NYCPHP Meetup

[Matthew Terenzio]

> someone I would be happy to have a few drinks

Somehow I think you are hanging in the right crowd. ;  )


On Jun 18, 2004, at 8:56 AM, Mark Armendariz wrote:

>> How do people feel about "official" certification as a
>> qualified PHP programmer?
>
> I generally avoid certs and people who chase them, but that's based on 
> a
> bias from a few  years ago as a manager for a software company hiring 
> to
> fill technical positions.   Guys with 4 or 5 networking and hardware 
> certs
> who couldn't change a NIC properly and got that scared look in their 
> eye
> from a 10 node network diagram.
>
> Otherwise, I think having a certification of knowledge isn't 
> necessarily a
> bad thing as long as it's granted properly.
>
> Nonetheless, I'd sooner hire someone I would be happy to have a few 
> drinks
> with while chatting about coding methodologies and music than someone 
> waving
> a signed and stamped cert in my face as proof of experience.
>
> Mark
>
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