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community July 18, 2019

What a very bad day at work taught me about building Stack Overflow’s community

Hi, my name is Sara Chipps, first time Stack blogger, long time Stacker (I’ve always wanted to say that!). I’m the new Director of Public Q&A at Stack Overflow. I’ve been at Stack for a year now, and I’d like to share with you one of my worst days at work, and what it taught…

Sara Chipps Director of Product, Community - Former

code-for-a-living July 16, 2019

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

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

Alessio Civitillo and Aaron Shekey

code-for-a-living July 2, 2019

Sing Me A Song of Stack Overflow: A Musical Tail Call Optimization

When Anjana Vakil and Natalia Margolis applied to speak at !!Con (read Bang Bang Con) this year, they wanted to take the call for ‘non-traditional’ talks to heart while still sharing useful insights. They decided to tackle the following question: why recursion poses a problem for the finite-memory call stack. That could be quite a…

Ben Popper Director of Content

code-for-a-living June 12, 2019

Stack Overflow and Pursuit: Nurturing A New Generation of Developers

Stack Overflow is excited to partner with Pursuit, a social impact organization working to create a more diverse and inclusive tech industry through coding education and career mentorship.

Ben Popper Director of Content

code-for-a-living May 13, 2019

How Expensify Engineers Save Hours Each Week With Stack Overflow For Teams

Engineers from Expensify talk about how they are using Stack Overflow for Teams to improve collaboration and how it saves them hours of wasted time each week.

Ben Popper Director of Content

community January 10, 2018

Farewell, Winter Bash 2017!

Last week, we bid farewell to Winter Bash and packed our Greatest Hats back into their boxes. It’s always a little sad to see the hats get put away for the year, but I always like to soothe my sorrows by reminiscing. (It’s only been a week and I’m nostalgic already.) These hat shots came…

Abby T. Mars Director of Community Management - Former

code-for-a-living November 16, 2017

How Developers Can Build SQL Skills

First introduced in the early 1970s, SQL (Standardized Query Language) was initially used by IBM to maintain its database management system. Fast forward to today, and SQL is the standard language for most relational database management systems. It’s the fundamental programming language used to update, retrieve, and work with data, which is why virtually everybody…

David Haney Engineering Manager

code-for-a-living May 8, 2017

Live + Work Anywhere With These Companies Hiring Now

Remote, relocation, visa sponsorship: these are some of the most highly coveted perks among developers today, and we’re proud to highlight the companies offering them and the jobs they’re hiring for right now. Smart businesses know that top development talent can come from anywhere. Rather than limiting themselves to their own local areas, these companies…

Alyssa Mazzina Marketing (Former)

code-for-a-living April 11, 2017

Companies Hiring Python Developers Right Now

In our 2017 Developer Survey, Python overtook PHP in our ranking of popular technologies for the first time in five years, with 32% of respondents reporting they use Python in their work. It was also among the top 10 “Most Loved” technologies and it was the #1 technology developers reported wanting to use in their…

Alyssa Mazzina Marketing (Former)

uncategorized November 18, 2011

Give a damn. Give lots of damns. More than anyone.

This is probably my favorite piece of advice from Alexis Ohanian, best known as the co-founder of Reddit. I attended a talk he gave a few days ago in NYC called “Making Something People Love,” which was advice for start-ups (founders, and by extension, their small, versatile staffs) based on Alexis’s experiences at Reddit, Hipmunk,…

Laura Dobrzynski-Gessner

uncategorized November 11, 2011

Gotta have a hook

(Alright, not a fishing hook or a Captain hook, but a “hook.” You’ll see what I mean.) One of our biggest outreach strategies has been to sponsor bloggers in the hopes of attracting some of their readers to Stack Exchange. The problem with that tactic is that most people will care way more about the…

Lauren Gundrum Community and Growth (Former)