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iDevBlogADay Reader Survey Results

The iDevBlogADay survey I posted was available for 3 weeks, and received 109 entries. Thanks to all those who filled it out, hopefully this information will be of use and/or interest to the community. Here's the info:

Q1: Please select the description that best applies to you regarding your mobile development experience.





Q2: Please select the description that best applies to you regarding server side development.





Q3: Please select the description that best applies to you regarding server administration.





Q4: Please select the description that best applies to you regarding your source code.





Q5: Which of the following are you interested in learning more about?





Q6: Which do you prefer?



 

Due to upcoming changes in the way iDevBlogADay is going to operate, I may be rotated out of active duty shortly in order to make room for some new blood. If you've enjoyed my previous posts, and would like to read my upcoming ones that will make use of the above info, please follow me on Twitter: @CerebralGardens.


This post is part of iDevBlogADay, a group of indie iPhone development blogs featuring two posts per day. You can keep up with iDevBlogADay through the web site, RSS feed, or Twitter.

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A Different Numbers Post

For this week's iDevBlogADay post, I'm going to give you some numbers. A different set of numbers than usual, not sales numbers (unfortunately they've not been interesting enough to publish yet); I'm going to give you the number of visits to my other iDevBlogADay posts so far.

I love being a part of the iDevBlogADay rotation, it's forcing me to write and communicate more with the iOS community (I'm usually a very quiet person). I appreciate the opportunity to be able to give a little something back. To that end, I want to maximize the reach and the impact of the little that I do get to write. So, following the numbers, I'm going to have a tiny survey for you. I'll publish the results next week and then use the information gained to create a series of posts that should interest and help, the most people.

Here are my numbers so far (all stats current as of Jan 30th, 2011).

Dec 26 2010 Discussion - Apple's App Store Policy Against Name Squatting 695
Jan 02 2011 Discussion - Reducing App Store Piracy 1028
Jan 09 2011 Open Source, the GPL, and the App Store 740
Jan 16 2011 iDev Tips & Tricks 1947
Jan 23 2011 TestFlight your Apps 980

The most successful post (judging solely on web traffic) was the Tips & Tricks post. By far, nearly double the traffic of the second most popular post about reducing piracy. The Tips post had a tonne of people tweeting the link.

My theory, is that the Tips post had 9 pretty different tips, and so there was 9 times as many chances for a topic to be interesting to someone. That's why it was linked to more often than the others. The second, regarded piracy, a topic almost every developer is concerned with.

I have no idea if the stats I'm seeing are similar to others, I only have about 200 followers on Twitter, which is pretty low. But then again, I don't say much, so it's not surprising.

So, please help me by answering the 6 questions in this survey so that I can write on topics that are the most interesting to you!

Thanks!


This post is part of iDevBlogADay, a group of indie iPhone development blogs featuring two posts per day. You can keep up with iDevBlogADay through the web site, RSS feed, or Twitter.

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