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Name
  
Jeff Atwood


Role
  
Software Developer

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Books
  
Our Big, Big God, The ASP.NET 2.0 Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks

Similar
  
Joel Spolsky, Steve Yegge, Douglas Crockford, Brendan Eich, John Gruber

Profiles

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Jeff Atwood is an American software developer, author, blogger, and entrepreneur. He writes the computer programming blog Coding Horror. He co-founded the computer programming question-and-answer website Stack Overflow and co-founded Stack Exchange, which extends Stack Overflow's question-and-answer model to subjects other than programming.

Contents

Jeff Atwood StackExchange Founder Vows to Reinvent Online Discourse

Atwood's most recent project as of 2012 is the development of Discourse, an open source Internet discussion platform.

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Jeff Atwood: Stack Overflow and Coding Horror | MIT Artificial Intelligence (AI) Podcast


Career

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Atwood started a programming blog, Coding Horror, in 2004. As a result, he met Joel Spolsky, among others.

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On July 17, 2007, as a corollary to Tim Berners-Lee's Rule of Least Power, Atwood proposed Atwood's Law which states that "Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript."

In 2008, together with Spolsky, Atwood founded Stack Overflow, a programming question-and-answer website. The site quickly became very popular, and was followed by Server Fault for system administrators, and Super User for general computer-related questions, eventually becoming the Stack Exchange network which includes many Q&A websites about topics decided on by the community.

From 2008 to 2014, Atwood and Spolsky published a weekly podcast covering the progress on Stack Exchange and a wide range of software development issues. Jeff Atwood was also a keynote presenter at the 2008 Canadian University Software Engineering Conference.

In February 2012, Atwood left Stack Exchange so he could spend more time with his family.

On February 5, 2013, Atwood announced his new company, Civilized Discourse Construction Kit, Inc. Its flagship product is an open source next-generation discussion platform called Discourse. Atwood and others developed it out of their frustration with current bulletin board software that hadn't seemed to evolve since 1990.

He also launched a mechanical keyboard called CODE in 2013.

Books

  • The ASP.NET 2.0 Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks, by Scott Allen, Jeff Atwood, Wyatt Barnett, Jon Galloway and Phil Haack. ISBN 978-0980285819
  • Effective Programming: More Than Writing Code. ISBN 9781478300540
  • References

    Jeff Atwood Wikipedia