Re: [JOB] BBC perl developers
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 03:51:30AM -0700, celia romaniuk wrote: Saw this and thought of you people. Not a tremendous amount of money but hey. Location: London Salary: Up to 30k Something to bear in mind: they've been recruiting five or six times for this post in the past year. Either they're not getting anyone, or people are leaving very fast... Roger
[JOB] BBC perl developers
Saw this and thought of you people. Not a tremendous amount of money but hey. Location: London Salary: Up to 30k Summary information BBCi... ...is the UK's number one digital destination, serving 9 million users across the web and interactive TV. The Web Development team builds the applications which power its high profile site. Provide applications support and software development... ...across wide range of technical projects. Work to agreed specifications, representing team as technical expert; assist other team members on software engineering issues. Define projects' resources and timescale; produce design documents as required. One year's commercial development experience with Perl... ...essential, with practical experience of Apache, SQL databases and XML on Unix platforms. Must be excellent team player and communicator, able to translate user requirements into creative technical solutions. http://www.bbc.co.uk/jobs/e55925.shtml -- i need a very special thesaurus
Re: [JOB] BBC perl developers
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 11:57:07AM +0100, Roger Burton West wrote: Something to bear in mind: they've been recruiting five or six times for this post in the past year. Either they're not getting anyone, or people are leaving very fast... Or they need more people. I don't know which is the case here, and the job ad doesn't help me by saying which part of the BBC it's for. -- Grand Inquisitor Reverend David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Do not be afraid of cooking, as your ingredients will know and misbehave -- Fergus Henderson
RE: [JOB] BBC perl developers Perl DBI
Something to bear in mind: they've been recruiting five or six times for
this post in the past year. Either they're not getting anyone, or people
are leaving very fast...
The little corner I sit in has been (slowly) growing, and I've had a very
enjoyable and educational 6 months there so far, fwiw. Not great pay, but
hey
On a completely different note, they let me go up to Manchester today to
attend a little talk by the author of DBI, Tim Bunce, organised by
manchester.pm.
And it was very interesting. There are some neat things, recently added
stuff, or coming soon features to DBI, at least for those that use it. It
was basically and updated version of the Advanced DBI talk available from:
http://dbi.perl.org/doc/conferences/tim_1999/index.html
and well worth a read if you use DBI (that version is a little out of date,
but still worth it).
my own particular and personal highlights include:
- wrap DBI calls in eval {...} for smart error handling.
http://dbi.perl.org/doc/conferences/tim_1999/19.html
- in built tracing
http://dbi.perl.org/doc/conferences/tim_1999/14.html
- in built database connection caching
http://dbi.perl.org/doc/conferences/tim_1999/35.html
as well as some interesting talk about forthcoming portability features,
where DBI will attempt to dynamically re-write your sql for the relevent
database (aka, silently handling the quirky difference between the various
implementations).
http://dbi.perl.org/doc/conferences/tim_1999/37.html
the stuff about speed is also well worth the read, even though it has very
little to do with DBI per se, and more to do with how to be a good database
user.
Tim also said he occasionally passed through London, and maybe london.pm
would be interested in having him talk sometime? I for one, would highly
recommend it for those that use DBI.
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Subject: Re: [JOB] BBC perl developers
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 03:51:30AM -0700, celia romaniuk wrote:
Saw this and thought of you people. Not a tremendous amount of money but
hey.
Location: London
Salary: Up to 30k
Something to bear in mind: they've been recruiting five or six times for
this post in the past year. Either they're not getting anyone, or people
are leaving very fast...
Roger
Re: [JOB] BBC perl developers
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 12:32:02PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: Or they need more people. I don't know which is the case here, and the job ad doesn't help me by saying which part of the BBC it's for. bbci? -- Natalie S. Ford ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.natalie.ourshack.org/ http://natalief.livejournal.com/
Re: [JOB] BBC perl developers
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 08:54:10PM +0100, Natalie S. Ford wrote: On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 12:32:02PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: Or they need more people. I don't know which is the case here, and the job ad doesn't help me by saying which part of the BBC it's for. bbci? That's a brand name. It covers a multitude of sins. -- David Cantrell|Degenerate|http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Educating this luser would be something to frustrate even the unflappable Yoda and make him jam a lightsaber up his arse while screaming praise evil, the Dark Side is your friend!. -- Derek Balling, in the Monastery
