FogBugz is an amazing piece of sofware. Joel Spolsky‘s company appear to have come up with the impossible: software that not only helps you to keep track of your software projects, but is also functionally beautiful and beautifully functional.

That’s something pretty rare in software. One of my mantras when testing is…

First, make it work. Then worry about making it pretty.

(The latter hardly ever happens of course.) FogBugz embodies both, and others agree. Now I’m waiting for a 45-day project to come up so I can try it out, for free, in anger.