Friday, February 25, 2011

Developers Gold Rush days

Twitter was recently valued over $10billion and FaceBook is valued over $200 billion?
It seems that to be rich these days all you need is a good enough idea and put it on the web. And with the floods of mobile devices and tablets pc, the internet is everywhere and anytime.


At the same time, it's easier for developers to find resources and help as well. Driven by enough motivation and passion and a good internet connection, you can probably write your own OS. Well maybe not from the ground up but with enough help from the open source community.


Crack Overflow - Expansion pack
It seems that we have more resources these days, ranging from the original Stackoverflow to it's childrens, the stackexchanges. I find programmers stackexchange to be invaluable for those of us with career conundrums hoping to get some advice. And it seems that other stackexchange forums are slowly picking up speed as well.

Also glad to see paid forums like expert exchange isn't appearing that high up on google searches anymore. There is a newcomer to challenge the throne of stackoverflow though, the geeky named Quora.

I haven't really used that much of that forum yet but i'm glad there's more resources for developers. However too many forums could also divide up the available brain power and the crowds. Hope that stackexchange don't over do it.

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