[Omaha.pm] Hiring polyglots (Modern Perl, Scala, etc.)

[Britt Gray]

Hey Fellow Perl Mongers.



I have lost my mind and can’t figure out what the following line of code
does.

It is removing something from $adj.



$adj =~ s/^ $//;





Thanks,

Britt


On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Jay Hannah <jay.hannah at iinteractive.com>wrote:

> On Apr 9, 2014, at 3:00 PM, Dave Burchell <evaddnomaid at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hey Jay, put me down as interested.
>
> Awesome! Thanks! I've shared your resume up the ladder, we should do lunch
> or something.
>
> > Couple of questions:
> > 1) I'm getting more and more into functional programming.  I don't know
> much about Scala, but I see it has some pretty strong functional features.
>  How open/encouraging would this position be to a functional approach with
> Scala?
>
> Very. The Scala workload I'm briefed on is in early planning phase, so you
> can guide the design and implementation to suit your preferences. You'll
> help Scala neophytes (like me) ramp up to your vision of the Right Way to
> do it.   :)
>
> > 2) I usually do a conference or two every year, often working with Dave
> Nielsen (who you might have met at Hack Omaha).  How flexible would the
> position be on (unpaid) time off for conferences?
>
> We encourage conferences, public speaking, training. All that time is paid.
>
> ( If you prefer NOT to be paid, simply give your money to me after your
> auto-deposit hits.  :)  )
>
> ( We don't track PTO. If you get your partner work done, we're happy. )
>
> We cover all your expenses for the annual company-wide meeting in Las
> Vegas, and one other conference of your choice each year. Many of us
> Perl-leaning folk choose YAPC::NA (and other Perl conferences) but you
> might prefer one or more Scala/whatever confs? Flexibility for additional
> conferences beyond that? If you can still get your partner work done,
> great! Go!
>
> > But while we are on the subject of "Modern Perl": Dave Cross points out (
> http://www.josetteorama.com/what-is-modern-perl/) that "Modern Perl" can
> mean different things to different people.  What does "Modern Perl" mean to
> you, Jay?
>
> Using supported, documented frameworks to solve common business problems,
> instead of rolling-your-own abominations like we all did in our
> rambunctious youths. Our default Perl-flavored stack often looks like this:
>
> VC:   git
> perl: current!
>       5.18.2! Why not?[1]
>       5.19.10 if you're feeling saucy :)
> OO:   Moose
> web:  Catalyst, PSGI/Plack, Template::Toolkit
> ORM:  DBIx::Class or Rose::DB
> TDD:  Test::More and friends
>       ... and the cool half of CPAN. ;)
> RDBMS: PostgreSQL, or whatever is the best fit for the particular task,
> including NoSQLs
> CI:   Jenkins or Bamboo
>
> Well, that's my default Perl-flavored stack. We employ several genius
> types that deploy "edgier" stuff, as warranted.  :)
>
> Did that address your questions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jay Hannah
> Project Lead / Programmer
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>
>
>
> [1] Yes, sometimes there are very valid reasons not to.  :)
>
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