Before you want to off-shore your programming to supposedly save money, you might want to read this all too common plea for help a friend received via e-mail… the names have been changed to protect the desperate:

Hello,

My company has a need for an experienced VB.NET programmer. The position is flexible. It can be employment or on contract.

To give you a brief background, we contracted with a company overseas in Pakistan to develop a medical practice management application (billing, scheduling...etc). The application is about 80% finished and we are planning on bring it in house for testing and further enhancements. Communication with overseas has been challenging. We prefer to take it over at this point.