Jeff Atwood is an American software developer, author, blogger, and entrepreneur. He writes the computer programming blog Coding Horror. 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.

Atwood's most recent project as of 2012 is the development of Discourse, an open source Internet discussion platform.[3]

Career [ edit ]

Atwood started a programming blog, Coding Horror, in 2004. As a result, he met Joel Spolsky, among others.

In 2008, together with Spolsky, Atwood founded Stack Overflow, a programming question-and-answer website. The site quickly became very popular,[5] 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 software development issues. Jeff Atwood was also a keynote presenter at the 2008 Canadian University Software Engineering Conference.[6]

In February 2012, Atwood left Stack Exchange so he could spend more time with his family.[7]

On February 5, 2013, Atwood announced his new company, Civilized Discourse Construction Kit, Inc. Its flagship product is an open source next-generation discussion platform called Discourse.[8] Atwood and others developed it out of their frustration with current bulletin board software that hadn't seemed to evolve since 1990.[9]

He also launched a mechanical keyboard called CODE in 2013.[10]

Books [ edit ]

The ASP.NET 2.0 Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks , by Scott Allen, Jeff Atwood, Wyatt Barnett, Jon Galloway and Phil Haack. ISBN 978-0980285819

, by Scott Allen, Jeff Atwood, Wyatt Barnett, Jon Galloway and Phil Haack. ISBN 978-0980285819 Effective Programming: More Than Writing Code. ISBN 9781478300540