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Programming language trends
In your own projects, what computer language(s) do you usually use? Java (89%, 8 Votes) PHP (44%, 4 Votes) Shell dialect (like Bash) (44%, 4 Votes) C++ (22%, 2 Votes) C (11%, 1 Votes) Python (11%, 1 Votes) Ruby (0%, 0 Votes) Scripting language(like Groovy) (0%, 0 Votes) Scala (0%, 0 Votes) Perl (0%, 0 Votes) Other (0%, 0 Votes) Total Voters: 9 Vote Loading ...	What computer language you specialize in? PHP (57%, 4 Votes) Java (43%, 3 Votes) Scala (0%, 0 Votes) Ruby (0%, 0 Votes) C# (0%, 0 Votes) Basic (0%, 0 Votes) Python (0%, 0 Votes) C (0%, 0 Votes) C++ (0%, 0 Votes) Other (0%, 0 Votes) Total Voters: 7 Vote Loading ...	Best general purpose programming language is? Java (57%, 4 Votes) Python (14%, 1 Votes) C# (14%, 1 Votes) Other (14%, 1 Votes) C/C++ (0%, 0 Votes) Basic (0%, 0 Votes) PHP (0%, 0 Votes) Ruby (0%, 0 Votes) Scala (0%, 0 Votes) Total Voters: 7 Vote Loading ...
Trend: what general purpose computer language will dominate IT industry in the next decade? Java (45%, 5 Votes) C/C++ (27%, 3 Votes) Python (9%, 1 Votes) C# (9%, 1 Votes) Other (9%, 1 Votes) Basic (0%, 0 Votes) PHP (0%, 0 Votes) Ruby (0%, 0 Votes) Scala (0%, 0 Votes) Total Voters: 11 Vote Loading ...

Build tool trends
What are your favorite build tools? nant (88%, 7 Votes) ant (0%, 0 Votes) gant (0%, 0 Votes) make (0%, 0 Votes) nmake (0%, 0 Votes) rake (0%, 0 Votes) Total Voters: 8 Vote Loading ...	What new build tool would you consider as Ant replacement? Nant (100%, 1 Votes) Ant is still the best (100%, 1 Votes) Rant (0%, 0 Votes) Gant (0%, 0 Votes) I prefer something else (0%, 0 Votes) Total Voters: 1 Vote Loading ...	What build management tool does your project or firm use? Maven 2 (12%, 2 Votes) Ant (12%, 2 Votes) Maven (6%, 1 Votes) Buildr (6%, 1 Votes) Ivy (0%, 0 Votes) Maven 3 (0%, 0 Votes) GAnt (0%, 0 Votes) Gradle (0%, 0 Votes) Rake (0%, 0 Votes) Raven (0%, 0 Votes) Any Make Type Tool (0%, 0 Votes) Total Voters: 17 Vote Loading ...

Software Tests/TDD trends
Which test frameworks do you use? Selenium (100%, 1 Votes) JUnit (or any other unit) (0%, 0 Votes) Fit (0%, 0 Votes) JBehave (0%, 0 Votes) Mockito (or any other mock) (0%, 0 Votes) Canoo WebTest (0%, 0 Votes) Something different (0%, 0 Votes) Total Voters: 1 Vote Loading ...

Virtualization trends
Which virtualization do you like most? VM Ware (0%, 0 Votes) Virtual Box (0%, 0 Votes) Parallels (0%, 0 Votes) coLinux (0%, 0 Votes) Xen (0%, 0 Votes) OpenVZ (0%, 0 Votes) Something else (0%, 0 Votes) I don't use virtulization (0%, 0 Votes) Total Voters: 0 Vote Loading ...	Which virtualization is used on your Enterprise? VM Ware (100%, 1 Votes) Virtual Box (0%, 0 Votes) Parallels (0%, 0 Votes) coLinux (0%, 0 Votes) Xen (0%, 0 Votes) OpenVZ (0%, 0 Votes) Something else (0%, 0 Votes) We don't use virtulization (0%, 0 Votes) Total Voters: 1 Vote Loading ...	Virtualized OS can be used for? Portable OS (0%, 0 Votes) Standardized OS versions (0%, 0 Votes) More Flexibility/Scalability (0%, 0 Votes) Games (0%, 0 Votes) Build environments (0%, 0 Votes) Test environments (0%, 0 Votes) Development environments (0%, 0 Votes) Nothing useful (0%, 0 Votes) Something else (0%, 0 Votes) Total Voters: 0 Vote Loading ...
Estimate your experience level with Virtualization technology? Guru (0%, 0 Votes) Expert / Admin (0%, 0 Votes) Professional / Developer (0%, 0 Votes) User (0%, 0 Votes) Beginner (0%, 0 Votes) Have tried (0%, 0 Votes) No experience (0%, 0 Votes) Total Voters: 0 Vote Loading ...

Version Control/SCM trends
Which tool is used for SCM/VCS in your enterprise? Subversion (SVN) (83%, 5 Votes) Mercurial (Hg) (17%, 1 Votes) Git (0%, 0 Votes) Bazaar (0%, 0 Votes) CVS (0%, 0 Votes) Other (0%, 0 Votes) We use no SCM (0%, 0 Votes) Total Voters: 6 Vote Loading ...	Do you plan to migrate to new SCM? Subversion (SVN) (50%, 2 Votes) Mercurial (Hg) (25%, 1 Votes) Our current SCM is just perfect (25%, 1 Votes) Git (0%, 0 Votes) Bazaar (0%, 0 Votes) Other (0%, 0 Votes) Total Voters: 4 Vote Loading ...	What are the 3 most important SCM/VCS features for you? Simplicity (100%, 2 Votes) Speed (50%, 1 Votes) Short learning curve (50%, 1 Votes) Bug-free (solve code problems, not SCM) (50%, 1 Votes) Open-source (50%, 1 Votes) Cross-platform (works the same way for many OS's) (0%, 0 Votes) Established SCM with large community (0%, 0 Votes) Centralization (0%, 0 Votes) Distribution (0%, 0 Votes) Number of capabilities and commands, more is better (0%, 0 Votes) Something else (0%, 0 Votes) Total Voters: 2 Vote Loading ...
What SVN client do you use? Subversive (0%, 0 Votes) Subclipse (0%, 0 Votes) Idea SVN (0%, 0 Votes) TortoiseSVN (0%, 0 Votes) Command line (0%, 0 Votes) Different tool (0%, 0 Votes) Don't use SVN (0%, 0 Votes) Total Voters: 0 Vote Loading ...	How does version control (VCS) work in your enterprise? All developers can do anything with VCS (0%, 0 Votes) Different groups have different permissions or roles (merge, admin, just view, etc) (0%, 0 Votes) Our SCM is managed by external partner (0%, 0 Votes) Different answer (0%, 0 Votes) Total Voters: 0 Vote Loading ...

Continueous Integration/CI trends
Which CI tools are used in your enterprise? Hudson (29%, 2 Votes) CruiseControl (29%, 2 Votes) Something else (29%, 2 Votes) Continuum (14%, 1 Votes) TeamCity (14%, 1 Votes) Total Voters: 7 Vote Loading ...	Which features are most important for perfect CI tool? Parallel builds (67%, 2 Votes) Simple usage (67%, 2 Votes) Good support (33%, 1 Votes) Large community with lots of plugins (33%, 1 Votes) Simple to extend (33%, 1 Votes) Available know-how (simple to find specialists to support your projects) (0%, 0 Votes) Good integration with other enterprise tools (0%, 0 Votes) Most advanced features (0%, 0 Votes) Free tool (0%, 0 Votes) Established standard, popularity (0%, 0 Votes) Open source (0%, 0 Votes) Something else (0%, 0 Votes) Total Voters: 3 Vote Loading ...	The setup of your CI environment is? We don't use CI (100%, 1 Votes) Just CI tool located on one of our developers computers (0%, 0 Votes) Dedicated server for single CI tool (0%, 0 Votes) Dedicated servers with independent CI instances (0%, 0 Votes) Dedicated servers for master-slave configuration of CI (0%, 0 Votes) Many CI setups distributed through teams (de-centralized setup) (0%, 0 Votes) We use external cloud for builds (0%, 0 Votes) Different setup (0%, 0 Votes) Total Voters: 1 Vote Loading ...
Who manages CI environment in your enterprise? Dedicated person per team, teams decide on their own (100%, 1 Votes) Everyone who can (0%, 0 Votes) Employee, single Release or Config Manager (0%, 0 Votes) Contractor, single Release or Config Manager (0%, 0 Votes) Team, Release or Config Management (0%, 0 Votes) External partner manages our CI (0%, 0 Votes) Different answer (0%, 0 Votes) We don't use CI (0%, 0 Votes) Total Voters: 1 Vote Loading ...

Web frontend trends
Which Selenium configurations do you use to test your web front end? Selenium Grid (50%, 1 Votes) Selenium Grids under CI (like Hudson or TeamCity) (50%, 1 Votes) Single Selenium (0%, 0 Votes) Many Selenium grids on one Server (0%, 0 Votes) Other config (0%, 0 Votes) We use other tool (0%, 0 Votes) Total Voters: 2 Vote Loading ...	Which frameworks do you use to test your web frontend? Selenium (100%, 1 Votes) Windmill (0%, 0 Votes) FITnesse (0%, 0 Votes) WebDriver (0%, 0 Votes) Watir (0%, 0 Votes) Canoo Webtest (0%, 0 Votes) Sahi (0%, 0 Votes) Other framework (0%, 0 Votes) We use no test automation (0%, 0 Votes) Total Voters: 1 Vote Loading ...	What tools do you use for site design? Code directly to my site, no design tool (100%, 1 Votes) Photoshop (0%, 0 Votes) Artisteer (0%, 0 Votes) Gimp (0%, 0 Votes) Dream Weather (0%, 0 Votes) Free online tools and generators (0%, 0 Votes) Tools from my provider (0%, 0 Votes) CoffeeCup tools (0%, 0 Votes) Something else (0%, 0 Votes) Total Voters: 1 Vote Loading ...

Enterprise tools trends
You parse your logs using? Grep (any version) (0%, 0 Votes) Shell script you wrote (0%, 0 Votes) Log parsing tool (0%, 0 Votes) Program you wrote (0%, 0 Votes) Any text editor (0%, 0 Votes) Something else (0%, 0 Votes) Total Voters: 0 Vote Loading ...	What would describe state of logging infrastructure of your enterprise best? Tons of logs and no good way to handle them (0%, 0 Votes) Tons of logs and finding the problem might take days (0%, 0 Votes) No log system setup, we loose important data (0%, 0 Votes) We can extract the info from log files in acceptable time (0%, 0 Votes) Problems can be found quickly thanks to our tuned logging and analyzing system (0%, 0 Votes) System reacts to the problems by sending messages to the teams most qualified (0%, 0 Votes) We have no logging infrastructure (0%, 0 Votes) Total Voters: 0 Vote Loading ...

OS Shell trends
Your skill as shell programmer is? FreeTime coder (acceptable) (33%, 3 Votes) Admin (very good) (22%, 2 Votes) Developer (good) (22%, 2 Votes) Novice (22%, 2 Votes) Guru (perfect) (0%, 0 Votes) No skill (0%, 0 Votes) Total Voters: 9 Vote Loading ...	Best shells (or command line language) are? Bash (62%, 8 Votes) Zsh (23%, 3 Votes) Csh (15%, 2 Votes) Power shell (8%, 1 Votes) Ksh (8%, 1 Votes) Lush (0%, 0 Votes) Quicksilver (0%, 0 Votes) IPython (0%, 0 Votes) Rush (0%, 0 Votes) Pash (0%, 0 Votes) Fish shell (0%, 0 Votes) Dos cl (0%, 0 Votes) Different shell (0%, 0 Votes) Total Voters: 13 Vote Loading ...

Software Migration/Upgrade trends
How would you prefer to migrate to new technology? I would prefer different method (100%, 1 Votes) Hire new specialist with right know-how (0%, 0 Votes) Get contractor to introduce this technology to your enterprise (0%, 0 Votes) Let one or many developers learn new technology (0%, 0 Votes) Invite coach to teach this technology to your teams (0%, 0 Votes) Buy some interactive course or certification software (0%, 0 Votes) Send your employees to seminars or workshops (0%, 0 Votes) Total Voters: 1 Vote Loading ...

SQL trends
Which SQL implementations are mostly used in your projects? MySQL (75%, 3 Votes) MS SQL Server (50%, 2 Votes) Standard (0%, 0 Votes) PostgreSQL (0%, 0 Votes) DB2 (0%, 0 Votes) mSQL (0%, 0 Votes) Oracle (0%, 0 Votes) Informix (0%, 0 Votes) Something else (0%, 0 Votes) We don't use SQL (0%, 0 Votes) Total Voters: 4 Vote Loading ...

Digital Copyright trends
Would you buy digitally protected media or software? Absolutely (0%, 0 Votes) Yes, because I understand that it protects the rights of owner (0%, 0 Votes) I might, if I really like the product (0%, 0 Votes) No, because then I might get difficulties using product myself (0%, 0 Votes) Never (0%, 0 Votes) Total Voters: 0 Vote Loading ...

Unix trends
Your favorite X-Windows? GNome (25%, 1 Votes) Kde (25%, 1 Votes) LXDE (25%, 1 Votes) Something else (25%, 1 Votes) Fluxbox (0%, 0 Votes) Enlightenment (0%, 0 Votes) Blackbox (0%, 0 Votes) Xfce (0%, 0 Votes) Don't use X (0%, 0 Votes) Total Voters: 4 Vote Loading ...

Java trends
Your favorite Java IDE is? Eclipse (60%, 6 Votes) NetBeans IDE (20%, 2 Votes) IntelliJ IDEA (10%, 1 Votes) Something else (10%, 1 Votes) Borland JBuilder (0%, 0 Votes) JCreator (0%, 0 Votes) Oracle JDeveloper (0%, 0 Votes) Total Voters: 10 Vote Loading ...

Package management trends
Your favorite way to manage packages is? Tarball command Line (0%, 0 Votes) Debian Dpkg command Line (0%, 0 Votes) Manually (0%, 0 Votes) Synaptic (0%, 0 Votes) Adept (0%, 0 Votes) Apt-get command line (0%, 0 Votes) Something else (0%, 0 Votes) Total Voters: 0 Vote Loading ...

Internet trends
Your favorite browser? Firefox (75%, 6 Votes) Opera (13%, 1 Votes) Safari (13%, 1 Votes) Firefox based (swiftfox, iceweasel, etc) (0%, 0 Votes) Internet Explorer (0%, 0 Votes) Chrome (0%, 0 Votes) Galleon (0%, 0 Votes) Lynx (0%, 0 Votes) Something else (0%, 0 Votes) Total Voters: 8 Vote Loading ...

Consumer electronics trends
Most important features for perfect mp3 player are? Price (67%, 2 Votes) Sound quality (67%, 2 Votes) Simple, good usability (67%, 2 Votes) Physical feats (small, light, flat, etc) (0%, 0 Votes) Integrates with other things (3rd party created sound system for my mp3 player) (0%, 0 Votes) Cool features (DNSe, appz, etc) (0%, 0 Votes) Extras (good earphones etc) (0%, 0 Votes) Brand (cool to own new iPod) (0%, 0 Votes) Design (0%, 0 Votes) Smth. else (0%, 0 Votes) Total Voters: 3 Vote Loading ...