As a developer I'm sure you've had this problem... Your application is throwing an extremely cryptic error that seems like there is little (or no) possibility of any other developers actually knowing the answers to. Well, you take the usual approach by popping the error into Google (insert favorite search engine here) and hit submit. There is always a hope that the 1st result will contain EXACTLY what you're looking for...in haste, you quickly click on the link that ironically has almost the exact wording you used in your search (without reading the URL)! You are presented with a truncated version of the question and an account login that requests you to register (and ultimately pay...you know the site I'm talking about) for the answers. And of course, you click back in your browser and there are no other relavent search results.....typical.
Enter StackOverflow, or SO as its loyal community has deemed it. Right now the site is in beta (slated to go live sometime next month), however, the community is extremely active. StackOverflow is a reputation based developer Q&A network created by Jeff Atwood and a small team of developers. I have been "beta testing" the site for a couple of weeks now and have been very impressed with the quality of responses I've gotten to my questions. Not only are the answers extremely relevant, but the answers come QUICK. The best part is it's completely free!
When this site goes live to the general developer community it's going to be huge. So, if you're a developer and need answers to burning questions, add this site to your arsenol...you will not be dissappointed.
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