Today while I was in office, I was given the task of creating an applet with buttons on it that change colours every time you click on it. I had the logic in my mind but still needed some help on how to start about it. I had been alloted just a few hours to complete the task so I had to get a quick solution.
At this time I suddenly remembered a website to which I had registered during my college days. It had been a great use to me in my project during that time. The site is https://experts-exchange.com. I put my query on it & guess what , within 15-20 minutes I had already got 3 possible solutions to my query of which I selected the best one suitable & completed the task well before time to get a praise from my team leader. Well once again this site had helped me a lot.
Well what’s so different about this site. Here are a few facts about this site:
Experts Excahnge(EE) is neither an ’’email an expert’’ nor a wild west tech forum. Experts Exchange is a patented and professional IT collaboration site where you will find peer-to-peer knowledge sharing.
Its one of those unique sites where people compete against each other to solve your problem. Doesnt it sound interesting that experts are competing amongst each other to solve ’your’ problem. The end result is surely going to be better than you had expected.
It is one of the most powerful Community Support resource in the world. You can get instant solutions for your most demanding Community Support problems. There are over lakhs of time tested solutions already on the site. You can search for a particular solution. If its not there you can always ask an expert. The vast IT library puts more IT information at your finger tips. You are moments away from finding your solution.
You can register for free. Once you register you are awarded a few points. You can use this points to ask a question. Depending on the difficulty level of your question you can award points. If you find your question is difficult you can grade it for higher points. This will attract the top level experts to compete for a solution. You can surely expect the best result for higher point questions. Your query gets solved within minutes.
5.If you think you are an expert you too can anwser questions. If the user who had put up the question finds your solution relevant he will accept it & you will be awarded relevant points. This points you can use for asking further questions whenever required. You also get 5 bonus points everyday. You can also accumulate the expert points and earn various expert certifications depending on your total quota of points.
6.You also get a weekly newsletter that has some of the latest solutions available to some universal problems like virus attacks, spamming etc. The IT resources available on this site range from hardware to software, from networking to applications and a lot more. Almost all existing IT technologies widely used today are present there. You ask for a solution and you are bound to get it. A must for an IT professional.
Some of the statistics of this site that are interesting are:
1, 035, 705 solutions.
3, 299, 437 IT professional Members .
One of the PC magazine top 100 sites that you cannot live without. Over 188K IT Rock Stars call Experts Exchange home.
Some of the corporate biggies that use this site: AT&T, Computer Associates, CitiCorp, Cisco, Microsoft, Motorola, Unisys and many more.
So if you are in IT field and have not registered with this site, I would recommend you to do it today.