Re: Developer certifications

Hello, If you'll take a look at Brainbench.com you'll see a PHP4 cert exam there. As brainbench plan to become a paid service, their certifications may start worth something sometime. My 2 cents anyway... > Does anyone know of a company which is offering or planning to offer PHP > developer certifications? Arguments against certification programs aside[1], > there are a lot of companies which prefer certified developers, even to the > point of assuming a project done in ASP will be better than the same thing done > in PHP simply because the ASP developers are Microsoft certified. > > While this seems like an interesting sideline for a company like Zend, I'm also > somewhat curious about whether an "Open Source" test could be developed. It'd > certainly have to be quite different from normal tests and that move away from > easily memorized answers would probably be a very good thing. > > [1] We've all heard them before. I'm personally in favor only of certifications > like certain devilishly hard Cisco exams which measure more than > multiple-choice memory. > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > -- Dragos Roua Mirabilis Media, http://www.portal.ro http://www.net-info.ro http://www.analyser.ro http://www.adserver.ro http://www.culinar.ro http://www.cartipostale.ro