I was wondering if people across the country are seeing similarly steep drops in consulting business as we have seen in Los Angeles over the summer. Maybe I shouldn't have watched the CNN reports on the DOW dropping almost 1000 points in two days. How is your pipeline looking? Do you have big customers putting projects on hold? ...
Do we need to fear the $700 Billion government bailout? Will defense contractors eventually take a hit? What software specialties should we be able to depend on to ride out the market? What are your thoughts? ...
Programming is considered by many to be a recession proof job but with the recent downturn in the economy and how severe it's been, will this still hold true for this recession? Are people seeing their salaries go down? ...
I will be graduating with a bachelor's in IT soon. I truly enjoy programming, yet I do not have any relevant work experience in IT. With the current job market, what are my chances of landing a programming position. I understand and agree that someone in my position will have to begin somewhere and most likely, that somewhere will be at...
Many programmers, software engineers, and other technology professionals are out of work, facing layoffs, or are unprepared for layoffs though they feel secure right now. What should every programmer do right now (even if secure in their current job) to prepare them for layoffs down the road? If your boss came to your cubicle while y...
The effects of the current economic crisis is far reaching. Here in Australia we are seeing massive cut backs on spending and massive job cuts in big business - mining giant Rio Tinto has just announced 14,000 jobs being cut world wide (~2/3 contractors, 1/3 employees). My business specialises in short term innovative software developm...
Recently I read that the author of the 99 cent iFart Mobile application for the iPhone makes nearly 10,000 US$ a day (!)¹ with his flatulence simulator. Do you know of any other silly or useless, but commercially successful software products? Perhaps there is a pattern and we all can find recession-proof software niches as competition h...
How has the current economic downturn affected the way you/your team works ? I am tending to do more enhancements, compared to brand new development a year or so ago. This question came about during another pub conversation where we were discussing if it's good to work on supporting applications or working on new projects - which is ...
Given the climate that this economy has created where every IT budget line is more closely scrutinized it seems like we as developers often need to work even harder to convince decision makers of why they should upgrade or go for the latest and greatest this or that. Given where things have been headed it seems like a very pertinent subj...
Based on actions I've seen management take in recent weeks it seems clear that they are preparing for a layoff at my company. I also have reasons to suspect that there's a good chance I'm on the "list". Given that the job market for programmers in my area seems to be pretty much dead and likely will be for a while, I'm considering appl...
I've been hearing some good things about Google's Android Market recently, and I might look into developing for android (currently develop for iPhone OS) at some point. Are any of you Android Developers, or simultaneously developing for iPhone AND Android? What have your experiences been for developing and selling your apps on the Androi...
Hello! Usually players in a soccer manager game have market values. The managers sell their players in accordance with these market values. They think: "Oh, the player is worth 3,000,00 so I'll try to sell him for 3,500,000". All players have three basic qualities: strength value (1-99) maximal strength they can ever attain (1-99) mo...
I'm currently developing an application where I need to implement some sort of way of handling credits which are purchased by users of my application. These credits will then be used to preform certain tasks inside my application such as purchasing hits in mechanical turk. The reason I need to do this is because in the case of mechanic...