Here's my personnal experience. I have developed two years ago a similar site. I was student, perl newbie, apache intermediate, SQL newbie, XML very-newbie, good knowledge of linux etc...

I had some technical knowledge in SQL, perl and so on, but no concrete experience. My colleague and friend (student too) was at the same level than mine.

We've spent 3 months full time plus 2 months coding during the night. And we went with a mod_perl (Apache::Registry) site, XML & SQL data, Template system (HTML::Template)

This site was a rewriting of an older one (mod_cgi + msql + print $html; + no cookie + no session :)))
Finally, the site major features were : Job posting, Resume posting, candidature system, application letter, Pro directory ...

I hope this help you to figure out the developement time, but I guess that it depends on plenty of details... So the other posts should be more precious than this one :)
Have Fun!!

In reply to Re: How to calculate development time? by pop
in thread How to calculate development time? by Siddartha

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