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Abel Avram reporting on InfoQ: Stack Overflow, a web site for programming questions&answers, has been made public while still in beta. The site offers programmers the opportunity to ask questions and receive answers from fellow coders for free, and intends to become the right source of answers for any programming question.

I've been aware of this website for quite some time. First from listening to the StackOverflow podcast on IT Conversations. And then recently from my referer page.

You get a strange feeling when non-public or foreign language websites link to your blog. Now that it is public, I can finally see what they are talking about.

If this is the first time you've heard about StackOverflow.com, let me just mention that it was built by Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood, prolific authors of humorous, and sometimes biting, programming related web contents.

I'm not a big fan of programming Q&A websites, mostly because most of them a ad-laden or behind pay-walls. I hope StackOverflow.com will be one that reverses the trend.