Stackoverflow.com is a soon-to-be-released developer community website from Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky. It is an evolution of existing sites in the genre, adding reddit and wiki type features to the traditional forum style site.
The technology stack it uses is nearly identical to my current personal project: Asp.Net MVC, jQuery, Linq-to-sql, sql 2005. The truly fascinating thing about stackoverflow.com is the buzz. There are already thousands of users on the private beta. I predict, and Joel Spolsky concurrs, that when it goes live it will be huge. Not because its a great site, which it is, but because of the spectacular Atwood/Spolsky marketing machine. These two gentleman have enourmous credibility in the developer community and it shows in the early success of their new joint venture. It is a perfect demonstration of how online reputation is an asset and how to leverage that asset into a business that makes money.
My final prediction is that their server will crash in the first week of go-live. It will be karma's revenge for making fun of twitter.
Americal Gangster is an excellent film. My feelings about it are shared by the first imdb commenter, "I can hardly believe that this amazing package of a story was delivered by Ridley Scott". Highly recommended.
1. IIS 7 Allows Multiple Web Sites
On XP IIS was limited to one web site. To develop multiple web site one had to use virtual directories or develop solely with Cassini (VS Web server). The problem with both of the aforementioned strategies is that they create a significant difference between the development and production web servers. I prefer to develop with IIS, and Vista allows me to do that.
2. IIS 7 Plays Well with Asp.Net MVC
I love Asp.Net MVC but it really does not work well without IIS 7.
3. Vista works with my hardware
Most of my development work is done on my Dell Inspiron 6400, which had loads of driver issues that I never resolved when I was running XP Pro. Vista Business just works.