2. Who? Why?
● Geek
● Blogger ( http://hype-free.blogspot.com/)
● “IT stuff doer”
● Guitar hero player :-)
● //////////////////
For money
● Because it is a great tool!
3. What is it?
● Founded by
Jeff Atwood (http://www.codinghorror.com/)
and Joel Spolsky (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/)
● Q&A site for programming questions
● The best answer in the shortest amount of time
● /////////////////////////////
experts-exchange
– No obnoxious advertising
– Doesn't try to trick you
– You own the data (multiple ways to get at it,
including a full dump – like Wikipedia)
– You can access is anonymously!
7. “Sister” sites
● http://serverfault.com/
● http://superuser.com/ (soon to be launched)
8. Further resources
● The official Stack Overflow FAQ:
http://stackoverflow.com/faq
● The community Stack Overflow FAQ:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/s
ofaq
● The Stack Overflow blog (including podcast):
http://blog.stackoverflow.com/