company October 30, 2010

Database Upgrade

As part of our datacenter migration, the database server received a substantial upgrade: Oregon 48 GB 2 Xeon X5470 CPUs 8 total cores @ 3.33 Ghz NYC 64 GB 2 Xeon X5680 CPUs 12 total cores @ 3.33 GHz However, a few things didn’t go quite to plan in the migration. Much to our chagrin,…
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Co-Founder (Former)
community October 29, 2010

Stack Overflow results featured in MSDN Search

Did you notice anything different about MSDN search lately? MSDN is Microsoft’s mega huge developer information portal, and we’re happy to announce that starting today, Stack Overflow search results will be incorporated into the results when you search for something on MSDN. That lets you see official Microsoft developer documentation alongside the community conversations that…
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Co-founder & Former Chairman of the Board
community October 27, 2010

Code Camp Video Interview

A few weeks ago, I presented HTML 5 Local Storage — as featured in our global network auto-login — at the 2010 Silicon Valley Code Camp. After the talk, Mehul Harry of DevExpress buttonholed me to talk about HTML 5 local storage … and everything else we’ve been working on over the last 6 months.…
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Co-Founder (Former)
company October 22, 2010

Datacenter Migration Oct. 23

This Saturday, October 23rd, starting at about 2 PM Pacific, we will be migrating all of our primary sites from the Corvallis, OR datacenter to the New York, NY datacenter. Please be advised that this is a major move, and while we will do everything we can to prevent major service interruptions (largely with a…
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area51 October 21, 2010

When Will My Site Graduate?

At 90 days into beta, we’re supposed to evaluate each Area 51 beta site and either “pass” or “fail” them as full Stack Exchange sites. Some sites feel they’re not going to make it. Please do not close GIS SE The Geographic Information Systems SE site has one more day of beta. We are Excellent…
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Director of Community Development (former)
community October 19, 2010

Vote Early, Vote Often

Have you ever wondered why the vote buttons and score are so prominent on every Stack Exchange question? Putting voting front and center is very much intentional; it is how … good content is voted to the top wrong or incorrect content is voted to the bottom users who consistently provide useful content accrue reputation…
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Co-Founder (Former)
community October 15, 2010

Stack Overflow Chat Now Live

It seems like only five short months ago we were discussing the value of having a hypothetical “Third Place” for our network: The third place is a term used in the concept of community building to refer to social surroundings separate from the two usual social environments of home and the workplace. In his influential…
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careers October 14, 2010

The Best Damn Careers Site

Last week I was at Business of Software 2010 (which was totally awesome by the way) and ended up talking to a number of people about Careers. One of them said: “This is great, but why don’t we hear more about this?” And he was right… It’s been a while since we blogged anything about…
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community October 14, 2010

New Question Migration Paths

Several Area 51 sites have made it from being mere proposals to vibrant, thriving websites. Namely, webapps, gaming, ubuntu, webmasters, and very soon, cooking. And we’re about to have a heck of a lot more sites come out of beta. Thus, we need to handle migration of questions from site to site in a more…
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Co-Founder (Former)
area51 October 13, 2010

Stack Exchange Naming for Dummies

A while ago, I wrote: “Individually-branded sites felt more authentic and trustworthy. We thought that letting every Stack Exchange site have its own domain name, visual identity, logo, and brand would help the community feel more coherent. After all, nobody wants to say that they live in Housing Block 2938TC.” Well, funny thing… that didn’t…
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Co-founder & Former Chairman of the Board
community October 13, 2010

Millionth Stack Overflow Question

At about 9:26 PM Pacific time, on October 12th, 2010, the millionth question was asked on Stack Overflow. And then promptly closed. This of course calls for a celebration. There was an informal meta Contest to predict date and time that stackoverflow will eclipse 1,000,000 questions — once the community decides who the winner is,…
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Co-Founder (Former)
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