Perl Catalyst Developers - An endangered species?

tachyon-II has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

It's been a while since I've had anything to do with Perl so I consider myself out of touch.

I have control of a need it yesterday web development project that is not on track and it's not in Perl.

At this late stage I suspect only Perl can save the day. I have the funds to support a parallel effort and would like guidance about whether there are any Perl Catalyst MVC developers out there, and if so where do I look?

I'm aware of jobs.perl.com and oDesk.com so I'm looking for other suggestions.

Kind Regards

James

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Re: Perl Catalyst Developers - An endangered species? by moritz (Cardinal) on Jun 22, 2011 at 12:26 UTC
Take a look at shadowcat, "home" of several Catalyst core developers. Perl 6 - second systems done right	[reply]
Re: Perl Catalyst Developers - An endangered species? by metaperl (Curate) on Jun 22, 2011 at 14:31 UTC
At this late stage I suspect only Perl can save the day. I have the funds to support a parallel effort and would like guidance about whether there are any Perl Catalyst MVC developers out there, and if so where do I look? I strongly suggest you look at Mojolicious::Lite. The chief developer of Catalyst moved on and learned from Catalyst to create `Mojo(licious(::Lite)?)?` I've never enjoyed developing web apps more. You can get going FAST. I dont know what I would've done without it. I'm developing something that runs on both windows and linux and Mojo is doing everything brilliantly. The mantra of every experienced web application developer is the same: thou shalt separate business logic from display. Ironically, almost all template engines allow violation of this separation principle, which is the very impetus for HTML template engine development. -- Terence Parr, "Enforcing Strict Model View Separation in Template Engines"	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Perl Catalyst Developers - An endangered species? by stonecolddevin (Parson) on Jun 22, 2011 at 18:04 UTC
irc.perl.org #catalyst is what I'd recommend. some information on your project would be very helpful, as it all depends on what kind of migration you think you need and what is actually feasible. Three thousand years of beautiful tradition, from Moses to Sandy Koufax, you're god damn right I'm living in the fucking past	[reply]
Re: Perl Catalyst Developers - An endangered species? by locked_user sundialsvc4 (Abbot) on Jun 22, 2011 at 15:50 UTC
It would help us if you could explore the notion of exactly how this project is “not on track,” and from that, why you opine that “only Perl (and specifically, Catalyst) can save the day.” Unfortunately, “starting over” is the most expensive alternative that is to be considered ... even though it is, of course, the first one to be considered. Perhaps the project can become more manageable through the imposition of formal project-management disciplines? The root causes of such problems in my experience are not strongly linked to the particular technology that is being used, but rather, to how it is being used, and also to how the overall project is being administered. (It certainly goes without saying that I recognize fully that you are the responsible-executive on this project, and that none of my comments are in any way whatsoever aimed at you!! But I’ll say it anyway.)