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 | 15 May 2012 02:38
Jeff Atwood writes "....The whole "everyone should learn programming" meme has gotten so out of control that the mayor of New York City actually vowed to learn to code in 2012.
A noble gesture to garner the NYC tech community vote, for sure, but if the mayor of New..."
Read more » Please Don't Learn to Code
Coding Horror | 07 May 2012 01:41
Jeff Atwood writes "....Fair warning: this is a blog post about automated cat feeders. Sort of. But bear with me, because I'm also trying to make a point about software. If you have a sudden urge to click the back button on your browser now, I don't blame you. I don't..."
Read more » This Is All Your App Is: a Collection of Tiny Details
Coding Horror | 03 May 2012 15:00
Jeff Atwood writes "....Despite popular assertions to the contrary, science tells us that money can buy happiness. To a point.
Recent research has begun to distinguish two aspects of subjective well-being. Emotional well-being refers to the emotional quality of an..."
Read more » Buying Happiness
Coding Horror | 01 May 2012 18:48
Jeff Atwood writes "....We reflexively instruct our children to always tell the truth. It's even encoded into Boy Scout Law. It's what adults do, isn't it? But do we? Isn't telling the truth too much and too often a bad life strategy – perhaps even dangerous? Is..."
Read more » Trust Me, I'm Lying
Coding Horror | 27 Apr 2012 00:15
Jeff Atwood writes "....To understand this story, you need to understand that grandchildren are like crack cocaine to grandparents. I'm convinced that if our parents could somehow snort our children up their noses to get a bigger fix, they would. And when your parents..."
Read more » Geekatoo, the Geek Bat-Signal
Coding Horror | 23 Apr 2012 15:52
Jeff Atwood writes "....I've been an eBay user since 1999, and I still frequent eBay as both buyer and seller. In that time, eBay has transformed from a place where geeks sell broken laser pointers to each other, into a global marketplace where businesses sell anything..."
Read more » Will Apps Kill Websites?
Coding Horror | 17 Apr 2012 16:59
Jeff Atwood writes "....It's only a matter of time until your email gets hacked. Don't believe me? Just read this harrowing cautionary tale.
When [my wife] came back to her desk, half an hour later, she couldn’t log into Gmail at all. By that time, I was up and..."
Read more » Make Your Email Hacker Proof
Coding Horror | 16 Apr 2012 13:09
Jeff Atwood writes "....In the calculus of communication, writing coherent paragraphs that your fellow human beings can comprehend and understand is far more difficult than tapping out a few lines of software code that the interpreter or compiler won't barf on.
That's..."
Read more » Learn to Read the Source, Luke
Coding Horror | 10 Apr 2012 14:13
Jeff Atwood writes "....I adore words, but let's face it: books suck.
More specifically, so many beautiful ideas have been helplessly trapped in physical made-of-atoms books for the last few centuries. How do books suck? Let me count the ways:
They are heavy.
They..."
Read more » Books: Bits vs. Atoms
Coding Horror | 06 Apr 2012 03:17
Jeff Atwood writes "....Hashes are a bit like fingerprints for data.
A given hash uniquely represents a file, or any arbitrary collection of data. At least in theory. This is a 128-bit MD5 hash you're looking at above, so it can represent at most 2128 unique items, or..."
Read more » Speed Hashing
