Understanding quantified achievements on engineering resumes
How you should read numbers in a developers resume and what this kind of information says about a candidate.
Ryan Donovan
Ryan Donovan helps run editorial for the Stack Overflow blog. He's spend over 15 years as a technical writer embedded in software development teams across multiple industries. He lives in New York City and hopes to meet your dog some day.
Words That Set Off Developers’ BS Detectors
Here’s a few words to avoid adding to your job posting lest you draw the ire of an eagle-eyed dev.
Looking to understand which API is best for a certain task? A new study uses Stack Overflow data to rank them
But if you could collect and analyze the opinions posted within the comments and questions, you could start to get a bead on the aggregate sentiment, sort of a Yelp for technology. That’s just what Gias Uddin, now a Senior Data Scientist at the Bank of Canada, looked at for his PhD thesis at McGill University. Along with his PhD supervisor, Foutse Khomh, Associate Professor at Polytechnique Montréal, determined a method to mine opinions on APIs and libraries from questions and comments posted on Stack Overflow.
The Overflow Newsletter #3 – The 36 pieces of code that changed history
We chat about programming with ADHD, our most embarrassing programming mistakes, and spacecraft navigation.
Why Sencha is moving its support forums to Stack Overflow
One way to scale support for a product is to invest in the community already asking and answering questions about your technology on Stack Overflow.
The puzzle masters behind Facebook’s Hacker Cup explain how they craft questions
We go behind the scenes with two developers who create the coding questions for the annual Hacker Cup.
The Overflow Newsletter for October 18th, 2019
The Overflow newsletter #2: The podcast is back, AI on infinity, and an intro to Kubernetes