Stack Overflow. The Answer for Programmers?

While reading random news articles today, I came across the Stack Overflow site which is now in public beta mode.

The site is founded by Joel Spolsky of Joel on Software, and Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror.

It is very much like Yahoo! Answers.  The difference is most users in Stack Overflow have a technical background so you’re programming question would most likely get an answer here than in Yahoo! Answers.

Hopefully, this site would grow huge as this really benefits a lot of programmers like me.

And, we could just ignore the Google result for Experts Exchange which requires payment to see the answer.

How to be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive Summary

Programming is like Kung-Fu. To be a master requires patience, perseverance, and temperance.
Here’s a great article on how to be kung-fu master of the geeks.

To be a good programmer is difficult and noble. The hardest part of making real a collective vision of a software project is dealing with one’s coworkers and customers. Writing computer programs is important and takes great intelligence and skill.

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WordPress Themes

I’m quite unsatisfied with the current theme used on http://blog.phlist.com.

Tonight I started searching for a wordpress theme.

First I looked at the theme gallery at wordpress.com.  Didn’t find anything.

Then, I remembered smashingmagazine.com usually makes a great list about web design.

So I search on google “smashing magazine wordpress”.

This brought me to http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/02/09/83-beautiful-wordpress-themes-you-probably-havent-seen/

Great list.