Rant Ahead.... I'm waiting for the person to pipe up saying they are going to outsource their development to Vietnam after reading this article. Stuff will ha

Rant Ahead.... I'm waiting for the person to pipe up saying they are going to outsource their development to Vietnam after reading this article. Stuff will happen, the hype will be replaced with reality and there will be lots of work cleaning up the mess. I have worked on two rails projects that were done by two different teams over there. Both were so bad that the only real answer was to rewrite from scratch. Are there good developers over there...yes. Those developers will be the exception like they are everywhere in the world.....and won't be the $10 an hour guys. A good educational system helps, but at the end of the day even if you are really good at solving academic problems (which a lot of engineers worldwide are not), unless those skills are combined with discipline such as TDD, the ability to interface with a client and understand the domain....... a lot can break down. I have no doubt that what the author saw at this one school was true. But what if you went to one of the best elementary, high schools and colleges in the US.....which happened to be clustered in the same area....and then said that the US system is awesome after having visited a really advanced magnet school and the Stanford computer science department....both on guided tours by the administration where they are going to put their best foot forward and only show the gifted classes. After all, the quality of the Stanford CS courses must be representative of all American schools such as ITT Tech and your run of the mill 2 years party schools.