{"id":620,"date":"2010-01-21T08:40:50","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T20:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/?p=620"},"modified":"2010-01-21T08:42:31","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T20:42:31","slug":"working-day-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/posts\/620\/","title":{"rendered":"Working Day Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">[Estimated Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">&lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes]<\/span><\/span><p>Prompted by a recent question\/survey thread on the NZ DUG mailing list, I&#8217;ve posted a new poll (see panel, left) seeking to gain a picture of the working day of Delphi software development professionals. \u00a0The nature of the questions mean it&#8217;s an unavoidably wordy poll, but I&#8217;ve tried to keep it as manageable as possible whilst also providing some useful insight into what we are doing and with what tools.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve already completed the poll with my answers reflecting my working day here at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flowsoftware.co.nz\">Flow<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The results could be interesting and the more people contribute the more useful it will be, so tell all your Delphi friends. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">[Estimated Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">&lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes]<\/span><\/span> Prompted by a recent question\/survey thread on the NZ DUG mailing list, I&#8217;ve posted a new poll (see panel, left) seeking to gain a picture of the working day of Delphi software development professionals. \u00a0The nature of the questions mean it&#8217;s an unavoidably wordy poll, but I&#8217;ve tried to keep it as manageable as possible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[4],"tags":[292,98],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1TKYv-a0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":194,"url":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/posts\/194\/","url_meta":{"origin":620,"position":0},"title":"Another Week, Another Poll","date":"17 Aug 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Last weeks poll asked which was your first Delphi version.\u00a0 It may or may not come as a surprise that the results essentially provided a list of Delphi versions largely sorted by age. 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