In South Africa, the terms "junior developer", "developer" and "senior developer" are used in job ads/specs. I haven't seen the word "programmer" for a while here. Maybe here it's people who work with older technology (mainframes etc) who are called programmers, and people who work with modern technology are called developers.

Overall, I think this is a pointless discussion that gets resurrected by blog writers (or are they "authors") periodically, and doesn't add much to the field.