I've been following with interest the development of StackOverflow.com, the brainchild of Jeff Attwood and Joel Spolsky, for a while now.
It the time of writing, it's still in beta. Hopefully, barring any further hiccups, it'll be released to the great unwashed on Monday 15th September, 2008.
StackOverflow is a Q&A site for developers. So what? Well, it's really slick. There's loads of activity, plenty of good questions and plenty more good answers. The way the site's been designed, it actively promotes high-quality content and discourages junk. I like it a lot.
If you can't wait until Monday (and I couldn't), there's information on how to access the beta on the blog.stackoverflow.com site.
Posted
Sep 11 2008, 04:26 PM
by
Steve Morgan
A Note for Comment Spammers
Now, I realise that those of you who use blog comments such as these to
spread your worthless spam are not the cleverest people on the face of the planet.
So, I thought I'd make it clear that you're wasting your time posting your pointless
garbage here. Quite simply, it will never be published. Thankfully, unlike yourselves,
I'm blessed with an inherent ability to identify irrelevant content and it's every bit
as easy for me to toss your contribution into the virtual waste bin as it is to publish it.
So, guess what? Unless your comments are relevant (and I mean, really relevant, not
some thinly veiled attempt to get me to link to your site) they're never going to appear
on here. So, they're never go to appear in a search engine, never going to boost your
customer's Google page rank and never going to achieve anything in terms of Search
Engine Optimisation. Please, practice being a parasite elsewhere. Oh, and I'm confident
that my genuine readers are perfectly well endowed and enjoy a full and healthy lifestyle
without help from you. Thanks for reading.