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Jeff Atwood

Coding Horror

#2 in Programming and Development

Description:   Jeff Atwood lives in Berkeley, CA. Atwood worked for Vertigo Software in Point Richmond, California between 2005 and 2008 and currently works full time on his blog while building stackoverflow.com with developer Joel Spolsky.

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10

"Hooked"

February 16, 2012

I read his blog for 15 minutes and I am already loving
it, he manages to tackle known issues in the field and
gives great tips on how to solve em'.

By lynnpye

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10

Excellent material

September 19, 2011

Excellent reading material if you're into well thought
out, well written geek prose.

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7

for hardcore programmers

February 04, 2010

if you have some issues with stack overflows, recursive
logging bugs, or cross site request forgeries on web
sites or if you cant decide if programming is an art, a
science, a process, or "just typing?" If you understood
any of those ideas and read this while transforming
source code, youre the kind of onward thinking code
programmer who will appreciate the deep thoughts of
Jeff Atwood at Coding Horror. this site is for hardcore
programmers and those who seek software development.

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9

Full Time Blogger

April 10, 2009

His notorious blog gets enough page hits that he can
live off of it, and have a startup on the side. His is
not a tech blog that ends up mostly talking about
politics, movies and culture. He caters to hard core
programmers. Once in a while he might get off topic,
but mostly he means business.

A recent post is titled "The Eight Levels of
Programmers." Guess what those eight are.

By Russpd

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8

A staple of Hacker News

April 06, 2009

Jeff Atwood's work seems to appear daily on Y
Combinator's Hacker News. Knowing the discerning and
critical audience at HN, this is a huge testament to
the quality of Atwood's commentary. Atwood discusses
high level software and programming issues with a
unique perspective. He is unafraid to challenge
conventional wisdom and incites a fair amount of debate
within the community by claiming that math skills are
not a strong requisite for a competent programmer.

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