A Small World is a Big Deal

Jonathan Erickson's editorial, in the current issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal, delves into the topic of globalization. He writes:

"Putting aside inflammatory issues such as offshore jobs replacing domestic ones, there's undeniably a big jump in offshore programming resources. According to recent surveys from Evans Data and IDC, there are approximately 12 million professional developers worldwide, a number that's expected to grow to 17 million by 2009. Of that 5 million increase in developers, 3.2 million are expected to be in the Asia/Pacific and Europe/Middle East/Africa HASH(0x180c8d8), and 1.5 million in the Brazil/Russia/India/China HASH(0x180c8d8) (assuming I interpreted their data correctly)."

Erickson concludes the piece with a reference to an article written a while back by former DDJ Technical Editor Eugene Kim. It's a prescient piece: Kim discusses desiderata for collaborative programming tools that maps closely to some of the new stuff we've seen recently. Among our current favorites: a service from 6th Sense Analytics that wires up programmer desktops and toolkits for insightful, hassle-free project management and "active hours" monitoring (without getting all 'spyware' about it).

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