Just over a year ago, we were excited to report on a new website for programmers. StackOverflow was the brainchild of coders/rockstars Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood, and it was a social Q&A; channel that promised to give programmers solutions for even the most obscure bugs.
Apparently, that approach to developer support was a solid one. These days, the site gets around 1.8 million unique visitors a month and has served as a prototype for white-label Q&A; sites for companies, too. The site's latest merit badge is an official nod from the Android team, which has announced StackOverflow as the official home of Android developer Q&A; support.
Android rep Roman Nurik wrote in a blog post, "We're working with StackOverflow to improve developer support, especially for developers new to Android. In essence, the Android tag on Stack Overflow will become an official Android app development Q&A; medium."
Nurik further noted that StackOverflow's format was particularly helpful for beginners new to the Android platform. However, he did state, "It's also important to point out that we don't plan to change the android-developers group, so intermediate and expert users should still feel free to post there."
The StackOverflow "Digg for developers" model has worked well for all kinds of programmers, clearly. The models has also been successfully applied to such diverse topics as mathematics, parenting and even World of Warcraft - all built on the company's StackExchange white-label platform.
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I've never seen this particular development site, should be helpful if it lives up to the name cos I like to do my own bita coding here and there even though I can't do it all. Usually I try webdeveloper.com just to note their presence here too. Thanks.
So Google is going to run an ASP.NET MVC website? Because that's what StackOverflow is based on.
@Jamie Google isn't running any site, they're just endorsing SO as the preferred home of all Android development questions.
Heh - Google running .Net. That's a good one! :-)
StackOverflow has proven to be a great platform over the past year. If you are looking for an alternative to StackExchange however check out Coordino.
It's awesome to see Google utilizing a service rather that just buying it out first. ;)
One correction. The article states that "the site gets well over half a million unique visitors a month"... actually, this is a bit of an understatement. According to Quantcast which is based on actual data (not estimates), the StackOverflow network gets 5.6 million unique monthly visitors.
Source: http://www.quantcast.com/p-c1rF4kxgLUzNc
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December 21, 2009 9:57 AM
Android has come such a long way in such a short time, it's quite amazing.
I wonder if the Chrome OS will have such success.
Don't forget about another great StackExchange site: http://startups.com
yeah SO is a good engine, I'm using it for Style Guidance
StackOverflow is great and Q&A; continues to become one of the most commonly used and best understood means of communication.
If you have expert contributors in your community I think you'll find that YouSaidIt might meet your needs even better. http://www.yousaidit.com.