Jeff Atwood

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Jeff Atwood

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

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Early life [edit]

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

Career [edit]

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 Stack Exchange network which includes many Q&A websites surrounding topics decided on by the community.

From 2008 to 2010 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]

On February 6, 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]

Personal [edit]

Atwood lives in El Cerrito, California.[9]

Published work [edit]

  • The ASP.NET 2.0 Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks, by Scott Allen, Jeff Atwood, Wyatt Barnett, Jon Galloway and Phil Haack. ISBN 0-9802858-1-X ISBN 978-0980285819
  • Effective Programming: More Than Writing Code

References [edit]

  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. ^ http://2008.cusec.net/en/speakers.php[dead link]
  5. ^ http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/07/jeff-atwood-bids-adieu-to-stack-exchange-for-the-best-reason-ever/
  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. ^ "Jeff Atwood's user page". Stack Overflow. Retrieved 2012-10-14. 

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