{"id":887,"date":"2012-08-03T17:02:09","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T22:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/dberkholz\/?p=887"},"modified":"2013-04-19T21:28:38","modified_gmt":"2013-04-20T02:28:38","slug":"do-developers-really-love-beer-or-is-it-just-a-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/dberkholz\/2012\/08\/03\/do-developers-really-love-beer-or-is-it-just-a-myth\/","title":{"rendered":"Do developers really love beer, or is it just a myth?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year, PHP company Zend started running a regular survey<\/a> about what developers care about and do (tools, processes, cloud, etc.), and the latest “bonus” question was about beer preferences, which I discovered thanks to James<\/a>. Which as you can imagine, we care deeply about here at RedMonk since we run conferences<\/a> about the intersection of tech, social, and beer. Since I’m not a fan of 3D bar graphs (to put it politely), I made my own using their data:<\/p>\n

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As you can see, the vast majority of developers enjoy beer<\/strong>. Shocker? No. But it’s good to validate your assumptions from time to time<\/strong>. The truly sad part is that the #1 beer of choice was Heineken. Also on the top 5 were Budweiser and Corona. At least the developers taking the survey redeemed themselves slightly with Guinness and Stella Artois. If you make it to the Monktoberfest<\/a>, you’ll enjoy beers that are orders of magnitude superior to even the best of that list.<\/p>\n

I’m participating in RedMonk’s annual August vacation<\/a>, so I will return with VMworld, LinuxCon, and CloudOpen in late August. If you absolutely must reach me, send email to interruptingdonniesvacation@gmail.com<\/a>. Till then!<\/p>\n

Disclosure: Zend, VMware, and the Linux Foundation are clients.<\/em><\/p>\n

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