p0: don't you hate it when
a. you reply to something that was sent to the cgi list
and then accidentally send it back to the beginner's list b. have the lack of coffee to spell 'perl' lower case when
talking about the coding language vice the binary executable.p1: my working excuse is
a. I had a staff meeting and only the voices in my head showed up.
b. The coffee had not yet kicked in.
c. My Spellchecker is out on vacation
d. there was no adult at the keyboard, I was getting in touch
with my inner juvenile delinquint
e. something witty hereOn Apr 20, 2004, at 9:04 AM, Wiggins d Anconia wrote: [..][..]
This has what to do with CGI?
Wiggins, think about the idea for a moment, what if it were you first time in the barrel as the guy who had to do the interviewing of folks who were going to be writing perl code for some portion of the CGI project?
Where would you go to see if folks had a stock set of basic perl code questions that related to doing web-work.
My lead engineer sets them up with a basic walk through on basic so called 'simple perl questions' that are actually a part of a diabolical interegation method - since it starts out with
what is CPAN?
and based upon that he will roll into the questions about building perl modules for CPAN. Which normally fishes up things like have they or have they not worked with h2xs and/or XS code, hence can they do the bridge work to perl from pre-existing c-code libraries that would be required for doing some of the basic web-technology work.
That also gets us chances to talk about things like the t/ and 'make test' as a code coverage concern.
At which point one knows a lot about what the person does with 'perl' as a 'coder' or as a 'scripter' and hence whether they will be useful at the design layer or merely at the typing layer.
Toss in the usual questions about why would one use javascript, and how, vice perl on the server side. lace a few basic 'write me a perl code implementation of say the towers of hanoi problem or this or that, and one check for how they deal with an ambiguously worded coding problem - hence whether they should be looking before leaping - and then one catches their basic issues with actually doing perl code.
ciao drieux
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ciao drieux
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