I'm in an odd situation where our programmer resources probably don't match
what I need done. I've got a couple of hard core C programmers that work on
our hardware product and our parent company has some hard core COBOL
programmers. :) There are two of us that can hold our own in Perl, but web
development or much UI development in Perl is not the direction technology
and tools are going and we don't have time to work on it.
The reality is that I'm going to end up hiring somebody to write it or
contract it out. I'm not constrained by what my staff knows or what we have
developed in previously. It's a catch 22... I can't base my decision on
what the skills of the person doing the programming since that person
doesn't exist until I decide what language/platform we will program in.
I have started building out the requirements document independent of the
language and doing a lot of the things you talk about (thanks for the list
of things to cover).
Given my lack of constraints and the ability to start from scratch, do you
have opinions one way or another?
Chris,
PHP developers are a dime a dozen and you should be able to find some really
good talent locally for the development. The costs should be fair if you look
around for great talent! The key here is finding the talent. About 80% of my
contracts are fixing PHP applications that companies have outsourced and did not
receive the desired result. I would suggest that if you outsource you provide
very detailed requirements and work on a development phase plan.
If it was me i would look at a couple languages: php, python and java. But that
depends on the hardware and deployment strategy that you designed. Server wise i
would be on linux with apache or whatever app server you need.
--
ray
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