Re: turncoat

On 26 Jul 2007, at 17:33, Peter Hickman wrote:
[...]
> How about "here's a problem, solve it"?

Ah, la-la land.

Actually, I lie, I did once get a job like that. It was
2000, and  
given that the more or less unmodified site is still running
some  
seven years on, I guess I must have done a reasonably good
job of it.

> Rather than, "I told the customer we could do X
using Y for Z in 3  
> months" with a spec that seems to be written
solely in adjectives.

You forgot "Oh, we're taking your computer so that an
empty suit can  
play Solitare, but you'll be OK if we give you this rusty
spoon  
instead. By the way, the deadline's changed, we need it in
three hours."

More seriously, my "Perl Developer" job basically
involves next to no  
Perl, and shedloads of trying to intimidate a completely
worthless  
CMS into at least pretending to do what it claims to, at
least when  
I'm not trying to work around browser bugs. Since I am
expected to  
work around bugs in Internet Explorer, it will come as no
surprise to  
anybody that my repeated requests for a Windows PC to test
sites on  
has been denied.

So, how do you create an interesting Perl job? Well,
actually having  
some Perl in it would be a fine start...

Peter Corlett wrote:
> On 26 Jul 2007, at 17:33, Peter Hickman wrote:
> [...]
>> How about "here's a problem, solve it"?
>
> Ah, la-la land.
>
> Actually, I lie, I did once get a job like that. It was
2000, and 
> given that the more or less unmodified site is still
running some 
> seven years on, I guess I must have done a reasonably
good job of it.

I've actually has a few jobs just like this, some of them
were even in 
Perl. I once had 2 years to redevelop an EPOS back end but
it got canned 
when another project screwed up big time and the board went
on an 
outsourcing frenzy.

>
> So, how do you create an interesting Perl job? Well,
actually having 
> some Perl in it would be a fine start...
>

Anything that involves less charts can only be a good thing.
Death by 
UML anyone?

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