On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 13:08:37 -0500, Aaron Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 07:54, Kate Wood wrote: > > > [...] the barriers to learning and using Perl > [...] > > Managers, [...] expect you to have [available certification] > > You do realize that those are orthoganal, right?
Orthoganal, but not irrelevant. Some people do actually make decisions on what to learn based on relevance to their job. > Side note: If you're looking to break into programming, start > contributing to open source projects. There's nothing more valuable than > saying, "well, I might not be certified, but I did write the software > that runs your company." > > Thanks for the advice :> Given that I did write a noticable chunk of the software that runs my company (in Perl for the most part, because I'm lucky and get to use what works, instead of flavor of the week), I have to agree. - Kate _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
