I'm interested. I love Perl, and would love to work for a company that requires me to program in Perl. Care to share which companies are these?

Thanks.

If you're in Europe, the following companies always seem to be growing their (already large) Perl teams:

http://www.net-a-porter.com/ http://www.lovefilm.com/ http://www.photobox.co.uk/ http://www.booking.com/

Send me a CV and I can make sure it gets to the right people.

If you want to work with Perl, http://jobs.perl.org/ is always a good place to look.

I know of ShutterStock (NYC) and Aruba Networks (Sunnyvale) (AirWave team only). AirWave was interesting, but I don't know what they're doing over there anymore since I left and there's been some management shakeups (some of which may have been positive). Shutterstock is where a former coworker went; he says it's snazzy and they just filed for IPO.

I also hear Blekko is all Perl (it's the dmoz directory-people making a search engine. it's got social-search-related features, too, or something like that.) Apparently they have some fancy sophisticated technology for their backend systems (store big bitfield indexes on SSDs with a disk-backed store for the rest, spread across dozens of nodes, etc.) But I don't know anyone actually working there.

If you have the initiative you can look up their job applications yourself :P

Best Practical in Somerville, MA is looking for perl hackers: http://bestpractical.com/about/jobs.html#hacker

(I've been using their perl/mason based ticketing system, RT, for 5 years)

DuckDuckGo is Perl.

http://duckduckhack.com

If you're in Los Angeles, check out http://perl.la/. I know my employer (oversee.net) is hiring, and I'm pretty sure many of the others on there are as well.

ZipRecruiter is also hiring perl programmers in Los Angeles (email in profile if anyone's interested).

http://jobs.cpanel.net (Houston).

Maybe it has to do with the amount of apps "open" (albeit dormant) at the same time?

After listening to your feedback, I made some adjustments, and here are the results.

This project has been fun to do so far, especially the Javascript part of it. You can post flyers in text or graphics format (you can even use a PDF). My idea is to use it in my local small community.

If you have questions and comments, let me know. And thanks.

You're welcome to fiddle around with it. No login necessary.

Phew! It took about one month and a half to complete from scratch.

I'm using Perl/MySQL and HTML/Javascript.

As far as I can tell, it works fine in Firefox, IE8, Safari and Chrome. Any Opera users out there who can test it? Linux/FreeBSD users are welcome too.

If you have any questions or comments, please let me know. And thanks!!!

I do not know about the status of your competitors. But imagine if a web-app like that could be used at every college and every university. This could have thousands of users. Not as a personal flyer but as a wall that every one could post something of use.

Yeah, that's the original idea. Something that students and staff can use to post and reach those who are off-campus (in my university, we are by the hundreds, each one of us potential patrons, customers, participants of the places and events they promote in those flyers).

I guess that's the way the game is played. Eventually one or more engines will flourish, take off and become wildly popular.

Sorry for the shameless plug, but my games also use a ready-to-use JS game engine entirely developed by me. They don't look as polished as Biolab, but I surely enjoyed writing them.

A demo: http://ralphgoodtimes.com/webgame_chillyzombies.html

Source code here: http://ralphgoodtimes.com/webgames_info.html

Use it for both commercial and non-commercial purposes. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed developing them.