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 | 19 Nov 2008 23:59
Jeff Atwood writes "....For as long as I've been a software developer and used bug tracking systems, we have struggled with the same fundamental problem in every single project we've worked on: how do you tell bugs from feature requests?
Sure, there are some obvious..."
Read more » That's Not a Bug, It's a Feature Request
Coding Horror | 17 Nov 2008 23:59
Jeff Atwood writes "....Remember last week when I said coding was just writing?
I was wrong. As one commenter noted, it's even simpler than that.
[This] reminds me of a true "Dilbert moment" a few years ago, when my (obviously non-technical) boss commented that he..."
Read more » We Are Typists First, Programmers Second
Coding Horror | 15 Nov 2008 05:05
Jeff Atwood writes "....Have you ever heard a software engineer refer to a problem as "NP-complete"? That's fancy computer science jargon shorthand for "incredibly hard":
The most notable characteristic of NP-complete problems is that no fast solution to them is known;..."
Read more » Your Favorite NP-Complete Cheat
Coding Horror | 12 Nov 2008 23:59
Jeff Atwood writes "....If you've ever searched for anything, you've probably run into stop words. Stop words are words so common they are typically ignored for search purposes. That is, if you type in a stop word as one of your search terms, the search engine will ignore..."
Read more » Stop Me If You Think You've Seen This Word Before
Coding Horror | 10 Nov 2008 23:59
Jeff Atwood writes "....Hello, my name is Jeff Atwood, and I'm an addict.
I'm addicted... to video cards.
In fact, I've been addicted since 1996. Well, maybe a few years earlier than that if you count some of the classic 2D accelerators. But the true fascination didn't..."
Read more » Feeding My Graphics Card Addiction
Coding Horror | 08 Nov 2008 23:59
Jeff Atwood writes "....In The Programming Aphorisms of Strunk and White, James Devlin does a typically excellent job of examining something I've been noticing myself over the last five years:
The unexpected relationship between writing code and writing.
There is..."
Read more » Coding: It's Just Writing
Coding Horror | 04 Nov 2008 23:59
Jeff Atwood writes "....My recent post on netbooks reminded me of Alan Kay's original 1972 Dynabook concept (pdf).
We now have some reasons for wanting the DynaBook to exist. Can it be fabricated from currently invented technology in quantities large enough to
bring a..."
Read more » Remembering the Dynabook
Coding Horror | 30 Oct 2008 23:22
Jeff Atwood writes "....I like to take one or two books with me when I travel, and one of the books I chose for this trip is HCI Remixed.
Sometimes the books I choose are a bust. Fortunately that didn't happen this time.
HCI Remixed covers all the major milestones in..."
Read more » HCI Remixed
Coding Horror | 29 Oct 2008 23:59
Jeff Atwood writes "....URLs are simple things. Or so you'd think. Let's say you wanted to detect an URL in a block of text and convert it into a bona fide hyperlink. No problem, right?
Visit my website at http://www.example.com, it's awesome!
To locate the URL in the..."
Read more » The Problem With URLs
Coding Horror | 25 Oct 2008 23:59
Jeff Atwood writes "....I've been reading a lot of good things about the emerging "netbook" category of subnotebooks:
The term netbook refers to a category of small to medium sized, light-weight, low-cost, energy-efficient, Internet-centric laptops, generally optimized..."
Read more » The Web Browser is the New Laptop
