Your boss's expectations of "results by Monday" are unrealistic given your existing level of knowledge in the problem domain of web development. I'm not saying this to discourage you, nor to get you canned. I think that if I were your boss I would appreciate knowing early on what is and isn't realistic. Some bosses would be less forgiving, but others will be glad to work with you. It all depends on your relationship with him or her, and whether he or she is willing to work with you.

Sit down with your boss and show him Twitter Bootstrap. It can be used easily with modern web frameworks like Dancer, Mojolicious and Catalyst. Dancer and Mojolicious have the lowest learning-barrier to entry of the three largest Perl-based modern server-side frameworks. And Bootstrap offers much of what you can do with jQuery, without as much of a learning curve. Bootstrap is a CSS framework that offers pop-ups, modals, and other "javascriptish" features, without forcing you to get into the low level details.

If I had to get results by Monday, including pop-up dialogues, I myself would start by downloading Twitter Bootstrap.


Dave

In reply to Re: How do I mix up Perl and jQuery (for beginners) by davido
in thread How do I mix up Perl and jQuery (for beginners) by eyekona

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