Re: new Perl project / startup - Need advice

2013-07-23 Thread Pierre M
Good luck for your startup Bob, let us know how it goes (maybe on blogs.perl.org?) Avishalom Shalit wrote: my only advice, if you are promised anything, be promised it in writing. (I do know quite a few people from whom i would not require a promise in writing, but they are very much the ones w

Re: new Perl project / startup - Need advice

2013-07-22 Thread Avishalom Shalit
neal stephenson's Cryptonomicon, starts with a story about a tech guy who implemented some other guy's idea for a part in the company and ends up (not spoiling) getting screwed . it is a very enjoyable book . i found it also very entertaining because it rang so true, i personally know 2 people ,

Re: new Perl project / startup - Need advice

2013-07-22 Thread Bob MacCallum
I'm doing a kind of moonlighty startup thingy - my collaborators are not Perl people and I decided to make a (Dancer/DBIx::Class:Schema powered) web API to do all the heavy lifting - they will do all the user interface and production scalability stuff. Fingers crossed it works - has to be done by

Re: new Perl project / startup - Need advice

2013-07-22 Thread Pierre M
Oh, it's nice to feel supported. Individual answers follow. @Dave: Great, thank you! I'm sending you a personal email. @Ash: i'll keep your contact if i have further questions or doubts. It's nice to have several possible persons to speak with. @Mark: thanks for the links. @Dinis: i've read one

Re: new Perl project / startup - Need advice

2013-07-22 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
More than happy to talk IRL. I'm in Hoxditch or Camden. On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Dinis Rebolo wrote: > Hi Peirre, have you read the blogs Ovid has about startups? > > http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2013/07/perl-startups-lacuna-expanse.html > http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2013/07/pe

Re: new Perl project / startup - Need advice

2013-07-22 Thread Dinis Rebolo
Hi Peirre, have you read the blogs Ovid has about startups? http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2013/07/perl-startups-lacuna-expanse.html http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2013/07/perl-startups-lokkunestoria.html Good luck with your new project. drebolo On 22 July 2013 15:39, Pierre M wrote: > Hi

Re: new Perl project / startup - Need advice

2013-07-22 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Or at the tech meet :) On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > More than happy to talk IRL. I'm in Hoxditch or Camden. > > > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Dinis Rebolo wrote: > >> Hi Peirre, have you read the blogs Ovid has about startups? >> >> http://blogs.perl.org/users/

Re: new Perl project / startup - Need advice

2013-07-22 Thread Mark Stringer
These guys seem to have some useful events. Haven't been myself, but my business partner pops along and has made a number of useful contacts: http://www.3-beards.com/ We'll both be along at the Digital Sizzle 10 thing in a month's time. HTH Mark On 07/22/2013 03:39 PM, Pierre M wrote: Hi Mo

new Perl project / startup - Need advice

2013-07-22 Thread Pierre M
Hi Mongers, we're starting a project in autumn with a non-programmer friend. He's got the ideas, the clients-base and the money. I have the time, a pretty clear idea of what he wants, and the mathematical + programming skills. I'm thinking of using Dancer2. I'd like to speak with someone who has s