Code for a Living

CROKAGE: A New Way to Search Stack Overflow

by Ben Popper on August 14, 2019

One of the most powerful attributes of Stack Overflow (SO) is the accumulation of developers’ knowledge over time. Community members have contributed more than 18 million questions and 27 million...

What Every Developer Should Learn Early On

by Ryland Goldstein on August 7, 2019

Some life lessons for how to approach the craft of coding and the journey of becoming a better developer.

Find Help Online Mindfully — and Effectively!

by Max Pekarsky on July 30, 2019

Here’s a situation that might sound familiar: you’re in the middle of a project, and you realize you’re tackling a problem you haven’t seen before. Perhaps your search function query...

Making Sense of the Metadata: Clustering 4,000 Stack Overflow tags with BigQuery k-means

by Felipe Hoffa on July 24, 2019

Felipe Hoffa, a Developer Advocate for Google Cloud, explains how he used BigQuery to organize Stack Overflow tags into interesting groups.

Google got Looker. Salesforce bought Tableau. But open source tools are rising in popularity across the world of business intelligence and data analysis.

by Alessio Civitillo on July 16, 2019

Big companies are spending billions to acquire popular startups offering toolkits for data analysis. But open source alternatives provide developers another, more flexible option.