I have a small take on this... When we mad telecommuting available and stopped worrying about relocation things got a lot easier for us. We have managed to find very qualified and ambitious CF programmers in various places to add to our staff.
I'm writing a post on that topic that I hope to publish today in fact. My take is that when developers reach a certain level of expertise they have a lot of options open to them - most of which allow them to be independent. Some of them still move up the chain in the corporate world, but many are findings ways to make a good living and still do what they want. The best developers often need to do something interesting and they want to be exposed to the breadth of possibilities (different frameworks, approaches, the latest and greatest etc). We play to these strengths whenever we can. We provide a model that is focused on the work performed not hours at a desk. We make their families important to us. We provide them with a steady flow of positive reinforcement. Out of a staff of 18 nearly half are now remotely working in various parts of the country. The hurdles to overcome are: 1) How do you develop community and facilitate knowledge sharing with a remote staff. 2) How do you manage meetings and stakeholder interaction. 3) What technology is the most helpful with a remote staff. 4) How do you overcome the hesitancy of potential customers who are uncomfortable with a remote staff. Although we have learned a great deal, it is still a learning process for us and I am constantly trying new things to tweak our culture. -Mark Mark A. Kruger, MCSE, CFG (402) 408-3733 ext 105 www.cfwebtools.com www.coldfusionmuse.com www.necfug.com -----Original Message----- From: Tariq Ahmed [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 8:48 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: CF vs. Java Web Developer Taking developers from other backgrounds has been one of our strategies: http://riarockstars.com/2011/03/10/a-managers-take-on-the-state-of-cf-the-sc arcity-talent/ The bare minimum effort to get something loosely working is way easier in CF vs. Java. Unfortunately the majority of CF developers leave their skills at that - thus finding true CF experts is extremely difficult. Advanced Java/.NET folk pick CF up in two seconds, and they bring their formal software development OO theory & design with them. So we don't even look specifically for CFers anymore, just strong developers in general. Though the flip side to that is Sr. developers of another language probably want to stick with their language of choice. So finding people who are in-between intermediate and sr. is the sweet spot. :) On 6/21/11 2:46 AM, Scott Brady wrote: > FWIW, I don't think it's that easy to become a "good" CF developer, either. > Yes, it's very easy to learn the language and it's easy to become > "competent" at it (i.e., being able to build something that works). But to > actually be "good" (best practices, advanced topics, etc.) isn't necessarily > simple. In fact, because it's so easy to get up and running, in some ways, > that might make it harder to become really good, because you don't need to > in order to get things done. > > Java is definitely much more complex -- especially for people just getting > started -- and more powerful. But, I believe that if you're someone who is > actually good at CF (i.e., you're actually a developer rather than a coder), > you can learn Java. > > Scott > > On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Mike Chabot<[email protected]> wrote: > >> I was saying the original statement is false since I would never trivialize >> the effort needed to become proficient in Java. Becoming a good Java >> programmer is not "easy," as the original statement was implying. >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:345521 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
