Description
Webscheduler is looking for an experienced perl developer to inherit the code base of webscheduler.net, a 20 year old profitable business to business subscription-based web application.You will be paid for the opportunity to get familiar with the code base. We're looking to establish a long-term relationship that requires occasional part-time development work.
Understanding the existing code is more important than the impulse/ability to rewrite it.
Months may pass between assignments.
The existing app has a solid structure. You will be modifying the existing app, not rewriting it wholesale (until it makes business sense to do so).
To date we have not outgrown the original design.
New customers can be added and configured without developer involvement. If a new customer requests (and is willing to pay for the mods) features not present in the app, you would be called on to estimate the extent of the modification before performing them.
The application runs on a single FreeBSD 7.2 server in a managed hosting account
There are 4 mysql databases with a total 400MB of data in the databases. The largest db has 200 MB of data and the largest table has 400k rows with most tables under 10k rows. There are 20 database tables per customer.
You will work with an experienced sysadmin.
You will be expected to setup a local dev site for your personal development and testing. Choice of source control and development tools are left to you. We use git for producing daily diffs of what changed in the customer database tables.
Webscheduler is a virtual company with the principals located in the SF bay area (East Bay) and you will be required to travel for an initial meeting with the Managing Partner. After that initial meeting, telecommuting is OK and the norm.
Desired skills:
- PERL CGI -
- DBI::MySQL -
- Knowledge of anonymous hashes and dereferencing them -
- Web 1.0 application techniques -
- CGI::Sessions - Or have coded session management in other languages.
- Creating custom PERL modules -
- HTML/CSS/JS -
- Patience and good debugging skills -
- jQuery -
- Knowledge of BSD -
- git version control -