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Here at White October towers we pride ourselves on not knowing everything. This is what the internet was made for. So when we are stumped on a problem we hit the Google. These days however our first point of call for any technical programming problems is Stack Overflow. A quick search of that site usually turns up someone else with a similar problem and if we are very lucky someone has posted up a solution. If not we post up a question and people will try their best to post an answer.

As we find it a good resource we try and answer questions on things we know about, in turn for answers you get points and sometimes badges.  The badges/points side of things is a little childish but very addictive and a more productive use of time than Youtube.

Recently Stack Overflow released an API and I thought that joining Stack Overflow and Twitter together sounded like a fun reason to play with both websites’ APIs.

So Stack of Twits was born and unleashed to the world last night. Simply it sends you a message on Twitter when a question matches your set of keywords.

I built the site using our framework of choice symfony very quickly. It only took me a few hours over the course of a week or so to get it together. While building it I have made a PHP wrapper for the Stack Overflow API and the plan is to open source this work. Any interest in it pre release please comment below.