Joel and Jeff talked about launching an "IT Pro" version of Stack Overflow during the most recent podcast. This raises a lot of interesting questions (besides "what should it be called?") - scripting falls right in that space between systems administration and "real" programming, so which community should we scripters/sysadmins hypothet...
Joel Spolsky mentioned "surfacing" on the SO podcast. What's it mean? (perhaps something like "exposing" (as in "exposing an interface)? ...
In Podcast 58 (about 20 minutes in), Jeff complains about the problems of HTML.Encode() and Joel talks about using the type system to have ordinary strings and HTMLStrings: A brief political rant about the evil of view engines that fail to HTML encode by default. The problem with this design choice is that it is not “safe by...
Hi, I've run into codility.com new cool service after listening to one of the recent stackoverflow.com podcasts. In short, it presents the user with a programming riddle to solve, within a given time frame. The user writes code in an online editor, and has the ability to run the program and view the standard output. After final submis...
In one of the earliest podcasts I remember Jeff Attwood in the StackOverflow Podcast mentioning a quote about how x % (where x was something like 70 or more) of all good code was error handling. Does anyone know the exact quote? I can't seem to find it any more... ...