On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 01:49:51PM +0000, Sam Smith wrote: > On 4 Jan 2002, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Randal L. Schwartz) writes: > > > Ivor> Skills required: Degree with 6+ years experience as a software developer > > > Ivor> in the internet industry. At least 4 years must be with Linux, Apache, > > > Ivor> Perl (must be primarily mod_perl), MySql, and XML. > > > > > > 4 years with mod_perl and XML???? > > > > > > Not even Doug MacEachern or Tim Bray would qualify!
Only the XML bit though? I dug through email archives a couple of weeks back (mainly to find out *when* my first message to p5p was, and when my first patch was) and discovered that although I hadn't kept the original of the mod_perl 1.0 announcement, I did have a record of a forward of the copy I'd received on p5p. August 1997 IIRC. > > > > > > Where's the part about "walking on water" or "sent to earth as God's > > > only begotten son"? > > > > > > This is ludicrous. Who writes this crap? That's what I'm wondering. "consultants" (of the pointless dot.com variety) used to be my answer. IIRC that was the answer I was given when I asked why the job specs for a bright orange balls up I used to work for were hoping for DBA experience in 5 different major databases when all we were running was Oracle. And the programmers we wanted were C++/Java, when we weren't doing any of either. It seems that trendy buzzwords were what got into job specs. I don't know if there are any pointless dot.com type consultants left. [I hope that they are all now in McDonalds. I don't mind which side of the counter] So I'm not sure who now writes the crap. > Maybe they'll keep readvertising it for the next few years until there > can be someone who meetings their criteria..... It seems to be very much like http://jobs.perl.org/job/180 http://jobs.perl.org/job/186 Maybe it too will come around again. and again. [and this message is going to get into the moderator queue like the one I sent from here last night about http://jobs.perl.org/job/186] Nicholas Clark
