Date |
Survey |
# |
5 Sep 2005 - 11 Sep 2005 |
Do you exercise to keep fit?
Do programmers fall into the stereotype of the pizza-eating man-mountain or are we lean, mean, coding machines? (suggested by Ashley)
|
1287 |
29 Aug 2005 - 4 Sep 2005 |
Do you have formal coding guidelines in your company?
Do you have guidelines explaining coding standards such as naming conventions, error handling and inline documentation requirements, or is it every man for themselves?
|
1028 |
22 Aug 2005 - 28 Aug 2005 |
What forms of online programming help are most useful?
Articles, code snippets, starter kits and forums are all helpful - but which ones do you feel help you the most?
|
1641 |
15 Aug 2005 - 21 Aug 2005 |
Will you be attending PDC 2005?
PDC is coming up fast. Will you be among the hordes? Please comment on your answer.
|
817 |
8 Aug 2005 - 14 Aug 2005 |
What background makes the best programmer?
Many of us came to programming from different directions. What do you think is the best way? (suggested by Bill Gammill)
|
1624 |
1 Aug 2005 - 7 Aug 2005 |
Does your company include security back-doors in its software?
In light of the recent WGA "by-pass switch" slip-up by Microsoft, does your company include security overrides (by-pass) in its software? (suggested by Doug Troy)
|
825 |
25 Jul 2005 - 31 Jul 2005 |
Do you use Ad blocking software?
Free sites typically use advertising to pay the bills. Ads can be useful and informative or annoying and malicious. Do you block ads?
|
1113 |
18 Jul 2005 - 24 Jul 2005 |
Where do you solve your hardest work related problems?
As developers we can be a little obsessed with our work -so much so we can be working 24 hours a day (suggested by Bob).
|
1212 |
11 Jul 2005 - 17 Jul 2005 |
Which education options were the most valuable for your job?
Assuming you're working, how valuable were each of these types of education to you?
|
983 |
4 Jul 2005 - 10 Jul 2005 |
How much do you read in your leisure time?
In your spare time (look it up in a dictionary if you're not familiar with the term) how much non-work related reading do you do?
|
1209 |
27 Jun 2005 - 3 Jul 2005 |
How smart are your co-workers?
The intelligence of those you work with can have a big impact on your work. What bucket do those your work with directly fall into?
|
1025 |
20 Jun 2005 - 26 Jun 2005 |
How do you mostly participate in CodeProject?
There's a lot to do on CodeProject and we like to ensure we're focussing energy in the right places.
|
923 |
13 Jun 2005 - 19 Jun 2005 |
For which Platforms do you develop?
Targeting multiple platforms is getting easier with each generation of developer tools. Are you spreading your wings?
|
1551 |
6 Jun 2005 - 12 Jun 2005 |
How much time are you spending supporting legacy code?
There's a lot of it around. How much time are you spending caring for old code?
|
1057 |
30 May 2005 - 5 Jun 2005 |
Do you use a non-admin account when developing software?
Writing and testing code as a non-admin helps to produce software that satisfies the principal of least privilege. (suggested by Charlie Williams)
|
1169 |
23 May 2005 - 29 May 2005 |
What type of cell/mobile phone do you have?
Phones are getting more powerful each day but it'll be a long time before there's a common standard. Which do you have?
|
1272 |
16 May 2005 - 22 May 2005 |
Are you happy in your current IT job?
For those working in IT: are you enoying yourselves? (suggested by Vikram Punathambekar)
|
1482 |
9 May 2005 - 15 May 2005 |
Do you use C# style XML comments when programming?
XML comments make documentation easy and they don't have to be reserved for C# only. Regardless of your programming language, do you use XML comments? (suggested by Matthias Steinbart)
|
1249 |
2 May 2005 - 8 May 2005 |
Do you write CLS-compliant code?
Writing CLS-compliant means, among other things, no underscores in variable names, no unsigned integers and case insensivity in naming. Do you bother?
|
1206 |
25 Apr 2005 - 1 May 2005 |
Would you like to see MFC ported to .NET?
There's a lot of MFC code and expertise around, but does it make sense to port MFC to .NET?
|
1429 |