Stack Overflow Blog

November 11, 2019

Announcing: Support for GitHub Authentication in Stack Overflow

We are always looking for ways to make it easier to be a part of the Stack Overflow community. One of the ways we make things easy is by offering the option to log in via other services, like Google or Facebook. As of today, we’re adding another option to log in – GitHub! What…

Geoff Dalgas Developer

code-for-a-living November 8, 2019

Ben Popper is the Worst Coder In The World: Quantum Edition

It feels like programming would be a lot less intimidating if the vocabulary used to describe operators was closer to what the average person learned in school. Learning to concatenate a string sounds difficult. Putting a bunch of words together in a certain order, now that sounds approachable!

Ben Popper Director of Content

code-for-a-living November 7, 2019

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.

Ryan Donovan

code-for-a-living November 6, 2019

Let’s Get Graphic: A Few Ways To Draw On The Web

In this article, we’ll go over some of the popular approaches to graphics-intensive projects on the web, compare their advantages, and look at some sample code. By the end, you’ll be able to confidently make your choice, and get drawing!

Max Pekarsky Software Engineer

engineering November 4, 2019

A Technical Deep Dive into Our MS Teams Integration

How we approached and accomplished the integration between SO for Teams and MS Teams. This is a technical blog for folks who are interested in the process of how we got these two codebases to play nice with one another.

Jisoo Shin

uncategorized November 4, 2019

Announcing our new integration with Microsoft Teams

Collaboration and information discovery should be easy, no matter what software platform you’re using at the moment. Today we’re excited to announce a new integration that will allow you to access the power of Stack Overflow for Teams inside of Microsoft Teams! Internally we’ve taken to calling it Teams Teams, or just Teams². Whatever you…

Lori Colston Sr. Product Marketing Manager

newsletter November 1, 2019

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.

Ryan Donovan

code-for-a-living October 30, 2019

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.

Ryan Donovan

code-for-a-living October 29, 2019

My Most Embarrassing Mistakes as a Programmer (so far)

As a computer science professor, I encourage students to learn from mistakes, whether their own, mine, or famous examples. I feel it’s time to shine a light on my own mistakes to keep myself humble and in the hope that someone can learn from them.

Ellen Spertus

community October 28, 2019

Research update: Coding on the Weekends

The majority of developers we surveyed say they code for fun. At the same time, burnout is a big issue in the industry. We crunch the numbers on how Stack Overflow gets used during weekends.

Julia Silge Data Scientist (former)

code-for-a-living October 25, 2019

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.

Ryan Donovan