Re: Alternative sources of Perl programmers

2013-05-17 Thread James Laver
On 17 May 2013, at 20:28, "Duncan Garland" wrote: > Do you want to come out to Thames Ditton? It's a bit of a hike, but if > you're interested I'll see what I can do. Historically, London.pm events outside of vaguely central london tend to have poor attendance ('vaguely' here means the BBC and

RE: Alternative sources of Perl programmers

2013-05-17 Thread Duncan Garland
Do you want to come out to Thames Ditton? It's a bit of a hike, but if you're interested I'll see what I can do. -Original Message- From: london.pm-boun...@london.pm.org [mailto:london.pm-boun...@london.pm.org] On Behalf Of James Laver Sent: 15 May 2013 23:20 To: London.pm Perl M[ou]ngers

RE: Alternative sources of Perl programmers

2013-05-17 Thread Duncan Garland
Hi, Thanks for all the replies. Interesting thoughts on telecommuters. Also interesting that nobody sees too much of a problem cross-training into Perl. I didn't mention the company because I was (and still am) using my personal email and it didn't seem appropriate. Anyway, the company is Motortr

Re: Alternative sources of Perl programmers

2013-05-17 Thread Paul Mooney
On 17.05.2013 06:35, Aaron Trevena wrote: Hi Duncan, On 15 May 2013 22:37, Duncan Garland wrote: I didn't mention the company because I was (and still am) using my personal email and it didn't seem appropriate. Anyway, the company is Motortrak (www.motortrak.com). I visited the site, the

Re: Alternative sources of Perl programmers

2013-05-17 Thread Simon Cozens
On 16/05/2013 19:20, Peter Corlett wrote: The agent added "OPUS WILL PAY £300 TO ANYONE WHO CAN RECCOMEND A SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE" in a double-size font, which showed a certain amount of desperation to fill the role, another red flag. Also, it will not help to recruit Perl programmers who are ge