Video Interview with Jeff Atwood aka CodingHorror.com

Check out this great video interview with the Jeff Atwood who writes the fantastic blog at codinghorror.com:

Jeff was kind enough to sit down after his session at the 2010 Silicon Valley CodeCamp. The video is filled with some great quotes like this one:

If you can’t come up with at least one interesting thing to talk about every day, you’re not trying hard enough! The world is just full of fascinating stuff. – Jeff Atwood

To understand the context of that statement and hear more, watch the video. In it, Jeff discusses:

• his popular blog CodingHorror.com
• StackOverflow.com - his business venture w/Joel Spolsky
• the tyvek wallet
• why continual learning is important
• his internet fame
• StackOverflow
  • Issues and the other related sites
  • What made StackOverflow so popular?
  • Site is more popular than his and Joel’s blogs
• His HTML 5 talk
  • HTML 5 local storage
    • Great resource -> diveintohtml5.org
  • Safari and browser cookies issue
• Responsible advertising
  - Yes, DevExpress advertises on StackOverflow :)
• Other HTML 5 use cases
• Advertising and user experience
• Mobile browsers
• Why is it’s hard to fully support mobile browser for StackOverflow?
• Where does his blog ideas come from?
  • Communities and subcultures FTW!
  • He's a google fanatic
  • Internet rubber necking

If you’d like to reach him then contact him via:

• StackExchange profile
• Post to his daily hangout: http://meta.stackoverflow.com
• He hates email, so be sure to email him here
• Or follow him on twitter

Thanks Jeff!

I recommend you watch the video then check out his work at codinghorror.com and stackoverflow.com.

I'm on twitter

Free DevExpress Products – Get Your Copy Today