A common tendency when looking for software developers is to focus closely on their background in specific programming languages. As previously discussed in Why Do You Hire Programmers?, unnecessary focus on a specific language can lead to other, more appropriate options being overlooked.
A second hazard arises in that, by looking for language-specific experience, this [...]
February 18, 2009 – 20:47
Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) has taken the world by storm. Startups everywhere have built their businesses upon a foundation of FOSS products, with the LAMP (Linux-Apache-MySQL-Perl/PHP/Python) platform being the best-known among them, and some have gone beyond using FOSS to producing it. Even some of the more traditional, established companies are contributing to [...]
February 13, 2009 – 16:58
You have a project that you need to have developed and you know why you’re going to hire a programmer. Don’t forget to discuss with your developer how you want to have your project built.
It doesn’t much matter whether your project is the latest addition to the world’s surplus of data-entry systems or the [...]
February 11, 2009 – 16:19
If you’re developing or deploying software, then it should have a purpose. Unless you’re doing cutting-edge research, then that purpose is probably not to provide a tech demo, nor to show off how many buzzword-laden features you can pack into it…
The technology industry, by and large, is inhabited by early adopters. It’s how most of us got here, after all. You learn to work with “high-tech” equipment by doing it and you do it because you want to play with the latest shiny new toys.
But the latest, of course, is also the least [...]
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