Based on what I can gather from the founders, Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky , stackoverflow.com is going to be a programming community, functioning primarily as a question and answer site. The solutions will be sifted organically by the members (through some kind of voting mechanism?), until the correct answers float to the top. The idea is for correct stuff to be more prominent than incorrect (or out of date) stuff.
Why should prominence matter? So that Google and other search engines rank the correct stuff better. Which makes the correct stuff more prominent.
I just listened to their first podcast, and the driving force behind this was how programmers are ditching the paperbacks and hardcovers for the Internet searches and forums. I haven’t thought much of this, since my department is a little, uh, tight around budgets. Training courses and reference books cost money, so I turned to the Internet to help me solve problems.
My problem then became “...
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Post Date: 2008-03-05 03:00:52
I was going through some web site logs, and found an interesting combination of search terms. This site was listed in search results for “computer virus”, “dissertation” and “thesis”. I racked my brain for the reason why. Then I remembered I wrote something about the computer virus behaviour thesis for my final year project in university.
I rummaged through my collection of important CDs, and found it. With a small slip of paper that reads “Vincent&...
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Post Date: 2008-03-07 03:00:20
I was young and naive then. Having learned this fascinating subject known as C programming, I read anything I could about programming. As a game enthusiast, I pored over articles and tricks on getting the computer to perform neat and cool stuff.
Things like
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Post Date: 2008-03-10 04:00:49
I’ve been using Entrecard for a while now. While it’s true I get lower quality traffic in general (chain droppers), there is one benefit I found. With search engine traffic, I have no idea who’s visiting. With Entrecard, I do.
Usually, I check the drop box (as it’s called) about once every 2 days. I get like 50+ or so drops. I check out the sites (based on those drops), and if it’s interesting, I drop my card too. And if it’s reall...
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Post Date: 2008-03-10 03:30:19
This is wonderful! It seems to be the standard to show before and after pictures, so here’s the “before” look:
This is the new look:
Josh Sharp is my theme designer. I got acquainted with him through Entrecard . And the theme looks gorgeous! Wait, let me go look at it again… *wee, clap hands like a little child*
The old theme was adapted from the TicTac theme from the Blogger platform. It was nice with a moderate techy feeling. It was also a bit restrict...
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