Jeff Atwood
Jeff Atwood is a longtime agnostic Windows ecosystem developer. He currently writes for his blog Coding Horror while building Stack Overflow, a community oriented question and answer website for software developers.
Coding Horror | 22 Feb 2010 02:41
Jeff Atwood writes "....I find it difficult to believe, but the reports keep pouring in via Twitter and email: many candidates who show up for programming job interviews can't program. At all. Consider this recent email from Mike Lin:
The article Why Can't..."
Read more » The Non-Programming Programmer
Coding Horror | 12 Feb 2010 23:03
Jeff Atwood writes "....I apologize for the scarcity of updates lately. There have been two things in the way:
Continuing fallout from International Backup Awareness Day, which meant all updates to Coding Horror from that point onward were hand-edited text files. Which,..."
Read more » Welcome Back Comments
Coding Horror | 25 Jan 2010 12:00
Jeff Atwood writes "....How much is a good idea worth? According to Derek Sivers, not much:
It's so funny when I hear people being so protective of ideas. (People who want me to sign an NDA to tell me the simplest idea.) To me, ideas are worth nothing unless..."
Read more » Cultivate Teams, Not Ideas
Coding Horror | 18 Jan 2010 12:00
Jeff Atwood writes "....Have you ever opened a simple little ASCII text file to see it inexplicably displayed as onegiantunbrokenline?
Opening the file in a different, smarter text editor results in the file displayed properly in multiple paragraphs.
The answer..."
Read more » The Great Newline Schism
Coding Horror | 10 Jan 2010 12:00
Jeff Atwood writes "....As a long time reader of Joey DeVilla's excellent blog, Global Nerdy, I take exception to his post Fast Food, Apple Pies, and Why Netbooks Suck:
The end result, to my mind, is a device that occupies an uncomfortable, middle ground between..."
Read more » A Democracy of Netbooks
Coding Horror | 29 Dec 2009 12:00
Jeff Atwood writes "....I'm a big fan of John Gruber's Markdown. When it comes to humane markup languages for the web, I don't think anyone's quite nailed it like Mr. Gruber. His philosophy was clear from the outset:
Markdown is intended to be as..."
Read more » Responsible Open Source Code Parenting
Coding Horror | 17 Dec 2009 12:00
Jeff Atwood writes "....I can't believe it's been almost two and a half years since I built my last PC. I originally documented that process in a series of posts:
Building a PC, Part I: Minimal boot
Building a PC, Part II: Burn in
Building a PC, Part III:..."
Read more » Building a PC, Part VI: Rebuilding
Coding Horror | 14 Dec 2009 12:00
Jeff Atwood writes "....You may notice that commenting is currently disabled, and many old Coding Horror posts are missing images. That's because, sometime early on Friday, the server this blog is hosted on suffered catastrophic data loss.
Here's what..."
Read more » International Backup Awareness Day
Coding Horror | 10 Dec 2009 12:00
Jeff Atwood writes "....I recently added microformat support to the free public CVs at careers.stackoverflow.com by popular demand.
Designed for humans first and machines second, microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted..."
Read more » Microformats: Boon or Bane?
Coding Horror | 03 Dec 2009 12:00
Jeff Atwood writes "....I've been unhappy with every single piece of software I've ever released. Partly because, like many software developers, I'm a perfectionist. And then, there are inevitably … problems:
The schedule was too aggressive and too short...."
Read more » Version 1 Sucks, But Ship It Anyway
