[DFW.pm] in dallas for a short time

Jerry Kassebaum kassebaumj at hotmail.com
Thu Nov 8 05:12:19 PST 2012


Kevin,

Object Oriented Perl sounds great! Dallas library doesn't have it, but I'll probably get it one way or the other after I've studied some of the other books suggested by the group.

I have no idea what Git is, but since both books are free, I will soon.

Jerry

P.S. fREW, I'm going to pick up a hard-copy HOP at the library.


> On books...
> 
> I liked Conway's "Perl Best Practices". Even when I didn't totally agree 
> with it, he says up front that if you think about the "why" and feel 
> like you can defend your answer, then the book has worked (or something 
> like that). It did make me think about how and why I work, so it was a 
> success.
> 
> I found Conway's "Object Oriented Perl" to be fantastic and well worth 
> the price. Besides discussing multiple ways to do OO, he also has good 
> advice on perl programming in general. In fact, Damian Conway is my 
> favorite Perl author and he's a blast to listen to if you can catch him 
> at a conference or a talk. (I hope we can get him to come back and give 
> a talk to our group again.)
> 
> I've read Dominus's "Higher Order Perl" and didn't care for it. While 
> there is some interesting stuff, there's not enough to make it 
> worthwhile -- fortunately it was free I would have been very 
> disappointed if I had bought it. To me, it was like he had an "Iterator 
> hammer" and tried to solve most problems with them. While that works 
> well on some problems, it felt like he was having to stretch too much to 
> make that work on too many of the problems.
> 
> I've got "Modern Perl", but have yet to read it.
> 
> I'm presently working my way thru the O'Reilly Git book. :) I do 
> recommend the Chacon "Pro Git" book, and it's free online.
> 
> HTH,
> Kevin
> 
> 
> On 11/07/2012 11:46 AM, Stuart Johnston wrote:
> > 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?
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