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Flash Under Fire: Are you using HTML5/JavaScript Exclusively? Adobe’s Flash has come under scrutiny in the past week, with Firefox blocking it in all browsers for a short time, and Facebook’s chief security officer calling for the company to announce the end-of-life date for Flash. 3

JavaScript Frameworks in the Real World JavaScript frameworks can be an essential tool for advanced JavaScript programming. While one could do everything needed purely with just the JavaScript code without the need of a framework, both they and JavaScript libraries provide some very useful foundations to build on. 11

How Do You Unit Test Your JavaScript Code? Recently, we asked you about your JavaScript testing approaches, and your responses showed Unit Testing Tools as the most popular. To follow up, we now want to know which unit testing tools you use. 2

JavaScript Testing Approaches ​​​Testing, taken in the loosest sense of the word, is widely agreed to be a positive thing, bestowing various benefits, including allowing us to better understand our code, and identifying bugs. What we're wondering is how you are testing JavaScript code -- if indeed you are even testing ​at all. Vote for Functional Testing, Unit Testing Tools, Test Automation Frameworks, or not testing. 3

What's Your Technology Stack to Create Mobile Apps? Since the impact of mobile applications is ubiquitous in the whole it industry, there are numerous ways to create an app. In this community-driven research initiative, we are examining the importance and adoption level of different tools and toolstacks to create a mobile application. 7

What Puzzles You Most About Functional Programming? With so much diversity, it’s hard to define the exact scope of what exactly functional programming is. Is it a question of how to design your program, that is, using functions as the primary abstraction? Or is it about programming with mathematical functions, meaning pure functions that do not have side effects? And what are those monads again? 6