Abby T. Mars

company December 20, 2012

Apptivate.MS: the results are in!

After almost three months, Apptivate – the application development contest collaboration between Stack Overflow and Microsoft – has come to an end. Let’s get to the big news right off the bat. Congratulations to our two Apptivate.MS Grand Prize Winners: Piano Time and Layout! Congratulations to Piano Time and Layout! Layout is a powerful tool…
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company December 10, 2012

Announcing the Apptivate.MS competition semi-finals

When we announced the Apptivate.MS competition two months ago, we were hoping that a few members of this community would create and submit a few solid Windows 8 apps – forty or fifty, maybe. A hundred if it really went well. So when we saw all of the high-quality and innovative app submissions that poured…
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community December 12, 2011

Protect intellectual property – but not like this

Last week, there was a lot of hubbub on Meta Stack Overflow about a system message that ran on Stack Overflow. The system message read: SOPA is a dangerous law. It breaks the Internet and threatens sites like Stack Overflow. Protect the Internet! For the intents and purposes of this post, let’s bypass the controversy…
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community November 8, 2011

The Art of Organizing CHAOS

Three months ago, CHAOS was born unto this world. There were just three of us to begin with, and nobody had any clue what our team was supposed to be accomplishing. Well, that’s not completely true: from Joel’s blog post, we knew that our eventual goal was to grow the Stack Exchange communities past some…
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company August 20, 2011

We like our users and want to help them.

That’s why we’re pioneering a brand new future for them! A future involving software testers and the developers who love them. Stack Overflow and Game Development are communities of smart, talented programmers and developers creating more awesome new software than you can shake a stick at. Ask Different, Android, Super User, and Gaming are communities…
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