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The PSIA Technology Council blog aggregator is now up! So far we only have four feeds but we'll get more soon. Right now, we have the following:

Deng Ching, Project Management Committee Chair for the Apache Archive Project

Mike Mallete, Philippine Groovy/Grails User Group founder and president, and author of the Grails… Continue

How much do you really save when outsourcing your software development offshore? What are the hidden costs of offshoring?

Compensation & Benefits Comparison

First of all, let's start with just a compensation and benefits comparison. When doing your calculation for an onshore hire, don't forget to include the cost of such benefits as social security, healthcare, pension, time off and even bonuses. According to Salary.com (as of this writing), the total average US compensation and ben… Continue

Arthur Tyde III, long-time Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur and investor, agrees to join the Orange & Bronze board of directors. The senior partners of Orange & Bronze believe Art Tyde can lend an experienced and global perspective to O&B's business, as well as provide signifi… Continue

JM Ibañez, O&B software architect, has recently been working on a project where he had to load test a client-server application where interaction between the client (a Swing app) and the server is via RMI. To that end, we've released the code to allow JMeter to record RMI calls as well as play them back.

The code itself is self-contained, and only requires a JMeter binary release (and not the source), and Ant to build.

Source code is hosted at GitHub at: git://github.com/jmibanez/jmeter-rm… Continue

O&B's currently rolling out leadership and professional development programs on a large scale.
- We've got 20 people enrolled in a once-a-week leadership training course.
- We've got another 15 people enrolled in a once-a-week 7-Habits discussion group.
- 6 people enrolled in a public-speaking course.

That's more than half the company. I've got a lot more training courses in store for the people. Since we've been growing very rapidly it's very important that we begin developing leaders now… Continue