On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Vagmi Mudumbai <vagmi.mudum...@gmail.com>wrote:
> If you are hiring, which do you think is better? A guy with an > active blog about his experiences and learnings of whatever technology > he is working on or a guy who just has a certificate on his resume. > The guy with an active blog. you pay several tens of thousands to get that database entry and a > printed parchment. You must understand that certification is a viable > and profitable revenue source for a company like MS/Oracle/Sun. They > will never tell you that their certificates are worthless. > True. But how do I find out how good I am? How do i gauge my skills if I am to work for a professional organization dealing with Linux ? certifications?? vendor lock-in... > http://lpi.org - Yes, I know it's expensive ( 160USD - 260USD) but Vendor neutral > We are hackers and we like to create things. Reinventing the wheel is not a good idea ;-) so "improvise things " And building things requires you to focus single handedly on that task. > They need to focus on one project, use all the resources that they can > exploit and finish it. This is way harder than it sounds and thats why many > people do not do > it. Agreed.. _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
