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
with everything that isn't specific to CF, such as application
design, problem solving, etc.
Of course I'm just a putz, so what do I know... =]
!k
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 10:42 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: New developer vs
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
.
Hope I've given you a bit of perspective Ken. Good luck on your search!
Michael
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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
I personally think that experience is key. However, the experience needs to be
relevant to the project. Also, I think it is more than productivity. I can
hire a guy with 1 year experience that can churn out tons of code a day.
However, you have to look at the quality of the output. The
One thing that experience tends to bring is a broader understanding of
things that are more peripheral to CF itself - SQL (especially in terms of a
specific RDBMS, or wider experience with multiple), network and server
configuration, JavaScript/DOM, etc.
A developer's willingness to learn new and
Honestly, the value of a veteran developer can rarely be quantified. Veteran
can mean a variety of things and all of the prior comments suggest this - a
developer with 2 years of experience might be as good as a developer with 8
years of experience. This means that years of experience is a very
Seems like there are so many variables that it is hard to spell out
definitions. I know of developers who have been making business
applications for many years. Starting off with desktop applications and
moving onto web based ones via things like ColdFusion. One would think
people with so much
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
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