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company May 14, 2008

Podcast #5

This is the fifth episode of the StackOverflow podcast, wherein Joel and I discuss the following: Trivia clarifications from podcast #3: Leonardo DiCaprio on Growing Pains, and how the Fonz actually Jumped the Shark in Happy Days Thanks for all the offers to pitch in and help! The StackOverflow private beta should be in about…
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company May 7, 2008

Podcast #4

This is the fourth episode of the StackOverflow podcast, wherein Joel and I discuss the following: Why we think stackoverflow.com isn’t “reinventing the wheel”, or at least, reinventing it in a useful way. Failure, however, is always an option. We will be using ASP.NET MVC to build stackoverflow, as covered in my recent blog post.…
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company May 5, 2008

Now Licensed Under Creative Commons

The Creative Commons site defines four main clauses for licensing of content you’ve created and placed on the web: Attribution You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your copyrighted work — and derivative works based upon it — but only if they give credit the way you request. Noncommercial You let others copy, distribute,…
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company April 30, 2008

Logo Design Contest Winner

Our logo design contest has ended. The winning design is from Peter Borlace, aka pb_design. There were a whopping 253 entries in the contest; thanks to everyone who participated for your hard work. As a little bonus, Leon Bambrick has graciously offered up free licenses to his excellent TimeSnapper software to the following runners-up: Umasankar…
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company April 30, 2008

Podcast #3

This is the third episode of the StackOverflow podcast, wherein Joel and I discuss the following: A brief, but awesome, reference to Donald Gibb in Revenge of the Nerds. We are now using Skype and Pamela to record our podcast for higher quality. Joel’s original 2002 Recommended Programmer Reading list and Jeff’s Top 5 Programming…
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company April 28, 2008

Our Dedicated Server

I’ve been hosting codinghorror.com at CrystalTech on a dedicated server for about six months now, and I’ve been quite happy with the performance and availability. Any downtime has been completely my fault, and they’ve been responsive the few times I’ve requested support. So when we needed a beefy dedicated server to host stackoverflow.com, I naturally…
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company April 24, 2008

Logo Design Contest

The name stackoverflow.com was partially chosen by the community, with stackoverflow.com winning by a virtual landslide. But websites can’t survive on name alone. We also need a logo. A logo with verve. With zazz. With moxie! A dynamic logo that reflects the potential of this mythical programming community site we’re building. Rather than try out…
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company April 23, 2008

Podcast #2

This is the second episode of the StackOverflow podcast, wherein Joel and I discuss the following: Why have a podcast at all? What’s the point? A discussion about some the podcasts Joel listens to: John Dvorak, Adam Curry. StackOverflow podcast transcription wiki courtesy of FogBugz New RSS feed at blog.stackoverflow.com, with podcast specific RSS feed…
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company April 17, 2008

Podcast #1

This is the inaugural episode of the StackOverflow Podcast, with your hosts Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood, wherein we explain what StackOverflow.com will be. We hope. If you’d like to submit a question to be answered in our next episode, record an audio file (90 seconds or less) and mail it to podcast@stackoverflow.com. The transcript…
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