The darling of software developers--social networking

Software application developers are starting to love community networks enthusiastically. The presence of forums, development groups, user groups and now social networks has brought together many developers to form an intrinsic component.

But why did it become so?

Perhaps this may be an untrusted technology for a vendor, and this allows the engineers to get together for discussion. Another reason is that they feel they speak the language only the people within their own community can understand, so they come together. Or, simply because they need a calmer way to keep in touch with their friends.

From the early BBS bulletin board to the present, to enable users to share and exchange information and other files through the network, now, through the social network forums can know what our friends are doing, and these "collaboration systems" are increasingly popular with developers.

Social networks were first offered a service option by suppliers to their website developer projects, so the information at the time was mostly "knowledge base" (Knowledge Base). But now two-thirds of developers want the interface of social networking to be embedded in a wide range of developers ' Web sites.

These are the results of Evans Data's 2012 survey of developers.

The survey, conducted by more than 400 developers, showed that development activities on social networks over the past two years had increased by 60%, with at least 74% of developers visiting social networks more than once a week.

"Social networks have changed the landscape of the current web, and developers have embraced the paradigm of this social network." Janel Garvin, chief executive of Evans data, said, "in the past two years, the social functions of software developers have provided more and more help, and now any developer should be aware of this and provide this functionality to developers to actively promote common social progress." ”

Surveys show that the main features of social networking among developers are:

Actively communicate and collaborate, such as blogs;

Actively chatting in a community;

tags, notepad, and bookmarks are important.