Re: Mason

2012-02-29 Thread Jones, Christopher
On 29 Feb 2012, at 17:11, Leo Lapworth wrote: > Quoting Christopher Jones : > >> I'm looking for a decent book to help get me up to speed with Mason but >> could only find "Embedding Perl in HTML with Mason" on Amazon - a paper >> edition from 2002 and a more recent 2010 edition on Kindle only. >

Re: Mason

2012-02-29 Thread Jones, Christopher
On 29 Feb 2012, at 16:10, Dave Cross wrote: > I'm betting that the later date on the kindle edition is just the date that > the kindle version of the original edition was published. For example, the > kindle edition of the TT book is dated 7 Jun 2011, but I know that's the same > as the 2003 ed

Re: Should I work in the US or the UK? - which pays best?

2011-12-13 Thread Jones, Christopher
On 13 Dec 2011, at 21:01, Simon Wistow wrote: > On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 10:25:58AM -0500, Uri Guttman said: >> and that is only the tip of the iceberg. there are visa issues, where to >> live, where to send your optional kids to school, cultural differences, >> moving expenses (one client of min

Re: Beware: NET-A-PORTER

2011-12-09 Thread Jones, Christopher
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Steve Mynott wrote: > On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 10:13:49PM -0500, Rudolf Lippan typed: > >> About six weeks ago, I was contacted by a recruiter and asked if I was >> interested in a team lead position in New Jersey, and so begins my story. > > I've no particular re

Re: Perl Skills Test

2011-09-27 Thread Jones, Christopher
On 27 Sep 2011, at 14:14, Victoria Conlan wrote: >>> At an interview with Auntie a few years ago, they gave me a Perl script >>> and asked me to highlight all the problems/errors in it. Not sure if they >>> were flattering me, but I found quite a few they didn't seem to be aware >>> of.. >> >

Re: Perl Skills Test

2011-09-22 Thread Jones, Christopher
On 22 September 2011 14:14, Dave Cross wrote: > Interesting question from a training client: > > "Do you know of a general Perl skills test (on-line or paper) that we could > give to our Perl developers before you turn up. At an interview with Auntie a few years ago, they gave me a Perl script