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Introduction

StackOverflow is an amazing site for coding questions. It was created by Joel Spolsky of joelonsoftware.com, Jeff Atwood of codinghorror.com, and some other incredibly smart guys who truly care about user experience. I have been a total fan of SO since it went mainstream and it's now a borderline addiction (you can see my StackOverflow badge on the right sidebar).

The Story

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Update 6/21/09 11:37pm PST: I think I've got the situation under control now. The load is between 0 and 3 now and pages load relatively fast. I will be posting about the getting redditted/delicioused experience later.

Update 6/23/09 12:06am PST: Added jQuery, Greasemonkey, Ruby on Rails, and Objective-C, broke databases into their own section, and sorted everything alphabetically.

Update 6/23/09 7:10pm PST: Added Scala, Lua, TCL, F#, Regex, and HTTP.

Update 7/21/09 10:38am PST: Added ActionScript3/Flex, Erlang, PL/SQL, Silverlight, VBA, VHDL, WPF/XAML.

Update 10/24/09 1:57pm PST: Added Flash development/language/IDE, Emacs, Xpath/Xslt, Spring framework.

So, one day someone at StackOverflow started a "Hidden features of" post about a famous language (I don't feel like finding out which one was first exactly), and it turned out to be so popular that other posts in the same series started popping up.

Such questions were quickly turned into community wikis, for the purposes of harvesting and organizing information coming from the best developers on the planet and voted by users of the site. There are literally hundreds of answers, sorted by votes.

The Hidden Features series is great for people who are new to a certain language. It shows the ropes and tricks, all in one place, in the most concise manner possible. Even pros oftentimes find features of their favorite language that they'd never heard about.

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Hidden features of Bash – also see my bash cheatsheet.

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