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Film Documents Software Creation

Posted by Zonk on from the nerds-in-the-movies dept.

vasanth writes "Aardvark'd: 12 Weeks with Geeks a story of intern programmers at New York-based Fog Creek Software creating a product from scratch to shipping, is now finished, one of the first films to delve wholly into the life and culture of coding. And though it may not be the next Harry Potter, it's an engaging film that focuses more on the personalities of the people than on the technology, bringing to life a process ordinarily wrapped in geek mystique."

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  1. Re:so this is basically an advertisement? by Seumas · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You must be new here. That has been Joel's modus operandi for months now. If he farts and writes about the delectible smell, it winds up on Slashdot.

  2. Re:Joel by Seumas · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'll tell you waht I'm jealous about -- I'm jealous of that sweet UID you have. Bastard.

  3. Re:What? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It seems like everything today is being turned into a film or reality show. Not everything is exciting, especially coding a new project. In fact, that's probably one of the least exciting things they could have focused on.

    Not to mention that Joel is pretty much out of karma - the guy has been preaching as a self-anointed genius of software development for over half a decade now.

    So what has he achieved?

    Well he still has a tiny shop - about the same size that he had when he cashed in his Microsoft options. A large portion of his pimping is for trivial crap like his endless use of Amazon affiliate links, as well as attention whoring. Of his products, one is a trivial, overpriced rip of an open source VPN, the other was a marginal CMS that they've pretty much canned, along with a one-of-about-a-million-clones bug tracking package.

    Woot!

    What a prophet.