Stack Overflow Clone: Enterprise Dev Bootcamp

[Jackolantern]

I came across a very nice tutorial series today that I thought I would share for two reasons. First, I remember someone asking if anyone knew of any way to set up a Stack Overflow-style site a few months back, but I can't find it now (and it would likely be too old to update anyway), so I was sure to add SO to the title.

Second, and most applicable to others here, this is one of the few free tutorials I have ever found that really gives you a good taste of real "enterprise development". To those not familiar, and while it means several different things, the most universal aspect of enterprise development is that it uses many developers, many tools, and many patterns that have been learned and gained through the study of the philosophy of software development. If you want to be a professional software developer, you should really check this out, because if your potential company is serious about dedicated software development, this is how you will be working. It may scare some people away, but in the end, you may not have been happy as a professional developer and may find you prefer it more as a hobby. You may find you are more happy doing your own work where you can keep writing code instead of spending the hours working with the tools that keep large-scale coding projects from turning into complete cluster Fs.

Without further ado, you can find the DotNetSlackers tutorial project: here.

As you can tell from the domain, it is for .NET, hence ASP.NET. However, if you are wanting to be a professional coder, it is a great platform to know. C# has tons of bleedover with Java.