In the spirt of re-usability, I'm sharing something I posted elsewhere last week:
The context is that recruiters are pressuring older programmers to learn JQuery (read Community College class) and I'm also wondering whether to rewrite a few apps that I maintain.
I shared this story with a potential employer a couple weeks ago, who apparently was unimpressed. Notwithstanding, it's all true. Literary criticism might be the next best step.
In 2001, Arthur Andersen Business Consulting went out of business. And I lost the best job I ever had. Clearly Enron was a significant factor, but importantly, AABC ran out of money to fund their war with Andersen Consulting/Accenture. Almost immediately, I was contacted by a friend/colleague, Jeff: He was launching a startup and needed an IT Director. Essentially, my job was to develop the tec…
There used to be a detroit.pm.org. And after Stevan Little's keynote last week, Perl- The Detroit of Scripting Languages, I made some inquiries about resurrecting it... Maybe specifically with the intention of hosting YAPC :).
So far, the local response has been positive. As long as I don't step on any toes here. In so many ways, Perl and Detroit are the best of all possible worlds.
NoSQL::PL2SQL is everything I've got.