Jeff Atwood

Jeff Atwood
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 is development of Discourse, an open source Internet discussion platform.[3]

Career

In 2008, together with Joel 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]

Atwood is credited with the proposal of "Atwood's Law" which is a corollary to the Rule of least power design principle. It states that any application that can be written in JavaScript will eventually be written in JavaScript.[8]

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.[9] Atwood and others developed it out of their frustration with current bulletin board software that hadn't seemed to evolve since 1990.[10]

He also launched a mechanical keyboard called CODE in 2013.[11]

Books

References

  1. Atwood, Jeff (August 8, 2012). "I Was a Teenage Hacker". Coding Horror. Retrieved May 5, 2016.
  2. Atwood, Jeff (May 9, 2006). "The Ten Commandments of Egoless Programming". Coding Horror. Retrieved May 5, 2016.
  3. 1 2 Finley, Klint (July 5, 2012). "Stack Overflow Man Remakes Net One Answer at a Time". Wired. Retrieved May 5, 2016.
  4. Atwood, Jeff (June 5, 2015). "Programmerchat: I am Jeff Atwood". Reddit. Retrieved May 5, 2016.
  5. "Stackoverflow.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2012-08-02.
  6. "Is Writing More Important Than Programming?". Archive of Previous Presentations. CUSEC. 2008. Retrieved 27 October 2013.
  7. "Jeff Atwood bids adieu to Stack Exchange for the best reason ever". techcrunch.com. AOL. 7 February 2012.
  8. Atwood, Jeff (2007-07-17). "The Principle of Least Power". Coding Horror. Retrieved 2012-10-13.
  9. 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.
  10. Atwood, Jeff (February 5, 2013). "Civilized Discourse Construction Kit". Retrieved February 8, 2013.
  11. Atwood, Jeff (August 27, 2013). "The CODE Keyboard". blog.codinghorror.com. Retrieved 29 August 2013.

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