[ILUG] Perl hacker required.

[Tony Byrne]

[sent to list after falling foul of the reply-to trap]

Niall,

On 27 Jul 2007, at 12:43, Niall Walsh wrote:

> For anyone potentially interested in the above I noticed  
> directski.com (former speaker on postgresql at the ILUG/OpenIreland  
> talks in the RDS) have a position for a soap/perl/xml/postgresql/ 
> unix "web services developer" on their jobs page (http:// 
> www.directski.com/go/jobs).   Of course it could be the same job  
> for all I know!

I'm the Head of Application development for Directski.com and it *is*  
the same job :-)

> Mildly interesting ILUG twist, I actually found the direct ski job  
> snooping back on the last (2005/2006) posts to the Dublin Perl  
> Mongers mailing list.   I was inspired to have a look by Kens blog  
> post about the recent Irish PHP Users Group (IPHPUG) meeting and  
> found a post asking if directski were having trouble filling a  
> similar position to the above as the job had appeared on "rake of  
> agencies".   Could it still be unfilled from 2 years ago?

No, we did fill that position and I don't recall it taking us all  
that long either.  This time around its proving tough to find  
developers with solid Perl skills, although I'm prepared to believe  
that we haven't been looking in the right places until now, or that  
the time of year has something to do with it.  Has Perl been deserted  
by serious developers, or are they all working for the Googles &  
eBays of the world?

Regards,

Tony (serious Perl developer).