Stack Overflow's "Documentation" site was an attempt to create collaborative documentation for software. A year on, the company has essentially admitted the initiative was a bust and although it has "learned quite a bit" from the experience, Documentation itself is biting the digital dust.
Stack Overflow might as well be the official documentation for all programming languages, given how often it's used by developers to complement their abilities. The Q&A site however is dramatically increasing its scope with "Stack Overflow Documentation", self-described as the "biggest expansion to Stack Overflow since it first launched".
What’s the most popular technology among developers? What’s their favourite sci-fi franchise? Do they prefer cats or dogs? Programming resource website Stack Overflow conducted an extensive survey with tens of thousands of developers to find out the answers to some insightful and quirky questions.
Any programmer worth his or her salt has heard of Stack Overflow. Heck, you can't really call yourself a coder unless you've browsed a code snippet or piece of advice on the Jeff Atwood/Joel Spolsky creation. So, what does it take to keep such a heavily trafficked site like Stack Overflow afloat? Here are all the numbers (and photos) you could possibly want.
