Stack Overflow - 200k rep reached!

I've been a bit quiet on Stack Overflow lately because work has been keeping me very busy, but I have now managed to reach 200,000 reputation!

For me, Stack Overflow has not simply been a quest for reputation, but more about learning and helping fellow programmers in need.

Right, time to celebrate!

Stack Overflow - 150,000 rep reached!

I've been a bit quiet on Stack Overflow lately, but just managed to reach 150,000 reputation!

For me, Stack Overflow has not simply been a quest for reputation, but more about learning and helping fellow programmers in need.

Stack Overflow - swag!

After waiting for what has seemed like forever, my Stack Overflow box of swag has finally arrived! The nice people at Stack Overflow sent me this stuff to congratulate me for reaching 100,000 reputation!

The box contained a:

• t-shirt,
• mug,
• moleskin notebook, embossed with the Stack Overflow logo, and
• stickers of various Stack Exchange sites that I participate in.

Here are a couple of pictures:

Reverse of mug:

Stack Overflow - 100k rep reached!

Yes, I finally did it. After 6 years, I have reached 100,000 reputation on Stack Overflow!

I received a nice, unexpected email from Robert Cartaino, Community Manager at Stack Exchange Inc., titled "Stack Overflow - You're killing it.":

It's not often we get to reach out and thank someone individually for their contribution to a site, but we wanted to take this time to congratulate you for reaching 100,000 reputation on Stack Overflow! To be in the top, top rankings among the millions of Stack Exchange users puts you in some really elite company.

Hitting a milestone like this is a great opportunity to take a step back and remember what the points are really about. It's not just the tens of thousands of community members who took the time to up-vote your posts; it's the uncounted millions of people - yes millions - who have also learned (and will continue to learn) from what you've given so selflessly.

Words cannot express how much we appreciate what you've done for this community. You've worked hard, and you deserve a lot of credit for what you accomplished. We hope you've found the experience rewarding in your own way. But getting a big ole box of cool stuff from our sites is also a fun way to mark the occasion, so we put together a collection of swag for you. It's just a small token of our appreciation for everything you've done.

Click here to tell us where to send stuff.

Once again, thank you for generously contributing your time, your passion, and your knowledge. You've made the Internet better for all of us.

And for that, you should feel incredibly proud.

Robert Cartaino
Community Manager
Stack Exchange Inc.

I'm looking forward to my box of swag! :)

The following table shows some stats about my long, but rewarding, journey on Stack Overflow:

	0-10k	10-20k	20-30k	30-40k	40-50k	50-60k	60-70k	70-80k	80-90k	90-100k	Total
Date achieved	01/2011	05/2011	01/2012	09/2012	02/2013	07/2013	12/2013	05/2014	10/2014	04/2015
Questions answered	546	376	253	139	192	145	66	58	32	0	1807
Questions asked	46	1	6	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	56
Tags covered	609	202	83	10	42	14	11	14	4	0	989
Badges (gold, silver, bronze)	35 (2, 10, 23)	14 (0, 4, 10)	33 (2, 8, 23)	59 (3, 20, 36)	49 (0, 19, 30)	65 (2, 26, 37)	60 (5, 22, 33)	50 (2, 24, 24)	50 (7, 21, 25)	42 (3, 20, 19)	460 (26, 174, 260)

As the table above shows, I haven't been able to answer any questions over the last few months. This is because work has been keeping me so busy!

For me, Stack Overflow has not simply been a quest for reputation, but more about learning and helping fellow programmers in need.

Right, time to celebrate!

stackoverflow - 90k rep

Five months after crossing the 80k milestone, I have now reached a reputation of 90k on stackoverflow!

The following table shows some stats about my journey so far:

	0-10k	10-20k	20-30k	30-40k	40-50k	50-60k	60-70k	70-80k	80-90k	Total
Date achieved	01/2011	05/2011	01/2012	09/2012	02/2013	07/2013	12/2013	05/2014	10/2014
Questions answered	546	376	253	139	192	145	66	58	32	1807
Questions asked	46	1	6	0	1	0	0	0	2	56
Tags covered	609	202	83	10	42	14	11	14	4	989
Badges (gold, silver, bronze)	35 (2, 10, 23)	14 (0, 4, 10)	33 (2, 8, 23)	59 (3, 20, 36)	49 (0, 19, 30)	65 (2, 26, 37)	60 (5, 22, 33)	50 (2, 24, 24)	50 (7, 21, 25)	418 (23, 154, 241)

I'm a bit disappointed that I only managed to answer 32 questions over the last 5 months. It's because work has been keeping me so busy! For me, stackoverflow has not simply been a quest for reputation, but more about learning new technologies and picking up advice from other people on the site. I like to take on challenging questions, rather than the easy ones, because it pushes me to do research into areas I have never looked at before, and I learn so much during the process.

Next stop, 100k!

stackoverflow - 80k rep

Five months after crossing the 70k milestone, I have now reached a reputation of 80k on stackoverflow!

The following table shows some stats about my journey so far:

	0-10k	10-20k	20-30k	30-40k	40-50k	50-60k	60-70k	70-80k	Total
Date achieved	01/2011	05/2011	01/2012	09/2012	02/2013	07/2013	12/2013	05/2014
Questions answered	546	376	253	139	192	145	66	58	1775
Questions asked	46	1	6	0	1	0	0	0	54
Tags covered	609	202	83	10	42	14	11	14	985
Badges (gold, silver, bronze)	35 (2, 10, 23)	14 (0, 4, 10)	33 (2, 8, 23)	59 (3, 20, 36)	49 (0, 19, 30)	65 (2, 26, 37)	60 (5, 22, 33)	50 (2, 24, 24)	365 (16, 133, 216)

I have been very busy over the last few months and haven't had much time to go on stackoverflow. As you can see, I only answered 58 questions over the last 5 months, but my previous answers have helped keep my reputation ticking along nicely. For me, stackoverflow has not simply been a quest for reputation, but more about learning new technologies and picking up advice from other people on the site. I like to take on challenging questions, rather than the easy ones, because it pushes me to do research into areas I have never looked at before, and I learn so much during the process.

90k, here I come!

stackoverflow - 70k rep

Five months after crossing the 60k milestone, I have now reached a reputation of 70k on stackoverflow!

The following table shows some stats about my journey so far:

	0-10k	10-20k	20-30k	30-40k	40-50k	50-60k	60-70k	Total
Date achieved	01/2011	05/2011	01/2012	09/2012	02/2013	07/2013	12/2013
Questions answered	546	376	253	139	192	145	66	1717
Questions asked	46	1	6	0	1	0	0	54
Tags covered	609	202	83	10	42	14	11	971
Badges (gold, silver, bronze)	35 (2, 10, 23)	14 (0, 4, 10)	33 (2, 8, 23)	59 (3, 20, 36)	49 (0, 19, 30)	65 (2, 26, 37)	60 (5, 22, 33)	315 (14, 109, 192)

I have been very busy over the last few months and haven't had much time to go on stackoverflow. As you can see, I only answered 66 questions over the last 5 months, but my previous answers have helped keep my reputation ticking along nicely. For me, stackoverflow has not simply been a quest for reputation, but more about learning new technologies and picking up advice from other people on the site. I like to take on challenging questions, rather than the easy ones, because it pushes me to do research into areas I have never looked at before, and I learn so much during the process.

Next stop, 80k!

stackoverflow - 60k rep

Last week I crossed the 50k milestone and have now reached a reputation of 60k on stackoverflow!

The following table shows some stats about my journey so far:

	0-10k	10-20k	20-30k	30-40k	40-50k	50-60k	Total
Date achieved	01/2011	05/2011	01/2012	09/2012	02/2013	07/2013
Questions answered	546	376	253	139	192	145	1651
Questions asked	46	1	6	0	1	0	54
Tags covered	609	202	83	10	42	14	960
Badges (gold, silver, bronze)	35 (2, 10, 23)	14 (0, 4, 10)	33 (2, 8, 23)	59 (3, 20, 36)	49 (0, 19, 30)	65 (2, 26, 37)	255 (9, 87, 159)

I have really enjoyed being a member of stackoverflow. For me, it has not simply been a quest for reputation, but more about learning new technologies and picking up advice from other people on the site. I like to take on challenging questions, rather than the easy ones, because it pushes me to do research into areas I have never looked at before, and I learn so much during the process.

70k, here I come!

stackoverflow - 50k rep

Five months after crossing the 40k milestone, I've now reached a reputation of 50k on stackoverflow!

The following table shows some stats about my journey so far:

	0-10k	10-20k	20-30k	30-40k	40-50k	Total
Date achieved	01/2011	05/2011	01/2012	09/2012	02/2013
Questions answered	546	376	253	139	192	1506
Questions asked	46	1	6	0	1	54
Tags covered	609	202	83	10	42	946
Badges (gold, silver, bronze)	35 (2, 10, 23)	14 (0, 4, 10)	33 (2, 8, 23)	59 (3, 20, 36)	49 (0, 19, 30)	190 (7, 61, 122)

As I mentioned before, I have really enjoyed being a member of stackoverflow. For me, it has not simply been a quest for reputation, but more about learning new technologies and picking up advice from other people on the site. I like to take on challenging questions, rather than the easy ones, because it pushes me to do research into areas I have never looked at before, and I learn so much during the process.

Next stop, 60k!

stackoverflow - 40k rep

Eight months after crossing the 30k milestone, I've now achieved a reputation of 40k on stackoverflow! The following table shows some interesting stats about my journey so far:

	0-10k	10-20k	20-30k	30-40k	Total
Date achieved	01/2011	05/2011	01/2012	09/2012
Questions answered	546	376	253	139	1314
Questions asked	46	1	6	0	53
Tags covered	609	202	83	10	904
Badges (gold, silver, bronze)	35 (2, 10, 23)	14 (0, 4, 10)	33 (2, 8, 23)	59 (3, 20, 36)	141 (7, 42, 92)

As I mentioned before, I have really enjoyed being a member of stackoverflow. For me, it has not simply been a quest for reputation, but more about learning new technologies and picking up advice from other experts on the site. I like to take on challenging questions, rather than the easy ones, because it pushes me to do research into areas I have never looked at before, and I learn so much during the process.

You can probably tell by the number of questions answered, that I haven't spent much time on stackoverflow recently. I've been busy at work and have also been participating in other stackexchange sites like superuser, serverfault and Unix and Linux.

50k, here I come!

stackoverflow - 30k rep

Seven months after crossing the 20k milestone, I've now achieved a reputation of 30k on stackoverflow! The following table shows some interesting stats about my journey so far:

	0-10k	10-20k	20-30k	Total
Date achieved	01/2011	05/2011	01/2012
Questions answered	546	376	253	1175
Questions asked	46	1	6	53
Tags covered	609	202	83	894
Badges (gold, silver, bronze)	35 (2, 10, 23)	14 (0, 4, 10)	33 (2, 8, 23)	82 (4, 22, 56)

As I mentioned before, I have really enjoyed being a member of stackoverflow. For me, it has not simply been a quest for a high reputation, but more about learning new technologies and picking up advice from other experts on the site. I like to take on challenging questions, rather than the easy ones, because it pushes me to do research into areas I have never looked at before, and I learn so much during the process.

I have to admit, I haven't spent much time on stackoverflow recently. I've been busy at work and also took up three Stanford online courses which I completed at the end of last year.

Now let's see how fast I can make it to 40k!

stackoverflow - 20k rep

Four months after crossing the 10k milestone, I've now achieved a reputation of 20k on stackoverflow! The following table shows some interesting stats on my time at SO:

Title	0-10k	10-20k	Total
Questions answered	546	376	922
Questions asked	46	1	47
Tags covered	609	202	811
Badges	35 (2 gold, 10 silver, 23 bronze)	14 (0 gold, 4 silver, 10 bronze)	49 (2 gold, 14 silver, 33 bronze)

As I mentioned in my previous post, I have really enjoyed being a member of stackoverflow. For me, it has not simply been a quest for a high reputation, but more about learning new technologies and picking up advice from other experts on the site. I like to take on challenging questions, rather than the easy ones, because it pushes me to do research into areas I have never looked at before, and I learn so much during the process.

It's hard juggling work and stackoverflow. The only times I get to use it are during the weekends and in the evenings after work. Most of the questions have already been answered by then! However, I still like browsing the questions and checking out the answers.

30k, here I come!

stackoverflow - 10k rep

I've finally crossed the 10k reputation milestone on stackoverflow! I thought I'd take this opportunity to reflect back on my time as a member of this famous programming Q & A site.

Even though I was one of the first people to join stackoverflow when the beta version came out two years ago, I did not become an active participant until much more recently. I have found this site to be a great way of helping people with programming difficulties and also as a great learning resource. During my time here, I have:

• answered 546 questions
• asked 46 questions
• participated across 609 tags (mainly java, unix, bash and xml)
• received 35 badges - 2 gold, 10 silver and 23 bronze

I have really enjoyed being a member of stackoverflow. For me, it has not simply been a quest for a high reputation, but more about learning new technologies and picking up advice from other experts on the site. I like to take on challenging questions, rather than the easy ones, because it pushes me to do research into areas I have never looked at before, and I learn so much during the process. As a result, I have dabbled with certain libraries that I haven't used before, such as Apache Lucene.

It's hard juggling work and stackoverflow. The only times I get to use it are during the weekends and in the evenings after work. Most of the questions have already been answered by then! However, I still like browsing the questions and checking out the answers.

Anyway, I need to get back to it now. Let's see how fast I can make it to 20k!