During my talk at the PDC, I heeded Hanselman’s call to action and decided to veer away from the Northwind “Permademo” and build something different.

In the middle of the talk, I unveiled that I was going to build a competitor to StackOverflow which I would call HaackOverflow. This was all news to Jeff as he hadn’t seen the demo until that point.

The demo walked through some basics of building a standards based ASP.NET MVC application, and sprinkled in a bit of AJAX. At the very end, I swapped out the site.css file and added an image and changed the site from the drab default blue template to something that looked similar in spirit to StackOverflow.

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If you haven’t seen the talk yet, you can watch it on Channel9. Also, the links to my slides and the source code are also available on that page.

I only mention it now because Jeff recently Twittered a link to the Reddit Remix of the StackOverflow logo, which reminded of my own hack job on their logo.