While it's not hard to distinguish between candidates who say they know Perl and candidates who actually do know Perl, it can be time consuming.

What might be useful is an online application that is halfway between an exam and a survey.

It would ask questions like: "how would you generate and process a web form?", and then have answers like:

• use CGI.pm's HTML functions to read the query and display stateful forms
• use CGI::Application with the ValidateRM plugin
• use cgi-lib.pl to parse the browser's form data then print out a response
• use the NMS Formmail script
• use Template::Toolkit to make a callback-based architecture
• make a custom mod_perl handler
• use my own homegrown MVC system, 'cos all the others suck!

There aren't a lot of "wrong" and "right" answers there, but you could definitely learn a lot about a person from his or her answer(s).

Michael

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