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Programming language trends
In your own projects, what computer language(s) do you usually use? Java (57%, 8 Votes) Other (36%, 5 Votes) PHP (29%, 4 Votes) Shell dialect (like Bash) (29%, 4 Votes) C++ (14%, 2 Votes) C (7%, 1 Votes) Python (7%, 1 Votes) Scripting language(like Groovy) (0%, 0 Votes) Scala (0%, 0 Votes) Perl (0%, 0 Votes) Ruby (0%, 0 Votes) Total Voters: 14 Vote Loading ...	What computer language you specialize in? Java (71%, 10 Votes) PHP (29%, 4 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: 14 Vote Loading ...	Best general purpose programming language is? Java (73%, 8 Votes) Python (9%, 1 Votes) C# (9%, 1 Votes) Other (9%, 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: 11 Vote Loading ...
Trend: what general purpose computer language will dominate IT industry in the next decade? Java (39%, 11 Votes) C/C++ (11%, 3 Votes) Other (11%, 3 Votes) Python (7%, 2 Votes) C# (4%, 1 Votes) Basic (0%, 0 Votes) PHP (0%, 0 Votes) Ruby (0%, 0 Votes) Scala (0%, 0 Votes) Total Voters: 28 Vote Loading ...

Build tool trends
What are your favorite build tools? nant (100%, 9 Votes) ant (0%, 0 Votes) gant (0%, 0 Votes) make (0%, 0 Votes) nmake (0%, 0 Votes) rake (0%, 0 Votes) Total Voters: 9 Vote Loading ...	What new build tool would you consider as Ant replacement? I prefer something else (88%, 7 Votes) Nant (13%, 1 Votes) Ant is still the best (13%, 1 Votes) Rant (0%, 0 Votes) Gant (0%, 0 Votes) Total Voters: 8 Vote Loading ...	What build management tool does your project or firm use? Buildr (47%, 15 Votes) Maven 2 (6%, 2 Votes) Ant (6%, 2 Votes) Maven (3%, 1 Votes) Maven 3 (3%, 1 Votes) Ivy (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: 32 Vote Loading ...

Software Tests/TDD trends
Which test frameworks do you use? Something different (91%, 10 Votes) Selenium (9%, 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) Total Voters: 11 Vote Loading ...

Virtualization trends
Which virtualization do you like most? I don't use virtulization (100%, 5 Votes) 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) Total Voters: 5 Vote Loading ...	Which virtualization is used on your Enterprise? We don't use virtulization (90%, 9 Votes) VM Ware (10%, 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) Total Voters: 10 Vote Loading ...	Virtualized OS can be used for? Something else (100%, 9 Votes) 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) Total Voters: 9 Vote Loading ...
Estimate your experience level with Virtualization technology? No experience (100%, 4 Votes) 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) Total Voters: 4 Vote Loading ...

Version Control/SCM trends
Which tool is used for SCM/VCS in your enterprise? Subversion (SVN) (50%, 7 Votes) We use no SCM (43%, 6 Votes) Mercurial (Hg) (7%, 1 Votes) Git (0%, 0 Votes) Bazaar (0%, 0 Votes) CVS (0%, 0 Votes) Other (0%, 0 Votes) Total Voters: 14 Vote Loading ...	Do you plan to migrate to new SCM? Our current SCM is just perfect (69%, 9 Votes) Subversion (SVN) (15%, 2 Votes) Git (8%, 1 Votes) Mercurial (Hg) (8%, 1 Votes) Bazaar (0%, 0 Votes) Other (0%, 0 Votes) Total Voters: 13 Vote Loading ...	What are the 3 most important SCM/VCS features for you? Something else (80%, 8 Votes) Simplicity (20%, 2 Votes) Short learning curve (10%, 1 Votes) Open-source (10%, 1 Votes) Speed (10%, 1 Votes) Bug-free (solve code problems, not SCM) (10%, 1 Votes) Distribution (0%, 0 Votes) Established SCM with large community (0%, 0 Votes) Cross-platform (works the same way for many OS's) (0%, 0 Votes) Number of capabilities and commands, more is better (0%, 0 Votes) Centralization (0%, 0 Votes) Total Voters: 10 Vote Loading ...
What SVN client do you use? Don't use SVN (93%, 14 Votes) Command line (7%, 1 Votes) Subversive (0%, 0 Votes) Subclipse (0%, 0 Votes) Idea SVN (0%, 0 Votes) TortoiseSVN (0%, 0 Votes) Different tool (0%, 0 Votes) Total Voters: 15 Vote Loading ...	How does version control (VCS) work in your enterprise? Different answer (100%, 7 Votes) 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) Total Voters: 7 Vote Loading ...

Continueous Integration/CI trends
Which CI tools are used in your enterprise? Something else (72%, 13 Votes) Hudson (17%, 3 Votes) CruiseControl (11%, 2 Votes) Continuum (6%, 1 Votes) TeamCity (6%, 1 Votes) Total Voters: 18 Vote Loading ...	Which features are most important for perfect CI tool? Something else (70%, 7 Votes) Parallel builds (20%, 2 Votes) Simple usage (20%, 2 Votes) Simple to extend (10%, 1 Votes) Good support (10%, 1 Votes) Large community with lots of plugins (10%, 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) Open source (0%, 0 Votes) Free tool (0%, 0 Votes) Established standard, popularity (0%, 0 Votes) Most advanced features (0%, 0 Votes) Total Voters: 10 Vote Loading ...	The setup of your CI environment is? We don't use CI (100%, 8 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: 8 Vote Loading ...
Who manages CI environment in your enterprise? We don't use CI (92%, 11 Votes) Dedicated person per team, teams decide on their own (8%, 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) Total Voters: 12 Vote Loading ...

Web frontend trends
Which Selenium configurations do you use to test your web front end? We use other tool (80%, 12 Votes) Selenium Grid (13%, 2 Votes) Selenium Grids under CI (like Hudson or TeamCity) (7%, 1 Votes) Single Selenium (0%, 0 Votes) Many Selenium grids on one Server (0%, 0 Votes) Other config (0%, 0 Votes) Total Voters: 15 Vote Loading ...	Which frameworks do you use to test your web frontend? We use no test automation (92%, 12 Votes) Selenium (8%, 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) Total Voters: 13 Vote Loading ...	What tools do you use for site design? Something else (75%, 6 Votes) Code directly to my site, no design tool (25%, 2 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) Total Voters: 8 Vote Loading ...

Enterprise tools trends
You parse your logs using? Something else (100%, 5 Votes) 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) Total Voters: 5 Vote Loading ...	What would describe state of logging infrastructure of your enterprise best? We have no logging infrastructure (100%, 4 Votes) 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) Total Voters: 4 Vote Loading ...

OS Shell trends
Your skill as shell programmer is? No skill (35%, 7 Votes) FreeTime coder (acceptable) (25%, 5 Votes) Developer (good) (15%, 3 Votes) Novice (15%, 3 Votes) Admin (very good) (10%, 2 Votes) Guru (perfect) (0%, 0 Votes) Total Voters: 20 Vote Loading ...	Best shells (or command line language) are? Bash (47%, 9 Votes) Different shell (21%, 4 Votes) Zsh (21%, 4 Votes) Csh (11%, 2 Votes) Power shell (5%, 1 Votes) Ksh (5%, 1 Votes) Lush (0%, 0 Votes) Quicksilver (0%, 0 Votes) IPython (0%, 0 Votes) Rush (0%, 0 Votes) Pash (0%, 0 Votes) Dos cl (0%, 0 Votes) Fish shell (0%, 0 Votes) Total Voters: 19 Vote Loading ...

Software Migration/Upgrade trends
How would you prefer to migrate to new technology? I would prefer different method (94%, 16 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: 17 Vote Loading ...

SQL trends
Which SQL implementations are mostly used in your projects? MySQL (44%, 4 Votes) We don't use SQL (44%, 4 Votes) MS SQL Server (22%, 2 Votes) Oracle (11%, 1 Votes) Standard (0%, 0 Votes) PostgreSQL (0%, 0 Votes) DB2 (0%, 0 Votes) mSQL (0%, 0 Votes) Informix (0%, 0 Votes) Something else (0%, 0 Votes) Total Voters: 9 Vote Loading ...

Digital Copyright trends
Would you buy digitally protected media or software? Never (100%, 6 Votes) 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) Total Voters: 6 Vote Loading ...

Unix trends
Your favorite X-Windows? Don't use X (69%, 9 Votes) GNome (8%, 1 Votes) Kde (8%, 1 Votes) LXDE (8%, 1 Votes) Something else (8%, 1 Votes) Fluxbox (0%, 0 Votes) Enlightenment (0%, 0 Votes) Blackbox (0%, 0 Votes) Xfce (0%, 0 Votes) Total Voters: 13 Vote Loading ...

Java trends
Your favorite Java IDE is? Eclipse (39%, 9 Votes) Something else (39%, 9 Votes) NetBeans IDE (17%, 4 Votes) IntelliJ IDEA (4%, 1 Votes) Borland JBuilder (0%, 0 Votes) JCreator (0%, 0 Votes) Oracle JDeveloper (0%, 0 Votes) Total Voters: 23 Vote Loading ...

Package management trends
Your favorite way to manage packages is? Something else (100%, 9 Votes) 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) Total Voters: 9 Vote Loading ...

Internet trends
Your favorite browser? Firefox (44%, 7 Votes) Something else (31%, 5 Votes) Opera (19%, 3 Votes) Safari (6%, 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) Total Voters: 16 Vote Loading ...

Consumer electronics trends
Most important features for perfect mp3 player are? Smth. else (81%, 13 Votes) Price (13%, 2 Votes) Simple, good usability (13%, 2 Votes) Sound quality (13%, 2 Votes) Brand (cool to own new iPod) (0%, 0 Votes) Design (0%, 0 Votes) Cool features (DNSe, appz, etc) (0%, 0 Votes) Integrates with other things (3rd party created sound system for my mp3 player) (0%, 0 Votes) Physical feats (small, light, flat, etc) (0%, 0 Votes) Extras (good earphones etc) (0%, 0 Votes) Total Voters: 16 Vote Loading ...