Having worked with indian contractors, I can tell you that it is definately a 'siso' arrangement. 'stuff in/ stuff out'. If what you received wasn't what you expected, take a look at your direction and try to imagine how they got that from your instructions, then rewrite them to say what you really meant.
Then you have to hire someone to review the code and verify it is correct. (section 508 standards? what is that?) For the hours involved, I can see using foreign talent for subcontracting purposes, but for 1st level approach, it would behoove whomever hires them to have a project manager onsite who is either very familiar with the native language and cultures, or someone who is from that culture. What I offer as a US based programmer, to US based companies, is a complete communication cycle. However, describing the differences may make me sound prejudice, to a client. I prefer to remind the client that the professionalism you get in exchange for the local programmer far outweighs the reduction in hourly rate. After all, you can hire someone to learn a language and then produce for you at 1/4 the rate of a professional who already understands that programming language, but the job will get done 10 times faster and work 10 times better. Case in point. There is another thread on these boards about someone who was reviewing older code and updating with the cfqueryparam tags. You lose money dealing with a learning curve, instead of hiring into the professionals. William -----Original Message---- -From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Date: Sep 11, 2007 13:34 -To: "CF-Community"<cf-community@houseoffusion.com> -Subj: Re: Recruiters (was RE: Unbelievable!) - -You provide services that they can't. You provide face-time, or -cultural understanding, or an accent that the client can understand. -You provide management for the mud-hut-dwelling-towel-wearers. You push -the routine stuff to cheap labor overseas and take care of the -architecture and tricky bits yourself. - ---BenD - -Scott Stewart wrote: -> I'm not really fond of Bruce's choice of words, but I understand his point. -> How are we supposed to compete, with someone who will work for half, or less -> of what we do. There's a whole network that would be more than willing to -> push you or me or Bruce out of a job to send it to someone overseas. -> - - - ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade to ColdFusion 8 and integrate with Adobe Flex http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJP Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:242198 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
