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Originally Posted by woj
How do you figure they are the "best"? because they completed the work on time and it seems to work fine? That's probably good enough for 95% of the projects, but if you really want something well written, scalable, etc, you need someone who has a bit more training than "php for dummies" and a few years experience writing random scripts for people...
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The tech world changes so fast only the developers who pursue self education, continually, are worth anything. I've found that the self taught developers tend to fall into that category more than the more formally trained ones... I'm not saying this is always the case but I personally don't even have a high school diploma but I'm a published author on the LAMP stack (by Sybex) and I am proficient in Perl, Python, PHP, C++, C, Objective-C, Ruby, JS, AS, and more...
I've had the pleasure of working along side some fantastically brilliant people who never completed a college degree... the "father of jabber" they guy who created the XMPP protocol doesn't have a degree and Google seemed to collectively think he had the best thing going ;)