Jeff Atwood

Jeff Atwood
Jeff Atwood in 2008
Born	1970
Occupation	Software developer, writer
Known for	Coding Horror (blog), Stack Overflow, Stack Exchange

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.

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

On July 17, 2007, as a corollary to Tim Berners-Lee's Rule of Least Power, Atwood proposed Atwood's Law which states that "Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript." A quick survey of the Web demonstrates that his prophecy continues to hold true.

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 software development issues. Jeff Atwood was also a keynote presenter at the 2008 Canadian University Software Engineering Conference.