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Stackoverflow

As a developer who reads Coding Horror, I’ve been keen to find out what Jeff has been up to with stackoverflow.com. So I was surprised and pleased to find out that it’s (at least in part) a collaboration with Joel (on Software). So when the the announcement came that their first podcast was up on stackoverflow, I went straight over to listen…. The site sounds great, for developers by developers, an awesome resource (if you do have problems with erm… the site they refer to… scroll down to the bottom, the answers are usually there even if they are wrong) anyway… the podcast!

An opportunity to listen to people who I really respect as bloggers and as developers. I love both their Blogs but really the podcast was dull, to me it was Joel talking a lot, talking over Jeff and then leaving big pauses where he wanted Jeff to say ‘right’ or ‘wow’ a few times and they don’t talk about Stackoverflow until about a third of the way through.

I liked the Vista discussion halfway through. That did seem like a proper discussion, if the whole of the cast was like that, that would be better. (I agree with Joel though, what is the advantage of upgrading to Vista… no new features and you’ve moved everything… learning overhead for no return).

A square 45 degree angle?

So stackoverflow .com sounds like it will be good, their podcast… average, I’ll listen again to see if it gets better, and I hope it does, and with the ability to call in i’m pretty sure it will.