If you are having your IT business in USA or in the European Countries, you know how much you should pay for a PHP developer with minimal knowledge, and if you look for very talented one, it wages go very high. But with the advancement in web technology many companies around the world came into the market and start providing web development and PHP programming services. Especially the companies from the Asian countries providing such services with a very nominal cost and is surely unbeatable for you.

Sometimes hiring PHP and Web developers from companies in India or China can be promising as they offer you a low cost (sometimes even 1/4rd of your in-house development cost) and great quality. Developers from these countries are even more intelligent and skilful. But as the number of such provider companies has increased surprisingly, you should take enough care while contacting these companies to hire PHP programmer as lots of inefficient guys are there who pretend to be expert, but actually the opposite in realty.

If you have a sound knowledge over PHP programming, then you are already on track while hiring web developers, but if you are not an expert, it is a risk for you hiring developers from a company who does not have a good reputation in market (great references). You must look at the following key points while contacting such a provider.

             Their previous work knowledge.
The previous work must be verified by contacting the project owners via email or phone.


2.      Their communication skill.
You should communicate with the project manager or the developers directly over phone or chat. Because using Emails and Documents, you will not be able to judge their communication skills always. Without a good communication skill, it will be hard for you to working with the developer you are about to hire.


3.      Their coding standard
If you are an expert, it is easy for you to understand what methodology or technology do they use for programming, but if you are not, then you must look into their coding pattern and make sure their codes (from previous projects) are well organized, well written, tidy and well commented. Make sure they are using latest version of PHP and following Object Oriented Programming (OOP) concept.


4.      Experience and Expertise of the Manager
You may think it awful to ask the experience of the Manager or CEO while hiring a developer from a company, but it is highly recommended that you do so, because without a good back end support from seniors, the developers may not perform very well. You are hiring a developer, but what if the developer is stuck somewhere and no one else there to help the developer solving the situation? Sometimes the help and suggestions from senior experts are needed.



5.      Support of Graphics Designer
Yes, this is also an key factor. May be you are hiring only one PHP developer, but if the developer is intended to work on a web project then it is obvious that sometimes the developer will need of small graphics and UI elements, like small banner, buttons and etc. It will be helpful if the developer can work out these himself else he should be able to get a support of a graphics designer when needed to maintain uninterrupted development.

There are lots of good companies are there. If you google with “Hire PHP Developer”, you will find a bunch of websites. Look at all the websites individually and primarily look at their web pages and how professional and informative their web pages are. This is the primary task. Gather companies from at least first 4 or 5 pages from google, spend some time to analyze the site, sort list few good companies and write them a mail or use contact form on their website.


Vehicle Tracking System is one of the latest technologies being used widely to track vehicles live. The system works based on the principle of Global Positioning System. The GPS tracking system compromises of one GPS tracker, one GSM module and a software to watch or track the vehicles. The whole system works in a pretty straight forward way. First the GPS receiver receives its current positioning information (longitude and latitude) with the help of one or more GPS satellites orbiting the earth.


Where the system can be used?

Nowadays vehicle tracking systems are used in various industries. Not only in industries, but also it is being used by individuals for teenager’s safety and theft protection. Fleet management companies can operate their business better by adopting vehicle tracking system, as the accompanying software can provide quite a few significant reports based on vehicles movement, fuel consumptions and etc.

What is the cost of implementing such vehicle tracking system?

The cost to implement the vehicle tracking system is not huge. A good quality GPS tracker along with GSM module and GPS antenna will come within a hundred dollars and depending upon the vendor and its functionalities the accompanying software will cost you differently from one vendor to another. So it’s good to look at the accompanying software and its feature before you purchase a vehicle tracking system for your personal use or to use in your companies vehicles. If you intend to use personally and just want to watch your vehicle moving live on a map then you should get a system with a very basic software with a low cost, where as if you are looking to manage your fleets, you should buy a GPS tracking system which has an extensive software included with all required functionalities that will help you to automate your business and reporting.