Anyone can go on Craig's List and find pages of "budget minded" people who are seeking skilled programmers for $10/hr.
Of course, one also sees the same people advertising months later for "market rate" programmers to fix whatever didn't turn out the way it should have in their $10-an-hr fantasy of an outcome. Important skills needed to be successful in developing applications for business are: knowledge of business processes, various industries' data formats and tasks, how to interview the users in a way that lets them tell you what you need to know about what they want in an application even when they say they are "not sure", and just general exposure to and ability to glean the culture and language of, the environment you are coding for -- and these are the types of skills lacking in overseas development teams. These are also the types of skills that developers taking on "mid sized" projects must have because there is no fancy business analyst in a suit to deal with these issues for you... Kristina _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community Jobs Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/jobs NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
