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Weekly Poll: Spring Modules

For this week's poll, we wondered which modules were the most useful in the Spring framework. I've compiled a list of 28 Spring modules, and, this time, all...

2 replies - 8737 views - 02/01/13 by Bill Armstrong in Articles

Weekly Poll: Preferred Professional Contact Method

After reading Jurgen Appelo's reflections on not answering the phone, we began to wonder what method DZone's audience prefers to be contacted through, when it...

0 replies - 4882 views - 01/25/13 by Bill Armstrong in Articles

Weekly Poll: JSON vs XML

 To start off this year's weekly polls, we want to know, given your typical use case, whether you prefer to use JSON or XML, if those were the only two...

2 replies - 7787 views - 01/04/13 by Bill Armstrong in Articles

Weekly Poll: Open Source in 2012

As we head toward the end of the year, we began wondering what the most significant achievements and trends in the tech industry have been during 2012. The...

0 replies - 5601 views - 12/21/12 by Bill Armstrong in Articles

Weekly Poll: Hardware of 2012

As we head toward the end of the year, we began wondering what the most significant achievements in the tech industry have been during 2012. The next few...

0 replies - 6574 views - 12/14/12 by Bill Armstrong in Articles

Weekly Poll: Cloud Experience

According to research done earlier this year (which you can see here), DZone members expect their infrastructure in the cloud to double in the next couple...

0 replies - 6080 views - 12/07/12 by Bill Armstrong in Articles

Weekly Poll: Music for Developers

Here at DZone Headquarters, nearly every office has music playing all day, every day. The sales team (for obvious reasons) doesn't always follow this...

0 replies - 6650 views - 11/30/12 by Bill Armstrong in Articles

Weekly Poll: The CI Landscape

For this week's poll, we're taking a look at continuous integration servers and what we use them for. You'll get to review results instantly after submission....

1 replies - 7773 views - 11/15/12 by Bill Armstrong in Articles

Weekly Poll: Kirk vs. Picard; Refcardz!

This week, you get not one, but TWO weekly polls. One is displayed as usual, and will give instant results, like normal. It's at the bottom of this page and...

0 replies - 8481 views - 11/08/12 by Bill Armstrong in Articles

Weekly Poll: Sans JVM?

A few weeks ago, we asked which programming language you'd use if Java weren't an option. JVM languages, especially Scala and Groovy, were the overwhelming...

6 replies - 9189 views - 11/02/12 by Bill Armstrong in Articles

Weekly Poll: In a World where Java was no more. . .

Java is the bread and butter of many programmers on DZone. We don't think that a bakery strike would lead to mass starvation, though. We'd find something else...

7 replies - 8880 views - 10/14/12 by Bill Armstrong in Articles

JavaOne 2012: Custom Static Code Analysis [NetBeans]

I returned to the Hilton (Continental Ballroom 4) to attend Jan Lahoda's (Oracle/NetBeans) Birds-of-a-Feather presentation "Custom Static Code...

0 replies - 3624 views - 10/03/12 by Dustin Marx in Articles

Weekly Poll: Where Do Developers Hang Out Online?

In this day and age, we can't deny that we rely on social networking to let us know what's going on in the world. Given the variety of options available to the...

2 replies - 7859 views - 09/27/12 by Bill Armstrong in Articles

Weekly Poll: Scala, Friend or Foe? What's DZone's Consensus?

There's been some interesting news in the last week about Scala, and we thought the community would be curious to find out just how many of us have used Scala,...

0 replies - 10410 views - 09/21/12 by Bill Armstrong in Articles