Jeff Atwood (1970) is an American

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, author, blogger, and entrepreneur. 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. He is the owner and writer of the computer programming blog ''Coding Horror'', focused on programming and human factors. Atwood's most recent project as of 2012 is the development of

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, an

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Internet discussion platform.

Career

Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood present at MIX09 (3365546017)

Atwood started a programming blog, Coding Horror, in 2004. As a result, he met Joel Spolsky, among others. In 2007, Jeff Atwood made the quote that was popularly referred to as Atwood’s Law:

“Any application that ''can'' be written in JavaScript, ''will'' eventually be written in JavaScript.”

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

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issues. Jeff Atwood was also a keynote presenter at the 2008 Canadian University Software Engineering Conference. In February 2012, Atwood left Stack Exchange so he could spend more time with his family. On February 5, 2013, Atwood announced his new company, Civilized Discourse Construction Kit, Inc. Its flagship product is an

next-generation discussion platform called

. Atwood and others developed it out of their frustration with current

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software that hadn't seemed to evolve since 1990. He also launched a mechanical keyboard called ''CODE'' in 2013.

Books

* ''The ASP.NET 2.0 Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks'', by Scott Allen, Jeff Atwood, Wyatt Barnett, Jon Galloway and Phil Haack. * ''Effective Programming: More Than Writing Code''.

References

External links

Profile on ''Coding Horror''
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