<![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, coding horror]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, coding horror]]> http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/codinghorror http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/codinghorror <![CDATA[Can you really rent-a-coder?]]> Electronic Arts recently shut down Blueprint, a strategic project to enable the company to develop more software without onsite programmers. Coding Horror blogger Jeff Atwood is a professional programmer who lives in Berkeley. That makes him biased against cheap-outsourced-programer sites like Guru.com. But Atwood's hard-to-explain discomfort — and the war stories left by commenters — are based on an unpopular truth: There's no substitute for being in the office.

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