Question About Imake
While I do feel that I have learned a great deal in the past three years as a software engineer, there’s still much more for me to learn. One blog to that I read on a very regular basis is Coding Horror, which is comprised of the various software related articles written by Jeff Atwood.
Jeff has mentioned several times that he’s bothered by the lack of knowledge sharing between software engineers. So, in a recent venture with other developers that share is view, a new website has been born: Stackoverflow.com. This site is intended to be the “anti-Experts Exchange” as Jeff puts it. If you were to take a Blog, a Wiki, a Digg.com/Reddit.com, and a Forum and put them all together you have the basic idea of how Stackoverflow.com works.
The thought is that you ask a question pertaining to software development or computing, regardless of the technology involved. People then have the ability to answer that question. However, here’s the twist: Not only can they answer, they can vote on how good the question is, and also vote on the quality of the answers. So, if you were going to the site to find out how to do something, and someone has already asked the question, you can porous the answers given. Those answers can be sorted by votes, newest to oldest or vice versa. If you feel like you can provide an answer to a question, then your free to give your two cents on the matter. Additionally, each answer can have comments added, and both questions and answers can be set to a wiki-mode where others can improve upon the original.
StackOverflow.com
So, over all the whole concept is to provide a fast and easy way to share knowledge about all aspects of software development and computing. So far, personally, I would say that the creators of StackOverflow.com have come up with something incredibly unique and useful in it’s own right. I hope that it catches on, as I know I have already several things that I never knew. Anything that can help me find an answers to my questions is definately a good thing!