I was listening to Scott Hanselman's podcast #158 (http://www.hanselminutes.com/default.aspx?showID=176), which was an interview with Joel Spolsky, founder of Fog Creek Software.

A couple of take aways ... first, Joel Spolsky is a wickedly smart dude.  BTW, this is the same "Joel" that I was picking on a few days ago in my "Kevin On Hiring" blog post.  I still stand by the things I said in that post, but it makes me nervous when I start picking a fight with someone of Joel's intellect.

Second, stackoverflow.com is pretty cool.  I've run across this site a few times while Googling for stuff, but now I'm starting to go directly to stackoverflow.com for searches on programming-related questions.

I've never been a huge fan of Google.  I use it, of course, and I get useful results from it from time to time.  But a lot of times, man is it frustrating.  It isn't optimized for searching for programming-related questions.  That's the problem stackoverflow.com was created to solve.  It's community-oriented, so users can vote on the best answers to questions, and if you participate in answering questions, you can build up "reputation" points.  Like I said, it's pretty cool.  To learn more about the motiviation behind stackoverflow, listen to the podcast above.  Then, give stackoverflow.com a whirl.