Shortage of coders?

Posted by Giovanni Intini | Filed under Business, Italy

I read this interesing post on the 37signals blog a few moments ago, and I couldn’t avoid thinking we almost have the same problems here.

I have been criticizing the lack of capital in Italy since I began blogging on tempe.st, but capital isn’t the only resource we lack. There’s also a shortage of good heads. The hundreds of talented coders are working around the clock and have to say no to interesting ideas all the time, and obviously can’t find the energies to work on their big projects.

Anyone has a solution to this contradiction?

Permalink | Comments (4) | Apr 11, 2007

4 Responses to “Shortage of coders?”

  1. Lawrence Oluyede Says:
    April 11th, 2007 at 9:49 pm

    We, as the Python community, have the same exact problem. A spring into job position but a massive lack of skilled coders. The solution can be something like PyCon to spread the knowledge. You can also train a good head. Find someone interested in programming and teach him. That’s a big investment tough

  2. Giovanni Intini Says:
    April 11th, 2007 at 11:10 pm

    Training is a big cost, and you won’t believe it but I also have problems finding php coders.

  3. Lawrence Oluyede Says:
    April 12th, 2007 at 2:03 am

    It seems that the boom in IT has come back, then :-)

  4. Giovanni Intini Says:
    April 12th, 2007 at 9:57 am

    It looks like it has, but I haven’t seen the money yet ;)