metropolitan area, the most populous combined statistical area in the United States and one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world.
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Lower Galilee
The Lower Galilee (translit) is a region within the Northern District of Israel.
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Manhattan
Manhattan is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City.
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Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington.
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Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet editor developed by Microsoft for Windows, macOS, Android, iOS and iPadOS.
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Multiple citizenship
Multiple citizenship (or multiple nationality) is a person's legal status in which a person is at the same time recognized by more than one country under its nationality and citizenship law as a national or citizen of that country.
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New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
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New Zealanders
New Zealanders (Tāngata Aotearoa) are people associated with New Zealand, sharing a common history, culture, and language (New Zealand English).
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Null character
The null character (also null terminator) is a control character with the value zero.
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Null-terminated string
In computer programming, a null-terminated string is a character string stored as an array containing the characters and terminated with a null character (a character with an internal value of zero, called "NUL" in this article, not same as the glyph zero).
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NYC Pride March
The NYC Pride March is an annual event celebrating the LGBTQ community in New York City.
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Painter's algorithm
The painter's algorithm (also depth-sort algorithm and priority fill) is an algorithm for visible surface determination in 3D computer graphics that works on a polygon-by-polygon basis rather than a pixel-by-pixel, row by row, or area by area basis of other Hidden-Surface Removal algorithms.
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Pierson College
Pierson College is a residential college at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
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Root cause analysis
In the field of science and engineering, root cause analysis (RCA) is a method of problem solving used for identifying the root causes of faults or problems.
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Scope (computer science)
In computer programming, the scope of a name binding (an association of a name to an entity, such as a variable) is the part of a program where the name binding is valid; that is, where the name can be used to refer to the entity.
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Software design
Software design is the process of conceptualizing how a software system will work before it is implemented or modified.
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Springer Nature
Springer Nature or the Springer Nature Group is a German-British academic publishing company created by the May 2015 merger of Springer Science+Business Media and Holtzbrinck Publishing Group's Nature Publishing Group, Palgrave Macmillan, and Macmillan Education.
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Stack Exchange
Stack Exchange is a network of question-and-answer (Q&A) websites on topics in diverse fields, each site covering a specific topic, where questions, answers, and users are subject to a reputation award process.
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Stack Overflow
Stack Overflow is a question-and-answer website for computer programmers.
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Trello
Trello is a web-based, kanban-style, list-making application developed by Atlassian.
University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania, commonly referenced as Penn or UPenn, is a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Upper West Side
The Upper West Side (UWS) is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City.
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Viacom (2005–2019)
The second phase of Viacom Inc. (or; a portmanteau of Video & Audio Communications), was an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate with interests primarily in film and television.
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Visual Basic for Applications
Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) is an implementation of Microsoft's event-driven programming language Visual Basic 6.0 built into most desktop Microsoft Office applications.
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Yale University
Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.
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Yiddish
Yiddish (ייִדיש, יידיש or אידיש, yidish or idish,,; ייִדיש-טײַטש, historically also Yidish-Taytsh) is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews.
YouTube
YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.
35th Paratroopers Brigade (Israel)
The 35th "Paratroopers" Brigade (חֲטִיבַת הַצַּנְחָנִים, Hativat HaTzanhanim) is an Israeli military airborne infantry brigade.
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See also
Israeli male bloggers
- Alexander Lapshin
- Andi Gutmans
- Daniel Ravner
- Hillel Fuld
- Idan Matalon
- Joel Spolsky
- Lior Suchard
- Mati Shemoelof
- Nas Daily
- Nate Fish
- Raviv Drucker
- Roy Schwartz Tichon
- Uri Geller
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Spolsky
Also known as Fix it twice, Joel On Software, Joel Test, Joel on Software (weblog), Joelonsoftware, Joelonsoftware.com, Schlemiel the Painter's Algorithm, Schlemiel the Painters algorithm, Shlemiel the Painter's algorithm, Spolsky, Joel, The Joel Test.
, Yale University, Yiddish, YouTube, 35th Paratroopers Brigade (Israel).