Great story, thanks for sharing. I believe that Joel's ideas like using source control, making a build in one step, having a bug database, having the best tool

Great story, thanks for sharing. I believe that Joel's ideas like using source control, making a build in one step, having a bug database, having the best tools that money can buy, and writing a spec resonated with me in great part because I worked on ERP-style projects that were often built to support large and complex business processes that were well defined.