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.

External links

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