Recently, an Indian poster on a Slashdot thread ('India Outsourcers Find Back Door in Canada') mentioned that:
Software Developers in India (including me) are paid 350 times the prevailing minimum wage in India.
I thought it would be interesting to make a comparison with the same data in Europe:
in a country such as France, this makes 402.640EUR/month.
in [...]
“Sir, on behalf of this Democratic Government of Nigeria, I apologize for any delay you might have encountered in receiving your money in the past.”
Ummm, well … apologies accepted.
Being extremely busy lately, I arrive a bit late at the Junit destruction feast. While it is probably true that some guys with a certain gift for writing blog articles may “come up with something far more useful in a couple of days”, I think the discussion is missing an important point: there's a whole [...]
… at least that's what Mr. David Gristwood says in this (otherwise excellent) entry ('21 Rules of Thumb - How Microsoft develops its Software') on his MSDN weblog. Davis thinks that :
Even discounting the added development burden, with the addition of each additional platform the job of QA increases substantially. While clever QA management can [...]
Two interesting predictions:
“McNealy also predicted that five years from now, most people will be amazed they ever owned a PC.”
June 5, 1998
“This agreement will be of significant benefit to both Sun and Microsoft customers. It will stimulate new products, delivering great new choices for customers who want to combine server products from multiple vendors and [...]