Sharandeep B. - "Experienced CakePHP, AJAX and CSS/XHTML Developer - Cybertron Technologies Programmer / Developer, India"

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Sharan is a good xhtml/css coder.

Here understands many advanced css concepts, the code he produced was good quality, and did the job that was required.

However, our requirements were for "bleeding edge", lightweight, semantic mark-up. Sharan and his team weren't quite up to this challenge. We had to rework/clean up the xhtml to demonstrate what we were trying to achieve. No doubt, a few more projects would iron these issues out, as he seems more than capable.

Unfortuantely, Sharan was very busy and, following an initial burst of activity, progress slowed right down to around an 1 hour per day. And that was despite a daily progress IM chat with Sharan, with target being set and agreed.

In short, I get the impression Sharan has overcommitted himself and, instead of being open and realistic about what could be achieved and when (an approach we applaud), he made promises he didn't keep.

As a result, although this project was to include some javascript development, we have cut the project short. With tight deadlines, it would be impossible for us to gauge / trust whether the work would be completed in time, which means we will be doing some overtime and doing the work ourselves.