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Answer by schlebe for Is it OK to promote my own code by answering my own...

Yes it is now possible. StackExchange has added a new CheckBox to indicate that the Question contains an Answer.You can find more information on this...

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Answer by schlebe for Is it OK to promote my own code by answering my own...

I think that posting an article that exposes a problem and explains directly the solution is a good thing.Posting a question and posting immediately the response is only a workaround.Suppose that you...

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Answer by user3649739 for Is it OK to promote my own code by answering my own...

As a newbie to this site I'd have to say I wouldn't care if the answer was self-answer/promotion as long as it solved a problem or gave me insight to a problem.

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Answer by Bergi for Is it OK to promote my own code by answering my own...

I want to share my work with everybody (for free).Thank you!Is it OK to post a question on Stack Overflow and answer it myself?Yes, definitely.However, you need to care about asking the correct type of...

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Answer by kevinarpe for Is it OK to promote my own code by answering my own...

For what it's worth... my #3 most upvoted answer was a question-answer pair I wrote myself.Ref: On Windows 7, how does Java JVM set "user.home" System property?I spent far too long on this problem....

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Answer by user50049 for Is it OK to promote my own code by answering my own...

We support answering your own questions, it's built right into the user interface. It's designed for those moments when you have this sort of epiphany, pull something together and want to make sure the...

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Answer by unor for Is it OK to promote my own code by answering my own...

You could create a question at Software Recommendations SE (tagged with jquery) and answer it yourself, either including the full code (if it’s short) or linking to it. Make sure to disclose that it’s...

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Answer by Bryan Oakley for Is it OK to promote my own code by answering my...

I think if you can formulate a good question, then give a good answer that includes your code, that is quite acceptable. However, if the question you give is "how do I do X beautifully", that is not...

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Answer by John Saunders for Is it OK to promote my own code by answering my...

Stack Overflow is not GitHub. I recommend that you not start turning it into a code-sharing service.

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Answer by Quentin for Is it OK to promote my own code by answering my own...

Answering questions to promote your own libraries (unless done in moderation and with the answer being useful without reference to an external resource) is likely to cause people to consider you a...

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Is it OK to promote my own code by answering my own questions?

I have written some plugins for jQuery that are very often searched on Google. One of them is used for long-click event handler, presented in a "beautiful" way, for example:$("a").longclick( function()...

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