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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 - 8688 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 - 4852 views - 01/25/13 by Bill Armstrong in Articles

The Truth About PaaS Vertical Scaling and Why You are Being "Oversold"

As you know, Jelastic PaaS has automatic vertical scaling, which allows you to pay less -- to pay for your actual resource...

1 replies - 6317 views - 01/24/13 by Ruslan Synytsky in Articles

Weekly Poll: Development in 2013

For the finale in our "End of 2012" series, we want to know what the DZone audience thinks is going to be big in 2013. You'll get to see the instant results...

0 replies - 9446 views - 12/28/12 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 - 6545 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 - 6054 views - 12/07/12 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 - 7733 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 - 8442 views - 11/08/12 by Bill Armstrong in Articles

We Need a Programmer for President

Tomorrow is the general election day in the USA.  If you've seen any of the debates or the rhetoric leading up to this year's election you've...

1 replies - 31957 views - 11/05/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Weekly Poll: Windows 8... When?

Today's Windows 8 release got us wondering, "When did we actually start using Windows 7?" I, personally, got my Windows 7 key pre-release from being a member...

12 replies - 9532 views - 10/25/12 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 - 8839 views - 10/14/12 by Bill Armstrong 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 - 7834 views - 09/27/12 by Bill Armstrong in Articles

How Much Longer Will Computer Science Departments Last?

The first computer scientists resided in math departments. When universities began to form computer science departments, there was some discussion over how...

0 replies - 6282 views - 09/21/12 by John Cook 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 - 10385 views - 09/21/12 by Bill Armstrong in Articles

Poll: Why is Development 'Performance-Driven'?

It won't be surprising for most of us to find out that the thing the average dev cares most about in a computer is performance: CPU power,...

0 replies - 8010 views - 09/13/12 by Bill Armstrong in Articles