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Since I am currently looking for employment, I've been digging around in my network, as well as other places. Today my research led to a site that requested a code sample along with a resume. Seems reasonable. But what should I send, since I haven't submitted anything to CPAN yet?

My background is in web application development, which typically means a script or even a framework application that accesses a database. That seems a little large for a code sample.

I have a homegrown project that's an amusing distraction (it's an implementation of runoff that I did for a git flow presentation), but while all of the 16,000 tests pass, and perlcritic's OK with the source code, it's in mid-development, and not ready for prime time.

Suggestions, anyone? Thanks.

Alex / talexb / Toronto

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In reply to What sample code is appropriate when looking for a job? by talexb

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