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Stack Overflow and personal emails

This post is partly meant to be a general announcement, and partly meant to be something I can point people at in the future (rather than writing a short version of this on each email). These days, I get at least a few emails practically every day along the lines of: "I saw you on Stack Overflow...

Posted to Jon Skeet: Coding Blog by skeet on Wed, Aug 22 2012
Filed under: Filed under: General, Stack Overflow
Diagnosing weird problems - a Stack Overflow case study

Earlier, I came across this Stack Overflow question . I solved it, tweeted it, but then thought it would serve as a useful case study into the mental processes I go through when trying to solve a problem - whether that's on Stack Overflow, at work, or at home. It's definitely worth reading the...

Posted to Jon Skeet: Coding Blog by skeet on Fri, Mar 16 2012
Filed under: Filed under: General, Stack Overflow
Writing the perfect question

Update: now that I've actually posted this, I've added a tinyurl to it for easy reference: http://tinyurl.com/so-hints . Nice and easy to remember for comments :) A while ago, I wrote a blog entry on how to answer questions helpfully on sites like Stack Overflow . Recently I saw a meta question...

Posted to Jon Skeet: Coding Blog by skeet on Sun, Aug 29 2010
Filed under: Filed under: General, Stack Overflow
Just how spiky is your traffic?

No, this isn't the post about dynamic languages I promise. That will come soon. This is just a quick interlude. This afternoon, while answering a question on Stack Overflow 1 about the difference between using an array and a Dictionary<string, string> (where each string was actually the string...

Posted to Jon Skeet: Coding Blog by skeet on Mon, Nov 16 2009
Filed under: Filed under: C#, General, Stack Overflow
Recent activities

It's been a little while since I've blogged, and quite a lot has been going on. In fact, there are a few things I'd have blogged about already if it weren't for "things" getting in the way. Rather than writing a whole series of very short blog posts, I thought I'd wrap them...

Posted to Jon Skeet: Coding Blog by skeet on Thu, Sep 3 2009
Filed under: Filed under: C#, General, Books, C# 4, Parallelisation, Speaking engagements, Stack Overflow
Answering technical questions helpfully

I'm unsure of whether this should be a blog post or an article , so I'll probably make it both. I've probably written most of it before in Stack Overflow answers, but as I couldn't find anything when I was looking earlier (to answer a question about Stack Overflow answers ) I figured...

Posted to Jon Skeet: Coding Blog by skeet on Tue, Feb 17 2009
Filed under: Filed under: General, Stack Overflow
Benchmarking: designing an API with unusual goals

In a couple of recent posts I've written about a benchmarking framework and the results it produced for using for vs foreach in loops . I'm pleased with what I've done so far, but I don't think I've gone far enough yet. In particular, while it's good at testing multiple algorithms...

Posted to Jon Skeet: Coding Blog by skeet on Mon, Feb 2 2009
Filed under: Filed under: C#, General, Stack Overflow, Benchmarking
Programming is hard

One of the answers to my "controversial opinions" question on Stack Overflow claims that " programming is so easy a five year old can do it. " I'm sure there are some aspects of programming which a five year old can do. Other parts are apparently very hard though. Today I came...

Posted to Jon Skeet: Coding Blog by skeet on Thu, Jan 29 2009
Filed under: Filed under: General, Stack Overflow
Quick rant: why isn't there an Exception(string, params object[]) constructor?

This Stack Overflow question has reminded me of something I often wish existed in common exception constructors - an overload taking a format string and values. For instance, it would be really nice to be able to write: throw new IOException( "Expected to read {0} bytes but only {1} were available"...

Posted to Jon Skeet: Coding Blog by skeet on Fri, Jan 23 2009
Filed under: Filed under: C#, General, Wacky Ideas, Stack Overflow
Stack Overflow reputation and being a micro-celebrity

I've considered writing a bit about this before, but not done so for fear of looking like a jerk. I still think I may well end up looking like a jerk, but this is all stuff I'm interested in and I'll enjoy writing about it, so on we go. Much of this is based on experiences at and around Stack...

Posted to Jon Skeet: Coding Blog by skeet on Thu, Jan 15 2009
Filed under: Filed under: General, Stack Overflow
New addiction: Stack Overflow

This may be old news to many readers, but there's a relatively new development Q&A site called Stack Overflow . I'm not generally a fan of web forums as opposed to newsgroups, but Stack Overflow just works . In particular, the post/answer editor is better than anything similar that I've...

Posted to Jon Skeet: Coding Blog by skeet on Sun, Sep 28 2008
Filed under: Filed under: General, Stack Overflow

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