This is the peak and trough of my Perl career. I have been rejected from job after job for the past six months after always having 2-3 offers to choose from. And each rejection drags me deeper and deeper into a lack of self-esteem.

On the other hand, I am proud to announce that I am the official and sole maintainer of dbi.perl.org. There is nothing that makes me prouder than knowing that each time I mock up a new version of the website on my laptop (we use HTML::Mason - I think most of the perl.org sites do), that it will be live and viewed hundreds if not thousands of people an hour or so after I cvs update to the perl.org CVS server. This way more than compensates for the current employment draught.

There is really a long way to go with the site and I would appreciate suggestions. One thing I want to do is come up with a classification of the DBI contributions, such as the recent DB Ix::Simple by Juerd or EZDBI by Dominus. I envision several categories such as:

Please feel free to email me suggestions!

In reply to dbi.perl.org is live online! by princepawn

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