On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 07:56:09AM -0700, Nathan Torkington wrote:
> J. J. Horner writes:
> > I'd be interested in something like this.
>
> Certification is a quagmire. If it's done well, it takes a lot of
> work by the certification authority, and that makes it expensive for
> those certified. If it's done poorly, it's useless and is just a
> moneymaker for the certification authority.
Agreed.
> I think that certification is only really meaningful when you have too
> many applicants and need to give the employers a sense of how good the
> applicants are.
I'd add that certifaction is perceived as being a hallmark of a "serious
technology" by PHBs that don't know better. From our point of view,
that makes certification a viable "marketing" tool: look this technology
is sophisticated and advanced enough that there's a certification
program for it.
But the lack of demand for well done/costly certification amongst
mod_perl programmers kills it right now. The crying deficit of us means
that none of us needs to pay for certification to get the next job. I'd
probably do it so I could maybe charge more and to find and help fill
out areas in my knowledge that I've missed the classes in the scholl of
hard knocks, but then again, maybe not.
- Barrie
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