Perl On Call is a subscription service for Perl support. You get direct access to a top level Perl expert for a low fee. Instead of hiring a full time Perl Guru, you have a slice of my time which is dedicated to helping your Perl staff.

You can try out Perl On Call for one week for free and with no further obligation. This gives you the opportunity to see how I can help your Perl staff and improve their productivity.

There are many reasons to subscribe.

And I even list reasons to not subscribe.

There are subscription plans to suit every situation where Perl hackers exist. They range from $100/week for individuals to $1000/week for larger firms.

A full list is in the glossary of services. This explains the many software engineering services and terms. My favorite support service, code review has its own page.

Your technical staff is doing what needs to be done in a startup and also the long hours. They don't have the time to waste with a tough Perl problem. Having a Perl expert available who can help keep the work from stopping is valuable in many ways.

Your staff has its strength in a technical specialty in a field such as biotech. Perl is commonly used but no one is really a Perl expert. The work gets done but you know it could be better and probably more importantly, faster. I can help out with working with the staff and creating easy ways to improve the quality of the code base and of future work. This will let the staff focus more of their energy on their specialty and less on Perl techniques.

You're a large corporation with many development groups. Perl is not the primary language used but it is used in many places around the enterprise. Each group probably can't afford to hire a Perl expert just for their amount of work. But across the whole company there is enough Perl work to make this a smart budget decision. If the cost is spread across all the divisions, it would be a small amount for each but they get a high RIO. Any developer who is using Perl can have access to a Perl expert, regardless of his group or division. This is what I did at Fidelity Investments in 2004. My work as a Perl expert was part of a central technical services group for the entire company.

You're lucky to have a Perl Guru on your staff. But usually s/he will be already busy with development projects to spend much time helping out others with their Perl. Also they may have not have the experience needed to do such things as code review, integrated training and other support services. Perl on Call is meant to help your staff with those services and thus keeping your guru free to focus on your company projects.