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I'm reading the Code Craft blog (I discovered it a few days ago) and
I'm really enjoying the entries there. I recommend you check it out.

Here are few entries which are worth a read. The author writes from India, where he currently works. His summary of the Indian software market is the best you will find -- he just tells it how it is. Excellent writing.

Indian bubble
    - unless you are willing to pay wages
that start to sound a lot like like US wages, attracting top people is nearly impossible

Knowing, doing and learning

Let the hard stay hard

Finding coders on the subcontinent
    - The practical reality is that anyone
in India who can spell Java already has a job.
    - experienced candidates... less than
one in five could write a loop that counted from one to ten in AN Y programming language
    - you have to interview too many bad
candidates to find the really good ones

Reference
Code Craft by Kevin Barnes