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6 Sep 2010 - 13 Sep 2010	What's the best way to make money through programming? As much as we'd love to do what we do for free, our landlord can be very insistent on getting paid.	611
30 Aug 2010 - 6 Sep 2010	For which consumer gadgets do you currently (or plan to) develop? Half the fun of owning a gadget is bending it to your will.	450
23 Aug 2010 - 30 Aug 2010	How do you backup your data? You do backup your data, right?	792
16 Aug 2010 - 23 Aug 2010	When a project has cryptographic requirements, who is responsible for cryptographic design and analysis of overall system security? Making sure your data can't be read is sometimes just as important as making sure it can be read.	503
9 Aug 2010 - 16 Aug 2010	What features are important in the car you drive? What you drive evidently says a lot about you. What's the verdict on us developers?	744
2 Aug 2010 - 9 Aug 2010	Do you work on, or otherwise use, a virtual machines? VMWare, parallels, or even a virtualised server solution in a hosted environment. Do you abstract out the hardware?	809
26 Jul 2010 - 2 Aug 2010	Do you ever add jokes in code comments? Maybe you're a frustrated comedian, maybe you know your co-worker will get a kick and maybe you're just bored. Do you do it?	948
19 Jul 2010 - 26 Jul 2010	Do you comment your code? Some preach that good code requires no comments, while others preach that (good) comments can be as valuable as the code itself. On which part of the spectrum do you lie?	833
12 Jul 2010 - 19 Jul 2010	Do you have a dress code at work? It's been a while since we asked this one.	959
5 Jul 2010 - 12 Jul 2010	Parallelising your code. Do you do it? Our CPUs aren't getting as fast as fast as they used to, and we're now well and truly in a multi-core world. What do you do to take advantage of this? (Suggested by El Corazon)	637
28 Jun 2010 - 5 Jul 2010	What do you think will be your next primary portable computer? "Primary portable" meaning "the portable computer you will mainly use for work or productivity when needing a portable computer". Flows right off the tongue, no?	1041
21 Jun 2010 - 28 Jun 2010	Soft tabs (spaces) or Hard tabs (CHAR(9)) in your source code? Religous wars have been fought over lesser topics. (Suggested by Kornman00)	898
14 Jun 2010 - 21 Jun 2010	When the customer is wrong, what do you do? What do you do when the customer asks for a feature, a fix, or makes a call that is complete and utter nonsense?	776
7 Jun 2010 - 14 Jun 2010	Will you be using an iPad in the future, and if so, where? They're out in the wild, but will you, yourself, actually be in a position to use one for work or pleasure?	939
31 May 2010 - 7 Jun 2010	Which versions of Visual Studio are you using? For our C++, VB and .NET developers: Are you still on your tried-and-true version, or have you moved onwards and upwards?	1499
24 May 2010 - 31 May 2010	How much of a problem is the lack of intellisense for C++/CLI in VS2010 for you? The word is it will be added back, either as a service pack or in the next release, but time constraints meant it had to go. Survey suggested by Ian Lindsey.	822
17 May 2010 - 24 May 2010	Compile-time Language Type Safety: a help or a hindrence? C++ has pointers, .NET 'object', C# 4 has the 'dynamic' keyword, VB 'Dim', Javscript 'var', just to name a few. Do the benefits of mixing and matching types outweight the protections that compile-time strong typing brings?	703
10 May 2010 - 17 May 2010	How often do you use automated code generators for production code? They've got their pros and cons. Suggested by Shahriar Iqbal Chowdhury.	791
3 May 2010 - 10 May 2010	What kind of MSDN Subscription do you have? MSDN has certainly evolved over the years. Do you get, still get, or no longer get an MSDN subscription, and if so, which?	793
26 Apr 2010 - 3 May 2010	Will you move to .NET 4? The next installment of .NET is out in the wild. However, will you be targeting it?	954