Ken, also consider the complexity of the first projects you'd like your developer to do. If it is fairly low to medium complexity, then his/her learning curve could be right along with the development timeline. I have seen CF developers 'grow' into their first apps with pretty good results. CF afterall, is quite easy to learn if the learner quite motivated and creative.
Of course if you have a pretty complex app, with little to spare on the sched, then you know the answer to that. I think there is a 3 year threshold to any developer's experience. This means after the third year, you can all view them in equal footing. Since web technology changes in a very fast pace, whoever keeps up with present technology wins. Take Ajax, as an example. Today, a developer with 3 years exp maybe more adept to it than the one with 8 because he/she might've jumped on it first... you get the picture. Hope I've given you a bit of perspective Ken. Good luck on your search! Michael > -----Original Message----- > From: Barney Boisvert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 10:37 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: New developer vs. Veteran developer > > 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? > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Macromedia ColdFusion MX7 Upgrade to MX7 & experience time-saving features, more productivity. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJW Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:278302 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
