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Joel worked at MS on office, Excel if I recall correctly. Jeff's blog is named for a feature from a book published by MS. I would be more surprised if it was

Joel worked at MS on office, Excel if I recall correctly. Jeff's blog is named for a feature from a book published by MS. I would be more surprised if it was MS free.

jeroen 12y ago
"I started my career at Microsoft, a little software company outside of Seattle, where I was a program manager on the Excel team. My area was “programmability” and most of what I worked on in those days was replacing the Excel macro language (XLMs) with Excel Basic, and providing an object-oriented interface to Excel. Excel Basic became Visual Basic for Applications and the OO interface is what you know as OLE Automation, a.k.a. IDispatch." -- http://www.joelonsoftware.com/AboutMe.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/AboutMe.html
Alupis 12y ago
You mean to tell me Joel is partially responsible for the abomination known as Excel 2007 where I can't pull-drag the damn window from screen to screen (but all of the other Office 2007 products do!)
- mistermann 12y ago
  WIN+SHIFT+ArrowKey
- tim333 12y ago
  He seems to have left Microsoft in 1995, so no, not really.
skeletonjelly 12y ago
Trello (by Joel's company) is OS agnostic (running on MongoDB and node.js). But from memory they did this to learn new tools.