One of the things that I love about Fog Creek is that we give back. Kiln can only exist because of the amazing foundation provided by the Mercurial distributed version control system, so we try to help them out whenever we can. In the past, we’ve done ...

You know why I love working on Kiln every day? Because we’ve got a mission, dammit. Mission, not mission statement. The Kiln team doesn’t have a mission statement, and I’ll fight to keep it that way. Mission statements, no matter how well intentioned, ...

It was a lot of fun to vet dirty laundry in my last post on how one of our deployments went really wrong. But part of why that incident stuck out so strongly in my mind is that things so rarely go wrong. Why is that? I think it’s because we do a lot ...

Every once and awhile, you have an idea that you totally think is the bee’s knees but which ends up being the bee’s ass. When Kiln and FogBugz went to a weekly release cycle a few weeks ago, we had what we thought, if not a brilliant idea, was a pretty ...

Speaking of fascinating user experiences, I had to crack a smile when going through Disqus today and approving a pile of comments that got locked in the queue for some reason. On every single one, after clicking on the Approve button, I was greeted with: ...

Update: VMware followed up with me this morning, and has done a great job getting me help and outlining how they’re planning to address a lot of the complaints I’ve had. We’ll have to see what happens over the next few months, but so far, VMware has ...

At Fog Creek, we heavily use HipChat to handle quick internal communication. One thing we decided we wanted on the Kiln team was to get real-time notifications whenever anyone pushed to one of our main repositories. Thankfully, Kiln has a feature called ...

I’m really proud of all the work that we’ve been able to pour into Kiln over the last two years. In March of 2009, we had nothing more than a prototype. By October, we had a beta. By January, we were shipping Kiln 1.0. And just a few months later, we ...

When I attended Open Source Bridge two weeks ago, I wanted something to hack on while I was there. The upcoming version of Kiln moves from relying on a combination of explicit threads and FogBugz’ heartbeat mechanism to using a very lightweight queuing ...

I try not to throw too many out-and-out advertisements into this blog, but I’m very proud to announce that Kiln 1.2 is out. When Kiln 1.0 shipped back in February, it was awesome, but still very much a 1.0 product. While Kiln’s still under heavy ...