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I lucky enough to be able to buy my own toys so I don't expect anyone to give them to me.
Anyway, it's kind of hard to explain what I like in the geek world so usually I get clothing and sports gear most of the time.
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Buying tech for a developer is stupid - it will almost guaranteed be the wrong thing. We buy our own tech, so we get the exact right stuff. Tech is a bad gift choice for a techie person... tech gift cards on the other hand 
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Exactly... and especially silly for techies who have their own business (hence any tech stuff bought is a tax deduction)...
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I finally convinced my family not to try and buy me tech stuff. If I want it, I probably already have it, or it's too expensive to get as a gift. Once the "snob" comments dissipated, we were all happier.
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I sometimes work on mechanical things -- more of a necessity than a hobby, given that I mow my lawn with a '46 Ford 2N tractor. I'm still trying to convince my wife not to give me tools as gifts. I know what I need, she doesn't.
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I like to buy others backup supplies (USB drives, DVD+RWs) as a gift to myself... it makes my life easier down the road. 
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I agree, that I would not trust my mom to get the correct RAM sticks or parts for my liquid cooling system, but she could certainly pick out an iPad.
Soren Madsen
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Or just toys in general, but I look forward to any responses about Friendship Is Magic.
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Healthy body = Healthy mind.
Healthy mind and clear inspiration = Great work.
Developers in particular underestimate just how much of a burden their bodies and minds are adding to the work load. It's not something that's discussed often enough and the few chances we get are struck down as stereotypes.
All stereotypes begin with a grain of truth. Time to own up to it and do something about it.
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I suppress burdens from my body and mind with an extreme amount of caffeine. Works perfectly since all stereotypes begin with a grain of truth.
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I won't lie... I'm a big fan of caffeine too and in small doses is all fine and good.
But the more you stop those burdens with caffeine, the bigger the burdens tomorrow... and more of the caffeine you will need.
It's sort of a "Runaway Greenhouse Effect" of the body.
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and coupons for a 'dancing' club
Leonardo Paneque
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The obvious missing choice: a cash-card of some sort; preferably not specific to any store. Can't go wrong with choosing the gift if they choose it themselves.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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I believe that fits under the heading of "Other" 
Just because the code works, it doesn't mean that it is good code.
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Computers, peripherals, etc. etc....
But for a passionate developer, give him a good problem to solve and he'd cherish doing that 
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality!!!
http://aniruddhaloya.blogspot.com
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Don't get me wrong I like giving and receiving gifts. But at the same time I think most people are absolutely impossible to shop for. Either what they or I would want is too expensive to give as a gift, or cheap enough that the receiver either already bought it, or doesn't really want it.
There is of course the 3rd category. Stuff where you are getting something that is in the right group of things, but not the exact right thing. "Awesome! You got me a laptop. Oh... what am I going to do with a Mac?"
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Jeremy Hutchinson wrote: Either what they or I would want is too expensive to give as a gift, or cheap enough that the receiver either already bought it,
Yup. I have to restrain my impulse shopping to make sure my family members have affordable options to buy me gifts. It can be annoying at times. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I'm one of those people. So I generally ask for gift cards, generally for a specific store, and pool it all together to get an expensive thing (that's how I've purchased most of my computer).
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you can sell the mac!
Leonardo Paneque
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Sell the Mac and buy something you want.
- Life in the fast lane is only fun if you live in a country with no speed limits.
- Of all the things I have lost, it is my mind that I miss the most.
- I vaguely remember having a good memory...
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i want to buy a Mac, would you like to sell 
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I'm fairly impossible to buy for. Considering I make more money than most or all of my relatives, I probably already have what I want. And anything I do want but don't have is out of their price range (e.g., a Mac).
And I'm extremely picky. For example, my aunt is my only relative who has been able to buy me clothes that I actually like. And I really don't like getting gifts I don't want, because then I feel like I should hold onto it even though it's just taking up space.
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For the sore muscles.
Mankinis, need not apply.
"the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
"No, that is just the earthly manifestation of the Great God Retardon." - Nagy Vilmos (2011)
"It is the celestial scrotum of good luck!" - Nagy Vilmos (2011)
"But you probably have the smoothest scrotum of any grown man" - Pete O'Hanlon (2012)
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...that Bacon should be higher up this list. 
I don't speak Idiot - please talk slowly and clearly
'This space for rent'
Driven to the arms of Heineken by the wife
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Imo every developer MUST have a taste for hardcore gaming. We developers need to relax too
Thanks & Best Regards,
Umer Aziz Malik
Senior Strategy Developer
Aurora Solutions (Pvt) Ltd.
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