Stack Overflow

It has been more than a week since the last post. I have been out of town since Wednesday, so that is my excuse. On Thursday, I took a trip into NY City to visit my friend Jeff Szczepanski at Stack Overflow or as it is now called Stack Exchange. For those of you in the software field, I am sure you have heard of Stack Overflow as they are pretty much the authoritative Q&A site for professional programmers. This place was awesome. Everyone has two monitors, one 30in and one smaller one. I don't know the size of the smaller one. It doesn't matter because the 30in monitor makes all monitors look small. I want one really bad now. Everyone also has an Aeron chair. Hello super comfortable ergonomic master piece that I never want to get up from so I work late just to sit in my chair awesomeness. Again, I am super jealous. Care for snack...don't worry there is a hefty and unlimited supply of goodies. Perhaps some ping pong? No problem, there is ping pong table in the common area. All of these "benefits" are pretty sweet, but the one that really pushed it over the wall for me was the height adjustable desks in every office. I would kill for one of these. I sit all day. Sometimes, I just want to stand and work. Pure awesomeness. After surveying the environment, I partook in the daily catered lunch. That is right, DAILY catered lunch. The cafeteria is shared with the employees of Fog Creek, Joel Spolsky's other brain child, which is located just one floor down.

I knew it would be awesome since I have been an avid reader of Joel's blog and had read about the environment at Fog Creek. Still it was amazing to see it in person. Plus, I got free shirt.