Programmers SE

[email protected] (Yannis Rizos) Mon, 19 Dec 2011 07:45:56 +0200
Newsgroups php.evangelism
Message-ID <CA+8moQC3KM7O7_An3H3tJZurEHZqJr5UPDF6sD9=eNCUAV5gVQ@mail.gmail.com>
Cool, the list isn't dead!

In the past few months I've been extremely active on Programmers SE
(http://programmers.stackexchange.com), StackOverflow's sister site
for "for professional programmers who are interested in getting expert
answers on conceptual questions about software development." If you
are unaware of StackOverflow and the whole Stack Exchange network of
Q&A sites, feel free to drop me an email. I'm in no way affiliated
with the network, I'm just a regular user and you should be aware that
there is a commercial entity behind it, Stack Exchange Inc.

Anyways, back to how all this relates to the list: Programmers SE has
a very vibrant community of fellow software developers, and quite a
few interesting questions and even more interesting answers. The PHP
tag is one of the most popular tags, with almost 500 related
questions, but I strongly feel that the answers are lacking. I'm
currently at the top of the list of PHP answerers
(http://programmers.stackexchange.com/tags/php/topusers) which to me
is a strong indicator that PHP questions don't get the answers they
deserve, my answers are of average quality at best.

So I think there's a very good opportunity of evangelizing PHP, by
providing expert answers on PHP conceptual questions, or coding
questions on StackOverflow (I'm focusing this on Programmers SE,
because StackOverflow has a healthy PHP community already). And of
course I'd welcome any help on all those PHP vs Language X questions
(ok, that's a mob request - feel free to ignore).

Thoughts?