Searching Stack Overflow The Easy Way (Another Reason To Use Google Chrome)

If you already didn’t have enough reasons to use Google Chrome, I found out that it now has brought the goodness of a one textbox search solution to all sites that support the opensearch specification, including Stack Overflow, not just the one currently registered with the browser, which by default is usually Google. This is a new to me feature, and I am using Google Chrome 7, so if anybody has any information on when this was released I would love to know. ...

November 3, 2010 · 1 min · 192 words · Nick Berardi

Stack Overflow Down...

I woke up this morning, showered, and checked Stack Overflow. Like I do every morning except this morning was different, Stack Overflow is down. What am I going to do to waste time on the computer today, now I really have to focus and have nothing to procrastinate on. I guess I am going to get more of my book done today. The weird thing I observed durring this rare outage is something the team probably wants to look in to. But I received the Yellow Screen of Death for my Firefox and Chrome browsers and their cute kitten for my IE browser. No matter how many times I refereshed and on how many different computers the same breakdown always happened. I have included a couple screen shots below to demonstrate. ...

November 1, 2008 · 1 min · 172 words · Nick Berardi

Is Stackoverflow.com really a Web 2.0 site?

I have been lucky enough to be one of the few and many people that have had the chance to preview the beta of stackoverflow.com. It has a very nice look and feel in my opinion and seems to work very well for an early beta. Jeff Atwood deserves major kudos. However I have had one plaguing question? Is stackoverflow.com really a Web 2.0 site? I started thinking about this question a couple days ago, because as many of you know I have my own project, that isn’t much different functionality wise than stack overflow. As I started cataloging everything that a Web 2.0 site is suppose to consist of, the more I asked the question what is a Web 2.0 site, and is stackoverflow.com really one? ...

August 14, 2008 · 4 min · 658 words · Nick Berardi