Developers Think?

Dr. Dobb’s Journal conducted a survey and came up with 7 things developers think.  Of course, they asked developers, so the developers answered, and CIOs are supposed to use these truths to define their IT strategies.  Huh.

Here’s the abbreviated list from the magazine:

  1. RIAs Are For Real
  2. Wide Use Of Open Source
  3. Virtualization, Cloud Use Evolves
  4. Multilingual Developers Emerge
  5. Young Developers Drawn To Dynamic Languages
  6. Agile Processes Resonate
  7. Developers As An Untapped Source Of Innovation

You want to know what those developers are really thinking?  Here, let QA tell you:

  1. RIAs Are For Real
    I need to get RIA work on my resume.  Can we do something with them?
  2. Wide Use Of Open Source
    I have no budget.  Alternatively, I started using this stuff when I was in college because I had no budget then, and we’re going to use it now even though more robust solutions are available because I’m comfortable with them.  Also, I can get bits and pieces of the application I’m writing from some server in the Czech Republic for free, and by the time you’re sued for using it without paying for it/the Russians steal not only our customers’ identities but some of their pets as well, I will be using my RIA experience in a higher paying architect position.
  3. Virtualization, Cloud Use Evolves
    Cloud is awesome because I can just slam code up there without putting it through a build process/testing/a second thought at all.
  4. Multilingual Developers Emerge
    I’ve been job hopping so much, I don’t have time nor the attention span to actually learn a single language enough to learn it thoroughly.
  5. Young Developers Drawn To Dynamic Languages
    Hey!  Something shiny! 
  6. Agile Processes Resonate
    Formalizing all the foolish, thoughtless, and unforesighted things I would normally do?  Sign me up!  I’ll call it agile, and the business interests won’t know the difference.
  7. Developers As An Untapped Source Of Innovation
    I am a genius, like Ricola Tesla.  Listen to me, and make me an executive, now, you twit!

There, now you know.  And you can discard whatever a developer tells you and get on with business.

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