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 | 27 Aug 2010 06:26
Jeff Atwood writes "....Kyle Brandt, a system administrator, asks Should Developers have Access to Production?
A question that comes up again and again in web development companies is:
"Should the developers have access to the production environment, and if they do, to..."
Read more » Vampires (Programmers) versus Werewolves (Sysadmins)
Coding Horror | 13 Aug 2010 05:10
Jeff Atwood writes "....Like any self-respecting geek, I'm mostly an indoor enthusiast.
But on those unfortunate occasions when I am compelled -- for reasons entirely beyond my control -- to leave the house, I do so fully armed with my crucial utility belt items. Yes,..."
Read more » What's On Your Utility Belt?
Coding Horror | 20 Jul 2010 03:05
Jeff Atwood writes "....On a recent airplane flight, I happened to catch the movie Groundhog Day. Again.
If you aren't familiar with this classic film, the premise is simple: Bill Murray, somehow, gets stuck reliving the same day over and over.
It's been at least 5..."
Read more » Groundhog Day, or, the Problem with A/B Testing
Coding Horror | 21 Jun 2010 04:37
Jeff Atwood writes "....Remember that Scene in Star Trek IV where Scotty tried to use a Mac Plus?
Using a mouse or keyboard to control a computer? Don't be silly. In the future, clearly there's only one way computers will be controlled: by speaking to them.
There's..."
Read more » Whatever Happened to Voice Recognition?
Coding Horror | 01 Jun 2010 04:05
Jeff Atwood writes "....After we created Stack Overflow, some people were convinced we had built a marginally better mousetrap for asking and answering questions. The inevitable speculation began: can we use your engine to build a Q&A site about {topic}? Our answer was..."
Read more » The Vast and Endless Sea
Coding Horror | 06 May 2010 06:27
Jeff Atwood writes "....When I first chose my own adventure, I didn't know what working remotely from home was going to be like. I had never done it before. As programmers go, I'm fairly social. Which still means I'm a borderline sociopath by normal standards. All the..."
Read more » On Working Remotely
Coding Horror | 30 Apr 2010 07:49
Jeff Atwood writes "....We're currently in the midst of a CSS Zen Garden type excerise on our family of Q&A websites, which I affectionately refer to as "the Trilogy":
Server Fault
Super User
Stack Overflow
Meta Stack Overflow
(In case you were wondering, yes, meta is..."
Read more » What's Wrong With CSS
Coding Horror | 21 Apr 2010 03:37
Jeff Atwood writes "....I have what I would charitably describe as a hate-hate relationship with email. I desperately try to avoid sending email, not just for myself, but also in the code I write.
Despite my misgivings, email is the cockroach of communication mediums:..."
Read more » So You'd Like to Send Some Email (Through Code)
Coding Horror | 04 Apr 2010 23:10
Jeff Atwood writes "....As far as I'm concerned, you can never be too rich, too thin, or have too much screen space. By "screen", I mean not just large monitors, but multiple large monitors. I've been evangelizing multiple monitors since the dark days of Windows..."
Read more » Three Monitors For Every User
Coding Horror | 31 Mar 2010 23:59
Jeff Atwood writes "....Writing code? That's the easy part. Getting your application in the hands of users, and creating applications that people actually want to use -- now that's the hard stuff.
I've been a long time fan of Krug's book Don't Make Me Think. Not..."
Read more » Usability On The Cheap and Easy
