[DFW.pm] in dallas for a short time

Stuart Johnston saj at thecommune.net
Wed Nov 7 09:46:03 PST 2012


Unfortunately, most employers are going to want real-world, job 
experience. To substitute for that, make sure you have code that you are 
proud to share. Put it on github. Look into working on some CPAN modules.

Books to read: chromatic's "Modern Perl", Conway's "Perl Best 
Practices", and if you are really ambitious, MJD's "Higher-Order Perl". 
Has anyone read "Effective Perl Programming"? That's probably a good one 
too. (Assuming you have already read "the Camel".)

Try using Moose and Plack. Frameworks are good too. Catalyst, Dancer, 
Mojolicious. I know of at least one DFW employer using Catalyst.

Have fun!


On 11/7/2012 11:25 AM, Jerry Kassebaum wrote:
> Stuart and Group,
>
> What would you suggest I do to build my skills to make myself hirable? I
> can use cgi and regular expressions to scrape websites and put the info
> into a MySQL database. I can also update divs and spans in webpages with
> Ajax. What should I study next?
>
> Jerry Kassebaum
>
>  > Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2012 09:41:16 -0600
>  > From: saj at thecommune.net
>  > To: dfw-pm at pm.org
>  > Subject: Re: [DFW.pm] in dallas for a short time
>  >
>  > I haven't been looking but I do get emails from recruiters,
>  > occasionally. I know Yahoo was hiring recently.
>  >
>  > Early this year when I was trying to find a new contractor, the best
>  > candidates often has accepted another position before I could get them
>  > in for interviews. From my perspective, the market seems to favor job
>  > seekers, assuming you have the skills.
>  >
>  > Overall, the economy in North Texas is better than in many parts of the
>  > country.
>  >
>  >
>  > On 11/7/2012 9:33 AM, nadim khemir wrote:
>  > > Sorry for the spam but could anyone in the mailing list tell me a bit
>  > > about the market in Dallas?
>  > >
>  > > Cheers, Nadim.
>  > >
>  > > On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 2:19 PM, nadim khemir <nadim.khemir at gmail.com
>  > > <mailto:nadim.khemir at gmail.com>> wrote:
>  > >
>  > > thank for your input. I am here for a short while and I may be able
>  > > to attend.
>  > >
>  > > Another question is: how does the market look here?
>  > >
>  > > cheers, Nadim
>  > >
>  > > On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 4:07 PM, John Fields <wigthft at gmail.com
>  > > <mailto:wigthft at gmail.com>> wrote:
>  > >
>  > > Whoops! Meant to also send:
>  > > https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/dallasp6m
>  > > <https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#%21forum/dallasp6m>
>  > >
>  > > The DFW perl mongers proper are currently being re-organized, no
>  > > scheduled meetings there.
>  > > There is a Perl 6 group that meets in Allen on the second
>  > > Tuesday of every month. That link is the google groups link to it.
>  > > JF
>  > >
>  > >
>  > > On 10/31/2012 02:46 PM, nadim khemir wrote:
>  > >> hi guys, I am in Dallas and wondered if you were still active
>  > >> or have any meeting soon.
>  > >>
>  > >> Cheers, Nadim.



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