I now have 42 answers. I think 42 is a good number.
My survey had 4 open questions. Some of you entered very specific
and personal information. I will try to not include personal
information in the results. But I am very thankful for your confidence
and the details you shared with me.
Since how long do you use smart cards?
Since how long do you use smart cards?
#
< 1 year
4
1 to 5 years
7
6 to 10 years
10
11 to 15 years
4
16 to 20 years
5
> 20 years
11
I am surprised to have so many users of smart cards for such a long time.
Maybe I should have been more explicit in my question. I have been using
smart cards myself since around 1990 with French public phone cards and
bank cards as a normal user. My question was more, since when do you use
smart cards as a professional?.
It is interesting to see very experienced smart card users and also all
the possible groups of experiences.
Since how long do you read my blog?
Since how long do you read my blog?
#
< 1 year
10
1 to 5 years
8
6 to 10 years
10
11 to 15 years
10
> 16 years
3
This question has a trap. My blog started in 2000, so the oldest article
is 15 years old. It is not possible to read it since more than 16 years.
The distribution of results is fairly even.
What is your activity?
What is your activity?
#
%
developer
32
78,0 %
Other
10
24,4 %
project manager
5
12,2 %
sales
1
2,4 %
CEO
1
2,4 %
With no real surprise, the vast majority of my readers are developers.
This is not surprising since the majority of the blog content is about
programs and programming interfaces.
In the "other" category, we have:
sysadmin
manufacturer
functional and technical expert
driver packager
How do you read/find my blog?
How do you read/find my blog?
#
%
Redirected by a search engine
17
41,5 %
Redirected by an email
13
31,7 %
RSS feed
9
22,0 %
Redirected from a web page
9
22,0 %
Other
5
12,2 %
Many readers find the articles using a search engine. I guess it's the
normal way to find a solution to a problem or some documentation.
I will continue to include references to my blog articles in the emails I
send. I find that writing a blog article is a good way to not write
again and again the same thing.
Firefox Update Scanner (maybe the RSS feed could be used instead?)
What content do you like?
What content do you like?
#
%
technical explanation of a new feature
39
95,1 %
new software release announcement
25
61,0 %
how to use a function
21
51,2 %
sample codes
20
48,8 %
macOS issues
17
41,5 %
Windows issues
13
31,7 %
pictures of my holidays
4
9,8 %
No surprise, with a large part of developers, the main interest is in
technical explanations and new software announcements.
I am happy to see that few people are looking for content about Windows
issues.
Some people are looking for news about my holidays. That is nice, but I
do not plan to share many photos here. Great game contest: Where was
the picture below taken?
Free form
Thanks for your answers in the free forms.
What content would you like to find on my blog?
In no specific order:
news about pcsc-lite
more details about PC/SC and Smartcard
sample code and technical explanations
Yes, of course.
more card specific stuff like reading passport information or
discussing a bit about EMV processing
My expertise lies more in PKI cards. I agree that it's interesting to have
more details on common cards like EMV, passport or ID cards.
chart of specifics/features/bugs between smartcard readers, cards and
OS/driver versions
I started in the smart card industry in 1997. At first, it was
difficult to use a smart card on a GNU/Linux system. I started by
writing a driver for a serial smart card reader, then submitted
patches to pcsc-lite and continued developing different smart card
related software.
Conclusion
Do not expect posts about my holidays or my life.
I will continue to publish technical articles. If you know about a subject
and want to share your knowledge, I am open to co-author articles. If you
wrote a Free Software program or library that uses a smart card, I can
take a look and write about it.
In any case you can contact me. My e-mail address is available from
About me.
RSS (RDF Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication) is a web feed
that allows users and applications to access updates to websites in
a standardized, computer-readable format. Subscribing to RSS feeds
can allow a user to keep track of many different websites in a
single news aggregator, which constantly monitors sites for new
content, removing the need for the user to manually check them. News
aggregators (or "RSS readers") can be built into a browser,
installed on a desktop computer, or installed on a mobile device.
If you don't want to miss any article from my blog then RSS is a very
good solution for that.
For example I use NewsBlur to read my
different RSS feeds either on my desktop browsers or on my smart phone.
NewsBlur manages the status of all the articles so I do not see again an
article I have already read.
You can also use RSS Parot (Turn Mastodon
into your feed reader) if you want to be notified on your Fediverse account (Mastodon for
example) of new publications.
I prepared a short survey at blog.apdu.fr readers (thanks to
Framasoft for the
survey/Framaforms service). Please take a
few minutes to answer the survey so I can improve the blog.
I plan to keep the survey open for about one month. After that I will
publish a summary here. If you want me to keep your answers private
please indicate it.
