If the bean counters want to quantify that, you might be well advised to find some new bean counters. ; ) My opinion is that language idioms are pretty simple, but core development concepts are quite complex. As such, I'd generally rather hire a developer with experience building the types of applications I'm building in a different language over a CF developer who is new to the arena I'm building apps in.
Quantifying the relevance of the experience is what it's all about. It's entirely possible that a newby with CS degree and no real-world experience will be a better fit than an experienced senior developer. They might take slightly more spinup time (specifically to learn the language), but LOC is only one measure of productivity, and it's a generally low-value one. cheers, barneyb On 5/16/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This may be OT, however I would appreciate your opinion, realizing this > is hard to quantify and purely speculative. > > You have two developers. > > One is a couple years out of college, BS in Computer Science. Done some > work with Access and VB. You need to train him in CF, but he has all > the intangible attributes you like, enthusiasm, good learner, self > starter blah blah.... > > The other is a veteran senior CF developer with more than 6 years of CF > experience working with fairly complicated applications. > > How much more would you expect from a senior developer than a newbie you > need to train. > > Bean counters want some sort of quantifiable comparison. Would you > expect 20% more productivity? 40% how much? For how long obviously the > newbie will get better / faster with time so maybe after two or three > years there are equal expectations. > > I realize there are too many intangibles to count. But as a rule how > much better are you in year ___ of your CF experience than you were in > year one? > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJP Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:278295 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
