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Spolsky's Software Q-and-A Site
guzzibill writes "Joel Spolsky has announced the beta release of Stack Overflow, intended to be a high-quality source of answers to software questions. Post a software question and watch the answers flow in. Popularity voting is very much woven into the site, where both questions and answers can be edited for clarity and voted up or down for correctness. Correctly posed questions and insightful answers float to the top. This site has reached critical mass." From Joel's description, he was envisioning a source of technical Q&A about programming. So far, many of the questions are broader and less technical, such as advice on the best book about software development. It will be interesting to see where the community that's forming takes it.
This site is a joint venture with Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror.
How is this any different then daniweb.com?
...or just scroll all the way down, as many people have already mentioned above
"Don't hate the media, become the media." -Jello Biafra
1. Use the "site:" operator when Googling your question:
mfc how draw transparent bitmap site:experts-exchange.com
2. View desired search result.
3. SCROLL DOWN THE PAGE past all the bogus "All comments and solutions are available to Premium Service Members only" crap, to the very bottom of the page.
Note: this only works with Google (or possibly only with any search engine). Accessing their "answers" pages directly from their own site doesn't work. (For that you DO have to pay.)
But since most(?) people use a search engine to find their answers, knowing about the above provides a whole new source of high quality technical information.
"Fish" (David B. Trout)
You just have to scroll all they way down past all the crap to see the answers. The top of the page just appears to hide all the comets to get you to pay up....