Five Pitfalls To Avoid When Outsourcing Software Development
If you're not careful, what starts as an effort to save time and money can quickly mutate into a major headache.
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How to Make Good Code Reviews Better
I have been doing day-to-day code reviews for over a decade now. The benefits of code reviews are plenty: someone spot checks your work for errors, they get to learn from your solution, and the collaboration helps to improve the organization’s overall approach to tooling and automation. If you’re not currently doing code reviews in…
Job Hunting: How to Find Your Next Step by Taking Your Search Offline
Job seeking in the tech world in 2019 is in an unusual place. The industry is growing rapidly, with innovative new technologies and applications appearing regularly. At the moment, there are far more jobs available nationwide than there are devs to take them, but unfortunately that doesn’t always mean that finding your next challenge is…
Meet the Developer Who Took Stack Overflow from Screen to Stage
We chatted with Jen Weber, developer at Cardstack and open source advocate, who found a creative way to engage with Ember users and the wider developer community via livestream Stack Overflow sessions. She recently took her show on the road to EmberCamp. You probably remember your high school English teacher saying “Show, don’t tell.” Turns…
Samantha Hill
Communications Associate
Joel Spolsky and Clive Thompson discuss the past, present, and future of coding
What inspires someone to become a software developer? Joel Spolsky and Clive Thompson discuss how the culture of coding has evolved over the decades and where they hope it’s headed next.
Ben Popper
Director of Content
Practical Ways to Write Better JavaScript
There are lots of simple things you can do to improve at JavaScript. Here are some methods we use to write better JS.
Ryland Goldstein
Head of Product at Temporal
How This Git Whiz Grew His Career Through Stack Overflow
Sascha Wolf started using Stack Overflow as resource for homework help. But it quickly became his community, and a path to new career opportunities.
Medi Madelen Gwosdz
Content Strategist - Former
“They Didn’t Teach Us This”: A Crash Course for Your First Job in Software
From Personal Projects To Production Code
Max Pekarsky
Software Engineer
Apollo Mission: The Pros and Cons of Being an Early Adopter of New Technology
Using cutting edge tech can help you move fast. But what happens when something breaks and you can't find experts with an answer? There are pros and cons to being a pioneer.
Cassidy Williams
Principal Developer Experience Engineer at Netlify, Co-curator of The Overflow
CROKAGE: A New Way to Search Stack Overflow
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 answers. When a developer is stuck on a coding problem, they search through this vast trove of information to see if a solution to their…
Ben Popper
Director of Content
What Every Developer Should Learn Early On
Some life lessons for how to approach the craft of coding and the journey of becoming a better developer.
Ryland Goldstein
Head of Product at Temporal