本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛People will easily feel cheated or fooled if they can not get direct benefit from what they contribute. We have to talk about what will be the advantages by doing real work as a start.

Most companies will care more about what you have accomplished, besides what you have learned. Many will even ask whether the project is internal or commercial product. To be honest though cruel, what you've learned will be only one line in your resume, no matter how many years you spent for it, either a degree or certificates. Some training companies provided course projects and rendered in the resume as real projects. And you know what it has turned out to be. Back in 1998, when I carried a laptop and demonstrated the software I produced for a startup company to the interviewers, they told me frankly that they were greatly impressed. (However, the startup company died because of financial problems left me zero cents except ideas and spirits.) By doing real works, you have real things to show to your future bosses. Also you will have reference people in North America.

Traditionally there are two ways of business, making product or providing consultance. Consulting (take contracts from other companies) is less risky and more instant money. But right now there are really not too many projects around in the recession. Making our own products is more controllable and we can accumulate intellectual property. The company will have more credit to make deals with others when the economy recovers. Get a look at ZDNET or CDNET download sections; we are not alone in doing that. The success rate is too low? It is actually higher than the percentage of people could get into a university in China.

What kind of products we will make actually depends on what kinds of people will response. Creative people are rare and precious, and most welcomed. Others want to be assigned tasks. On the technical part, for C++, a mature idea is automation software. Take a look at "Automate" software. We have a similar prototype and could be refined ona different focus. General idea is, if a category of product has no freeware on the market, then we have margin to compete. For those who will be interested in C# and XML, there is an accounting software under negotiation. It will be part of sales management system in China. Gratefully, the next ten years will be Chinese era. Anyone who has connection with Chinese enterprises will be highly welcomed to participate.

China has great potential on the IT development. There are a bunch of software (systems) available but someone (executive guys) told me that the usability and stability are poor. If the system is not proper designed, redundant work will cost high to the company. It is common phenomena in every aspects of Chinese industry. We can produce everything, but nothing perfect. And needless to say, Chinese companies lack management experiences and lag behind on the methodology and guidelines aspects. We can make up what they want corperating together. As of the personnel’s benefits, those who work with us will get compensated on what has been missed during your experience in China.

There are some smaller programs we want to implement as commercial software. We will publish them onto Internet to be accessible worldwide. We will need some persons to describe the software on our web site and write manuals. If you are expertised on hardware setup and configuration, we can help you on consulting services, marketing more on native people. New immigrants will feel pain if you charge anything from them, but the natives get used to pay for services if they are satisfied (usually, not all people are saints). That’s why Service industry is one of the supporting industry in North America. We will collect testimonies from users and list in the web site. Again, this is the way of life here. Credit system, do not take advantage of it by cheating, but really benefit from abide by it, in the name of both company and personnel. When it is the time, we will get sales company to sell for us or our own marketing people will do their home work.

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one on utilizing automation technique, another will be kind of MIS system. The first one will use C++ and intensive advanced Windows features. The other one will be developed on MS new technologies.

We have relatively clear requirements and capable to do good enough high level design. We are looking for long-term cooperation no matter you are currently working (professional or temporary) or studying. We will record credits for people who have contributed and will share the benefit after we obtain. We can understand that you will doubt the possibility of success. As mentioned in the previous correspondence, everything contains risks. We will constantly look for people who would like to do something more besides surviving, and believe that profits should be proportional with risks taken.

Long term interests include parallel computing across platforms. Those who are insterested Linux programming could keep an eye on it.

本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛From my experience in a growing small system integration company.

1. start from very small project, not quite high tech
2. Try to find hardware sales people, ask what they sell and do they need any help on programming the system he is selling.
3. I am programming automated data collection system using Visual Basic. You might laugh at the idea of programming using VB, but tell you the truth, right now almost 100% of our $210K/month business is done in VB. Because it's easy to use, and it's easy to find people and VB is a fantastic RAD tool and it gets the job done perfectly.
4.I have tried using VC++ to do the job, but the development process is too painfully slow and crash-prone, and while my customer is on the phone with me about certain crash or bugs, the only thing I can use is VB.

I have been to customer site and done quick fix. In C++? Don't even try that.

A lot of Americans are sales people. They don't like programming, but they love to sell high tech hardware, like barcode scanners, POS systems but those systems need to be programmed to the customers specification, very lucrative business.

OK, let the search begin.

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主要目的是提高小组成员对系统设计的重视。但也欢迎公众自由参加。主要内容是OOP+UML，每次一小时，免费。场地有限，请提前联系。

同时在这一阶段中也有其他小组与我们接触。每个人，每个团体都有所长，有所短，联合起来就可以互补。