Jeff Atwood
Jeff Atwood | |
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Born | 1970[1][2] |
Occupation | Software developer, writer |
Known for | Coding Horror (blog), Stack Overflow, Stack Exchange[3][4] |
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.
Atwood's most recent project as of 2012 is the development of Discourse, an open source Internet discussion platform.[3]
Career
Atwood started a programming blog, Coding Horror, in 2004. As a result, he met programming luminary Joel Spolsky, among others.
In 2008, together with Spolsky, Atwood founded Stack Overflow, a programming question-and-answer website. The site quickly became very popular,[5] 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.[6]
In February 2012, Atwood left Stack Exchange so he could spend more time with his family.[7]
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.[8] Atwood and others developed it out of their frustration with current bulletin board software that hadn't seemed to evolve since 1990.[9]
He also launched a mechanical keyboard called CODE in 2013.[10]
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
- ↑ Atwood, Jeff (August 8, 2012). "I Was a Teenage Hacker". Coding Horror. Retrieved May 5, 2016.
- ↑ Atwood, Jeff (May 9, 2006). "The Ten Commandments of Egoless Programming". Coding Horror. Retrieved May 5, 2016.
- 1 2 Finley, Klint (July 5, 2012). "Stack Overflow Man Remakes Net One Answer at a Time". Wired. Retrieved May 5, 2016.
- ↑ Atwood, Jeff (June 5, 2015). "Programmerchat: I am Jeff Atwood". Reddit. Retrieved May 5, 2016.
- ↑ "Stackoverflow.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2012-08-02.
- ↑ "Is Writing More Important Than Programming?". Archive of Previous Presentations. CUSEC. 2008. Retrieved 27 October 2013.
- ↑ "Jeff Atwood bids adieu to Stack Exchange for the best reason ever". techcrunch.com. AOL. 7 February 2012.
- ↑ Ha, Anthony (February 5, 2013). "Stack Exchange Co-Founder Jeff Atwood Launches Forums Startup Discourse, With Funding From First Round, Greylock, And SV Angel". TechCrunch. AOL. Retrieved February 8, 2013.
- ↑ Atwood, Jeff (February 5, 2013). "Civilized Discourse Construction Kit". Retrieved February 8, 2013.
- ↑ Atwood, Jeff (August 27, 2013). "The CODE Keyboard". blog.codinghorror.com. Retrieved 29 August 2013.
External links
- Coding Horror blog
- About Me in Coding Horror.
- Jeff Atwood on Twitter