StackOverflow Rocks !!!

Few blog posts ago, I mentioned how I’ve been following the StackOverflow podcast and as I admire Joel and Jeff, now I’ve become a big fan of StackOverflow - the product of Jeff and team’s hardwork over the last few months. It’s one of the first success stories of 2008 per me, I’ve a lot to learn - how this concept was envisioned, prototyped and developed. StackOverflow uses ASP.Net MVC and Linq to Sql, I’ve learnt.

Wait a minute, what is StackOverflow you ask, well.. as per the ‘About’ section of the site,

Stack Overflow is a programming Q & A site that’s free. Free to ask questions, free to answer questions, free to read, free to index, built with plain old HTML, no fake rot13 text on the home page, no scammy google-cloaking tactics, no salespeople, no JavaScript windows dropping down in front of the answer asking for $12.95 to go away. You can register if you want to collect karma and win valuable flair that will appear next to your name, but otherwise, it’s just free. And fast. Very, very fast.

Stack Overflow is by programmers, for programmers, with the ultimate intent of collectively increasing the sum total of programming knowledge in the world. No matter what programming language you use, or what operating system you call home — better programming is our goal. With the help of software engineers like you, we can fill the world with good answers to every imaginable programming question.

Well, the ones that have answers, anyway.

We plan to make Stack Overflow as frictionless and painless to use as we possibly can. We believe finding the right answer to your programming questions should be as easy as falling into the pit of success.

And maybe even a little fun.

Currently it’s in a private beta and will soon by next month will be made public. I think this is going to be huge for the developer community. It’s so simple, fast, elegant and more importantly very useful, lots of learning to do. It’s very addictive as well.

It’s a private beta right now; you can sign up and on a FIFO basis, you’ll get an invite.

Read Scoble’s impression on StackOverflow