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Where are developers hanging out online these days?

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Ken Egervari
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Hi everyone,

I've noticed a big trend in the Java community (as a whole, not a specific group) that they tend to not be on the Internet in the droves that they used to be a few years ago. It is not uncommon to see Hibernate, Spring, etc. forums virtually dead, and most posts have only a handful of views over 7 days.

I'm curious - what has happened? Where are the developers? Are they using other technologies? Are they so stable nobody cares but they still use them? Is the industry so slow that there's a small % of us left?

Would appreciate some credible insight. Thanks!

Ken
Ishaaq Chandy
Joined: 2009-02-16,
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Re: Where are developers hanging out online these days?
Wouldn't be ironic if no-one answered your post?

Oops! I just eliminated that scenario.

Ishaaq

On 16 March 2010 19:17, Ken Egervari <ken.egervari@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi everyone,

I've noticed a big trend in the Java community (as a whole, not a specific group) that they tend to not be on the Internet in the droves that they used to be a few years ago. It is not uncommon to see Hibernate, Spring, etc. forums virtually dead, and most posts have only a handful of views over 7 days.

I'm curious - what has happened? Where are the developers? Are they using other technologies? Are they so stable nobody cares but they still use them? Is the industry so slow that there's a small % of us left?

Would appreciate some credible insight. Thanks!

Ken

Viktor Klang
Joined: 2008-12-17,
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Re: Where are developers hanging out online these days?


On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Ken Egervari <ken.egervari@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi everyone,

I've noticed a big trend in the Java community (as a whole, not a specific group) that they tend to not be on the Internet in the droves that they used to be a few years ago. It is not uncommon to see Hibernate, Spring, etc. forums virtually dead, and most posts have only a handful of views over 7 days.

I'm curious - what has happened? Where are the developers? Are they using other technologies? Are they so stable nobody cares but they still use them? Is the industry so slow that there's a small % of us left?

Would appreciate some credible insight. Thanks!

I'd see that as: The products are more mature and there's more and higher quality documentation

I mean, why spend time waiting for a response if I can google the answer in 10 seconds?
 

Ken



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Tony Morris 2
Joined: 2009-03-20,
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Re: Where are developers hanging out online these days?

Dammit he found us. Where to next guys?

Viktor Klang wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Ken Egervari > wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I've noticed a big trend in the Java community (as a whole, not a
> specific group) that they tend to not be on the Internet in the
> droves that they used to be a few years ago. It is not uncommon to
> see Hibernate, Spring, etc. forums virtually dead, and most posts
> have only a handful of views over 7 days.
>
> I'm curious - what has happened? Where are the developers? Are
> they using other technologies? Are they so stable nobody cares but
> they still use them? Is the industry so slow that there's a small
> % of us left?
>
> Would appreciate some credible insight. Thanks!
>
>
> I'd see that as: The products are more mature and there's more and
> higher quality documentation
>
> I mean, why spend time waiting for a response if I can google the
> answer in 10 seconds?
>
>
>
> Ken
>
>
>
>

Viktor Klang
Joined: 2008-12-17,
User offline. Last seen 1 year 27 weeks ago.
Re: Where are developers hanging out online these days?


On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Tony Morris <tonymorris@gmail.com> wrote:
Dammit he found us. Where to next guys?

Rendevouz at the COBOL for dummies forums.
 

Viktor Klang wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Ken Egervari <ken.egervari@gmail.com
> <mailto:ken.egervari@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi everyone,
>
>     I've noticed a big trend in the Java community (as a whole, not a
>     specific group) that they tend to not be on the Internet in the
>     droves that they used to be a few years ago. It is not uncommon to
>     see Hibernate, Spring, etc. forums virtually dead, and most posts
>     have only a handful of views over 7 days.
>
>     I'm curious - what has happened? Where are the developers? Are
>     they using other technologies? Are they so stable nobody cares but
>     they still use them? Is the industry so slow that there's a small
>     % of us left?
>
>     Would appreciate some credible insight. Thanks!
>
>
> I'd see that as: The products are more mature and there's more and
> higher quality documentation
>
> I mean, why spend time waiting for a response if I can google the
> answer in 10 seconds?
>
>
>
>     Ken
>
>
>
>
> --
> Viktor Klang
> | "A complex system that works is invariably
> | found to have evolved from a simple system
> | that worked." - John Gall
>
> Akka - the Actor Kernel: Akkasource.org
> Twttr: twitter.com/viktorklang <http://twitter.com/viktorklang>

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| found to have evolved from a simple system
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dcsobral
Joined: 2009-04-23,
User offline. Last seen 38 weeks 5 days ago.
Re: Where are developers hanging out online these days?
There's a lot of people on Stack Overflow, for whatever that is worth. But I suspect most of these people will be found on Clojure and Scala forums, on whatever new frameworks are up and about, etc. Or, rather, people _like_ them, as once you get a senior job position, marry and have kids, few people manage to keep up with these things.

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 5:17 AM, Ken Egervari <ken.egervari@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi everyone,

I've noticed a big trend in the Java community (as a whole, not a specific group) that they tend to not be on the Internet in the droves that they used to be a few years ago. It is not uncommon to see Hibernate, Spring, etc. forums virtually dead, and most posts have only a handful of views over 7 days.

I'm curious - what has happened? Where are the developers? Are they using other technologies? Are they so stable nobody cares but they still use them? Is the industry so slow that there's a small % of us left?

Would appreciate some credible insight. Thanks!

Ken



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