POLL: Jetbrain's Python (Results)

• 100% Already own it
• 0% Going to buy it
• 0% Not interested
• 0% What is PyCharm?

POLL: Oracle owning SUN (Results)

• 45% is good for Java
• 27% is bad for Java
• 27% should not affect Java

POLL: I program at home/work (Results)

• 60% *nix/Windows
• 20% *nix/*nix
• 20% Windows/*nix
• 0% Windows/Windows

POLL: My last vacation I worked (Results)

• 40% 0-1 hours per day
• 20% 4-5 hours per day
• 20% 6-7 hours per day
• 20% What Vacation!
• 0% 2-3 hours per day

POLL: Favorite Programmers Editor (Results)

• 53% vi/vim/gvim
• 38% emacs
• 23% gedit
• 23% other
• 15% notepad++
• 15% fancy IDE

POLL: To me, a netbook is.... (Results)

• 20% say "to small for me"
• 20% say "only good for travel"
• 20% say "perfect if it runs Windows"
• 40% say "perfect if it runs Ubuntu"
  

POLL: If you could only have one scripting language? (Results)

• 38% Python
• 30% Ruby
• 15% Perl
• 7% bash
• 7% VBA
• 0% Groovy
• 0% csh

POLL: How was your Fedora 11 Upgrade? (Results)

• 52% I use Ubuntu
• 19% Hell on Earth
  
• 19% I did a clean install
• 9% Easy and smooth
• 0% A little rough
  
  
  

POLL: What Persistance Engine Do you Use? (Results)

• 50% Java Persistence API
• 37% Hibernate (Java)
• 25% NHibernate (.NET)
• 0% LINQ (.NET) 0 (0%)
• 12% ActiveRecord (Ruby)
• 12% Other

Poll closed 04/02/2009

POLL: What JAVA Do you use? (Results)

This was not much of a surprise. SUN Java is the way to go. I just hope Oracle continues the to support JAVA like SUN did.

• 90% SUN Java (linux/Windows)
• 5% OpenJDK
• 0% SUN Java (OSX)
• 5% IcedTea (linux)

Poll Close 04/24/2009

POLL: What Languages do you code in? (Results)

It doesn't come as much surprise how many Java programmers are out there. I am also happy to see so many Ruby developers.

• 89% Java
• 36% C/C++
• 24% C#
• 16% Perl
• 14% Ruby
• 12% Python
• 8% Assembler
• 4% VB
• 0% Objective-C
• 0% ADA
• 0% COBOL
• 0% LISP

Poll closed 11/09/2008

POLL: What build system do you use? (Results)

I am pretty surprised how many people use Maven. I am hoping to get it to work better for Swing apps then it does.

• 75% Ant
• 25% Maven
• 25% Other
• 16% make/imake/nmake

Poll closed October 9, 2008

POLL: What OS do you develop JAVA on? (Results)

Ubuntu is really getting up there in Java Developers.

• 34% Windows XP
• 27% Linux (Ubuntu)
• 27% OSX 10.5
• 10% Linux (Fedora)
• 10% Linux (SUSE)
• 10% Linux
• 13% Windows Vista
• 06% Other
• 00% OSX 10.x
  

Poll closed June 28, 2008

POLL: What Version of Netbeans do you use? (Results)

Here are the results from our poll of Netbeans version used.

• 73% 6.0
• 19% I don't use Netbeans
• 14% 5.5/5.5.1
• 03% 5.0
• 01% 4.x

Poll closed March 31 2008

POLL: Standard Projects you work on? (Results)

Of all the developers working on projects, the following gives a breakdown. Note that users could vote on more then one type so the total will be greater then 100%

• 70% Swing/GUI
• 40% WEB/JSP
• 40% Console
• 30% Mobile Devices

POLL: What is your favorite IDE (Results)

After several month of polling the favorite IDE results in in.

• 65% Netbeans
• 30% Eclipse
• 2% Microsoft Visual Studio
• 2% IBM Visual Age

Granted, many of my blog entries are tagged with Netbeans but even more are tagged with Java. For this reason, the results should be taken with a grain of salt. Still, it was nice to see so many people vote.