Stack Overflow
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Two of my favorite modern software development bloggers and role models — Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror and Joel Spolsky of Joel on Software — are joining forces to create a new developer community site called stackoverflow (not sure if that’s the correct casing, but that’s how it is on the site). Because, you know, there just aren’t enough “community” startups on the Interwebs. But seriously: I listened to their inaugural podcast which described their vision for the site and I look forward to seeing what they come up with. I agree completely with their premises: Basically that, a) Developers look to Google for answers to programming problems long before turning to a book, and b) Most of the programming advice you find on current developer forums is anywhere from really bad to dead wrong.
Their podcast needs a little work, though. You had to listen to nearly an hour of rambling to distill out the above points. Joel is pretty clearly one of those bulldozers who likes to talk over people, which I’m sure serves him well in his business, but it’s not very entertaining in the context of a podcast, especially when the other guy has just as many interesting points to make if he were just allowed to get in a word edgewise. Also, one hour of podcasting? How about 15 minutes. Just cut out all of Joel’s rambling and stick to the point.
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