Re: Perl jobs in London?

2003-02-25 Thread Ian Brayshaw
On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 14:06, Peter Hickman wrote: > Ian Brayshaw wrote: > > Agreed. But when you need a job you apply for all the jobs you can find. > > Those 50 agencies represent over 50 jobs that I feel I have the skills > > for and would like to do. It's more a measure of how flooded the market

Re: Perl jobs in London?

2003-02-25 Thread Peter Hickman
Ian Brayshaw wrote: Agreed. But when you need a job you apply for all the jobs you can find. Those 50 agencies represent over 50 jobs that I feel I have the skills for and would like to do. It's more a measure of how flooded the market is with applications when most recruiters don't read most CVs t

Linux Virtual Machines

2003-02-25 Thread Peter Sergeant
Having heard quite a bit of discussion on The Other London.pm Place about people wanting cheap colo solutions, and having recently bumped into an old school friend who's started a business doing just that, I though I'd post this to the list... Born out of basically an argument over why their serve

Re: [Job] Looking for a Sales Guy

2003-02-25 Thread Mike Jarvis
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 03:38:56PM +, Paul Makepeace wrote: > > There would be less Email Viruses if ? > > "There would be fewer Email Viruses if:" > > 'Less' is for singular, 'fewer' is for plural. ('More' can be used > with both.) > > , > Paul What do you mean for plural, since both have

[ANNOUNCE] Social Meeting: Thursday 6th March @ The Star

2003-02-25 Thread Mark Fowler
Announcing the March social meeting of the London Perl Mongers, which will be held after seven on Thursday the 6th of March in the upstairs room of the Star of Belgravia. The Star is in walking distance of Victoria, Sloane Square, Hyde Park Corner and Knightsbridge. Full directions to the pub are

Re: Perl jobs in London?

2003-02-25 Thread michael
Nigel Hamilton wrote: >It's quite scary when they advertise for someone with 'Pearl' and >'SeekWell' skills. >Unfortunately some agents do a naive acronym match, between job spec and >your CV. >I hope that their CV databases weed out CV's that contain acronym >'payloads' hidden in whitespace, hea

Re: [Job] Looking for a Sales Guy

2003-02-25 Thread Paul Makepeace
> There would be less Email Viruses if ? "There would be fewer Email Viruses if:" 'Less' is for singular, 'fewer' is for plural. ('More' can be used with both.) , Paul -- Paul Makepeace ... http://paulm.com/ "What is truth? It itches." -- http://paulm.co

Re: [Job] Looking for a Sales Guy

2003-02-25 Thread Dirk Koopman
On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 15:07, nemesis wrote: > Nik Butler wrote: > > ...good sales guys ? > > Isn't that an Oxymoron? Nope, but people have different opinions on the Job Spec represented by 'good' in this context. Me? I am happy if they sell what I can produce in the time frame they told the cust

Re: [Job] Looking for a Sales Guy

2003-02-25 Thread nemesis
Nik Butler wrote: ...good sales guys ? Isn't that an Oxymoron? :-) Will

Re: [Job] Looking for a Sales Guy

2003-02-25 Thread Nik Butler
Actually whats annoying is I been so busy I aint updated that site in a while. most of my business does not come via the web or net.. I really should forward it to the new site though. meanwhile does anyone know any good sales guys ? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wired4life.org/

Re: [Job] Looking for a Sales Guy

2003-02-25 Thread Peter Sergeant
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wired4life.org/ Wired4Life, an Answer. With regards to your website, I notice a little poll... There would be less Email Viruses if ? o Attachments were banned. o Outlook[express] was not integrated into Windows o Users thought about what they were view

[Job] Looking for a Sales Guy

2003-02-25 Thread Nik Butler
Remember Me ? Well Wired4Life is getting a little bigger and has had a few more successes in the last year. The result of which is I wish to bite the bullet and take on someone to help me market and promote the use of Linux and Open Source in the small business environment. oh yes, and we are ch

Re: Perl jobs in London?

2003-02-25 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 10:35:38AM +, Nigel Hamilton wrote: > Unfortunately some agents do a naive acronym match, between job spec and > your CV. > > Because they often can't discriminate between the important acronyms and > the less important ... they often wait until they find a CV that is f

[JOB] Linux SA

2003-02-25 Thread Simon Wistow
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 07:58:11AM +, Simon Wistow said: > That's not to say that it's good but it'd definitely better than it was > 4 months ago and that, in turn, was infinitely better than it was a year > before that. And as if to prove a point ... "Linux SA work with some Win32 support. T

Re: Perl jobs in London?

2003-02-25 Thread Roger Burton West
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 10:35:38AM +, Nigel Hamilton wrote: >I hope that their CV databases weed out CV's that contain acronym >'payloads' hidden in whitespace, headers and footers. For example, The ones I've looked at certainly don't. >Before you know it the average CV will be two pages long

Re: Perl jobs in London?

2003-02-25 Thread Nigel Hamilton
> > [0] Don't delude yourself about the cluefulnesss of agents/employers: > they are not and will never be clueful. > It's quite scary when they advertise for someone with 'Pearl' and 'SeekWell' skills. Unfortunately some agents do a naive acronym match, between job spec and your CV. Beca

Re: Perl jobs in London?

2003-02-25 Thread Ian Brayshaw
On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 10:14, Simon Wistow wrote: > I think that's your problem right there. 50 agencies is too many I think > it's been discussed before that it's better just to find one or two good > agents and stick with them. Agreed. But when you need a job you apply for all the jobs you can

Re: Perl jobs in London?

2003-02-25 Thread Simon Wistow
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 09:54:24AM +, Ian Brayshaw said: > > Well, as everyone else has said, the market ain't what it used to be. > I'm currently looking for work myself at the moment and have found it > to be quite tough. I have my CV with about 50 agencies, and feel as > though I'm getting

Re: Perl jobs in London?

2003-02-25 Thread Ian Brayshaw
On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 22:18, Bill Corr wrote: I might need a London job... Well, as everyone else has said, the market ain't what it used to be. I'm currently looking for work myself at the moment and have found it to be quite tough. I have my CV with about 50 agencies, and feel as though I'm g

Re: Domain reseller survey

2003-02-25 Thread Jason Clifford
On Sat, 22 Feb 2003, Paul Makepeace wrote: > Is anyone else reselling domain names? (Or even ICANN accredited?!) I > recently become a "value added service provider" for BulkRegister and > am poking about with their API. (You can either contact them via > HTTPS POSTs or send XML at a socket. It's

Re: repeating dates

2003-02-25 Thread Sean M. Burke
At 12:26 PM 2003-02-24 +, alex wrote: I'm guessing I'd have to only allow a certain subset of the crontab spec, and engage some cleverness in how I store and retrieve the values so that it's indexable. I'm not sure I'm clever enough though, or even if its possible. purl, advice? TorgoX: A