Last week I posted a quick entry about my presentation at cf.Objective() 2009 on Object-Oriented Design and Modeling. Whether you're planning to attend the conference or not, please spend a minute or two and answer my very short survey on how CF developers view and use OOP:

ColdFusion Developer OOP Survey

Feel free to forward the link around, I'd really like to try and get a wide cross section of people to take it. My hope is to use the results to tailor my presentation, but I'll also post the results online in a week or two for anyone who's interested. Thanks in advance for your help!

Comments Comments (5) | del.ico.us del.icio.us | Digg It! Digg It! | Linking Blogs Linking Blogs | 3727 Views

Comments

  • # Posted By Bradley Moore | 2/9/09 11:48 AM

    How did you learn to program? *
    Both ( marked formal ).
    Formal was in multiple other languages ( LogoWriter in 3rd grade, huzzah ), but very useful overall.

  • # Posted By Peter Boughton | 2/10/09 10:35 AM

    Hmmm, I can't give accurate answers to any of the first page of questions...

    1) c/d
    6.5 years

    2) a/b/c
    Eugh, terrible split....
    - Experimenting, reading and on-the-job training are three very different things.
    - Formal education includes reading and tutorials.
    - There are also plenty of informal tutorials on the web.
    (And I've probably missed something here)

    3) a/b
    Depends which applications you're referring to.
    It is generally the aim for apps at work, but we're not there yet.

    4) n/a
    OOP isn't a concept, it's a collection of concepts.
    Some of the concepts I use, some I don't.
    Which/when can vary depending on what I'm doing.

  • # Posted By Brian Kotek | 2/10/09 3:10 PM

    Peter, the survey is meant to be simple and generalized. Obviously I could have made it 30 questions with 10 possible answers each, but that would defeat the purpose if no one actually wanted to take the time to complete it all. Your comments lead me to believe that you're taking the answers rather rigidly, when what I'm looking for are overall trends:

    For question 1, I just want an idea of whether we're talking about new, intermediate, or long-term users. For 6.5 years, picking 7 would be fine.

    For question 2, my main point is to determine who actually got a Computer Science degree in school vs. people who did not. In that light, experimenting, reading, and tutorials all fall into that category (non college learning).

    For 3, I don't want to know about individual applications, just one's whether CFCs contain the business logic in general.

    For 4, *Anything* is a collection of concepts, including OOP. But I'm not looking for a ton of "shades-of-grey" answers here. Most people have an idea of what OOP means to them, and that's all I'm looking for here.

    Thanks for the comments and taking the time to look at the survey, I hope I've clarified my intent?

  • # Posted By Sean Corfield | 2/25/09 1:23 AM

    Do you plan to publish a summary of the results?

  • # Posted By Brian | 2/25/09 12:11 PM

    Funny you ask Sean, I was just putting together some pie charts of the results in preparation for posting on this, I hope to do it today or tomorrow!