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What is this all about ?

These articles are about offshore programming, a little about hosting providers, search engines, MySQL and PHP.

Introduction to Offshore Programming

The way of software development when the programmer contacts with the client via telecommunications (Internet) is called Offshore Programming. In the Net you can find services of independent consultants who work from home by the dial-up connection, and large companies who develop major projects for foreign clients.

The leading role by the number of offshore IT-consultants have India, Eastern Europe, Russia, Philippines.

Offshore programming has its benefits and drawbacks. For the client it is a chance to save money invested in the development, because rates of the offshore IT-consultants are much lower than their colleagues from USA, Canada and Western Europe. For the programmers it is a good opportunity to earn money working from home. It is also a certain risk degree presents in it, because parties never met before and cannot trust fully to each other.

The typical way of the cooperation between consultant and customer is the following:

• Working out the specifications by the client
• Looking for executive
• trusting the relations between parties
• discussing the project cost and figuring out the quote
• working out the contract agreement
• development itself
• getting the beta-version and quality assurance
• payment
• production and support