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Outsourcing Programmer Services in the Philippines
October 23, 2006


Programming Skills: A Prerequisite to the Modern Artist

In the practice of making computer-based art, literature, poetry, drama, etc., is the question of artists as, or needing to be, programmers. How can artists learn to be programmers? Can tools simplify or take the place of programming? What kind of programming languages are amenable to artists? At what point do artists need to be programmers? Isn’t it enough for artists just to collaborate with programmers? Are programmers artists?

Artists can work to make programming better. Artists can learn how to do it. But, if they want to foster creativity by pretending that creative people shouldn't know what they clearly need to know, they’d be on the wrong track. Any tool for creating computer mediated work will either be a programming tool, or it will be a crippled toy. This isn't an opinion or a prejudice; it's a fact. Programming is choosing what the computer shall do; if you want to create a computer mediated work, you have to choose what the computer is to do.

Engineered tools have always been seen as extensions of human senses. The human race's ability to extend beyond its physical and mental restrictions is something that has been and will always be celebrated in both commercial and non-commercial culture. While a bird picks up a rock to crack an egg, humans pick up a rock and use it to count, or use it to remember, or use it to murder someone else. Society defines its eras by the concurrent states of its tools. There are some literature describing the pre-control society-types. For example, how was the feudal society different from the provincial society? Importantly, how was that difference defined by the tools of the time?

Enter the design field - a post-modern art-genre - a thriving business industry - a respected academic arena. Historically, these are a people who are quite facile at technology. They are theoretically virtuous manipulators of technology to produce industrial value through artistic practice. Currently, designers who author interactive media often grow to become very good programmers at one specific kind of programming. They are bridging a cultural gap, affording themselves enough skill to create disposable software tools used only by themselves during the process of creating a traditional form of media such as print. There are also exceptional hybrids who study engineering and design in parallel. In some cases, they even budge - creating software tools for the greater community.

The Philippines has recognized this philosophy that modern artists need to learn programming techniques to create new forms of art. The country has also started investing in industrial facilities and infrastructures to keep up with the fast development of technology. Filipinos have also studied in International universities to gain knowledge and expertise in Information Technology and pass it on to the younger generation, who benefit from the global demand for IT services. The world has acknowledged the Philippines’ competitive pool of skilled professionals and has finally resorted to outsourcing programmer services in the Philippines. The BPO growth of the Philippines continues to increase as international businesses realize the advantages of outsourcing: cost benefits, high quality output, and production increase.

Offshoring, Inc, the leading Philippine based American owned and operated company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, provides staff leasing services to hundreds of satisfied businesses across the globe. It is the industry leader in hiring and recruitment because the company only hires well-trained and experienced programmers and professionals. Offshoring, Inc also has a large pool of fully dedicated professionals such as writers, graphic designers, media managers, quality assurance representatives, data entry clerks and contact center agents, all with at least four year advanced degrees and practical experience in the workforce. Offshoring, Inc. allows customers to maximize the cost of utilizing offshore labor while ensuring delivery of services equal or greater than that of a company based in the customers' own country. Outsourcing programmer services in the Philippines is the smartest move an international business can make.

No position has a wider variety of skill sets than that of a programmer. There are many different programming languages out there. Just to name a few of the most popular: PHP, .NET, ASP, Java, JSP, JavaScript, C++, Cold Fusion and XML. For Offshoring, Inc, time and intellect make a great programmer a qualified expert. Scientists learn the hard part of doing science -- finding problems worth studying and learning how to find answers to questions nobody though to ask before -- in precisely the way programmers learn: by working right next to a real scientist for a few years, by studying good work, and by doing science. Filipino programmers are increasing in huge proportions by the day and as a result, competition in the IT field continues to be rigid as well. This influx of Filipino programmers sustains the large demand for outsourcing programmer services in the Philippines.

The code is a tool - the way that information is accessed, manipulated and presented in the art that a programmer produces. Combining existing ideas in new ways and creating completely new ideas to make some chunk on information more useful (or whatever aesthetic that pleases the eye) is what makes programming art.

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