Jeff Atwood

Jeff Atwood

Jeff Atwood is an American software developer, author, blogger, and entrepreneur. He is known for the programming blog Coding Horror, and is the co-founder of the question-and-answer website Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange Network.[1]

Early life

As a teenager, Atwood got into trouble with the law when he hacked into a bulletin board system.[2]

Career

In 2008, together with Joel Spolsky, Atwood founded Stack Overflow, a programming question-and-answer website. The site quickly became very popular,[3] 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.[4]

In February 2012, Atwood left Stack Exchange so he could spend more time with his family.[5]

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.[6]

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.[7] Atwood and others developed it out of their frustration with current bulletin board software that hadn't seemed to evolve since 1990.[8]

He also launched a new mechanical keyboard called CODE[9] in 2013.

Published works

References

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

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