I went to one of his StackOverflow Dev Days. While I didn't speak to him, I caught glimpses of him every so often standing by himself amongst a sea of developers that made me think that he's getting a bit bored with... things... for lack of a better term. I'm not sure whether "things" would be his business, software development, or a combination of things in his life. The problem with being Joel from JoelOnSoftware is that you have to always be on. You can't ever have an opinion about anything without getting into a discussion with someone about it. Like you, I hope he just goes on sabbatical.
Blogging/writing on a regular basis is a lot like polling vs event-driven programming. Joel's been polling himself way too often trying to come up with something to write so that he can publish something. When you poll for something, 90% of the time you'll find the thing you're precisely NOT interested in. I'm sure he'll be back when there's something good to talk about.
Blogging/writing on a regular basis is a lot like polling vs event-driven programming. Joel's been polling himself way too often trying to come up with something to write so that he can publish something. When you poll for something, 90% of the time you'll find the thing you're precisely NOT interested in. I'm sure he'll be back when there's something good to talk about.