Dec
22
Written by:
Dylan Barber
12/22/2009 12:04 AM
I love Stackoverflow! If you are a programmer and haven't heard about it or used it yet visit it today! Stackoverflow can be as addictive as any other social networking fad out there and more so because of the shear amount of content. The ideas behind Stackoverflow seem to me to be the natural progression of the older forum setup but if you want a clone you either have to pay (http://stackexchange.com/) or you can find and use one of the few clones out there. Quench (http://anantgarg.com/2009/12/09/php-stackoverflow-clone/) seems to be an okay start, there is a simple c# implementation by the guys at RA-Ajax (http://stacked.ra-ajax.org/), and there is a Chinese language site (http://cnprog.com/) that uses a clone that is available at GitHub (http://github.com/cnprog/CNPROG). Those are all great and good starts but since I use DotNetNuke all the time I wanted a module or series of modules that would allow me to duplicate the functionality of Stackoverflow without making core changes (of course) and still have a very flexible setup.
Since I am always looking for a subject for blogging about I thought this might be a good project to blog on a regular basis to keep me focused and moving down the right path. I will share my work and when I am done hopefully there will be a set of modules that can perform like Stackoverflow does.