stackoverflow.com

7.May.2008
What is stackoverflow.com?

Nothing, yet.

But here is the concept:

Programmers seem to have stopped reading books. The market for books about programming themes are miniature compared to the number of working programmers.

Instead, they are fortunately gone programme, through trial-and-error. When not something out, they enter a query into Google.

And sometimes, the first result looks like it goes to the exact answer to the question, and nadšená, until you click on a link, and find that it is a pay site, and the answer is cloaked or hidden or pay for - the wall , And you can buy a membership.

And you will not even get an expert answer. You'll get lots of responses to typed other programmers, as you are. Some of the answers will be wrong, some will have the truth, some may be outdated, and it is hard to imagine that the cooperative spirit of the Internet is the best programmers to invent.

Jeff Atwood, and I decided to do something about it. We're starting to build programming Q & A site that is free of charge. Free ask questions freely to answer questions, free to read, free of charge to the index, built for ordinary old HTML, no false rot13 text on the cover page, but scammy google-masking tactics, not the sellers, not JavaScript windows, before dropping down to answer Query to $ 12.95 go away. You can register if you want to collect karma and win valuable taste that will appear next to your name, but otherwise it's just free.

When I was in the building of a new product, my policy has always been to remain silent about until I have something on the ship. But this is really the product. This is a free community site for new programmers around the world and we need your help to propose to the programme, and it is necessary to build it. We want to hear your proposals, to hear your ideas and we are now we will build it right before your eyes. It was vaporware notice.

Each week, Jeff and I talk on the phone (he is in California, I was in New York), and we'll record those phone calls and throw them on the Web, you listen in on a call is podcast. We have a lot of problems to keep the issue so that podcast may be interesting for you, even if you do not want to hear about stackoverflow.com. The first episode is up now. Finally, I'll to the innovative "RSS" technology, and you'll be able to actually subscribe and receive new episodes delivered automatically to your ears. All in good time.

Jeff declaration

PS I am still CEO of Fog Creek full-time. StackOverflow.com is a joint venture between Clear Creek and Jeff Atwood. He is a full-time CEO, which means that it is calling shots. I'm sort of adviser to this.