[oak perl] introduction - some questions

[George Woolley]

Zed,
Again, thanks for introducing yourself on the list.

After reading and reflecting on your introduction,
I have a few (hopefully interested) questions.
Please feel free to ignore them if you wish
or play with them,
or even answer them straight forwardly.
Or do different things with different questions.

re the community:
* Are there some instances of Perl related playfulness 
that you enjoyed on the web?
* What else do you like about the Perl community
besides its playfulness?
* What is it that you especially like about PerlMonks?

re a job:
* What would be a good job in your mind?
* Does working for O'Reilly appeal to you?
* If yes, have you looked at http://jobs.oreilly.com?

re other:
* What would make a Perl group meeting
worthwhile for you?

Skoal,
George

P.S. If it happens that one or more of the questions interest you
but you prefer not to answer them on the list,
feel free to email me directly.


On Friday 20 August 2004 6:51 pm, Zed Lopez wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I just subscribed to the list, and George encouraged me to introduce
> myself.
>
> I'm Zed. I've been programming in Perl for about 8 years, mostly doing
> database-driven web applications. I'd say LAMP, but it's all been on
> non-Linux Unices (though I run Linux at home.)
>
> I love Perl. It's the language where I've felt most at home, where I
> can get from my thoughts to code fastest, with a minimum of tedium and
> overhead. And I love the playfulness of the Perl community.
>
> I'm an intermittent participant on PerlMonks. I'm unemployed, and hope
> to correct that soon. (Discouraging note: I see about a dozen each of
> Java and MSFT-technologies web programming positions for every Perl
> position. Even PHP has been beating Perl in terms of numbers of jobs
> listed.)
>
> I might make the next meeting -- don't know yet.
>
> Talk to you all later.
>
> Zed