I'm now officially PHP certified :)
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I'm now officially PHP certified :)
A colleague of mine who is interested in hiring me suggested that I should go get PHP certified. I told him that I felt that my portfolio speaks for itself and that I didn't think I needed to be certified to convince people I know what I'm doing. "In that case", he said, "What if I buy a voucher for you?". Well, I couldn't turn down a free exam, so I scheduled it for the following week through Pearson Vue (which I must say is an impressively quick and painless process). I scheduled it for the next week because I had intended to use that week to study study study. Well, like every test I've ever taken, I didn't study and I aced it. Ha! It is an extremely easy exam if you've programmed in PHP for real clients for any decent amount of time.
I blogged about it if you're interested, and the blog post has a bit more information about the whole process as well as a link to a much better review of the process. Check it out...
http://lukevisinoni.com/2010/1/21/zend- ... -engineer/
I blogged about it if you're interested, and the blog post has a bit more information about the whole process as well as a link to a much better review of the process. Check it out...
http://lukevisinoni.com/2010/1/21/zend- ... -engineer/
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Congrats, luke 
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You linked to the wrong post.
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Oops, thanks weirdan
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Ah, and my congratulations to you 
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And another thanks is due to you for the correction about the "typo". I appreciate that man. You learn something new every day 
- greyhoundcode
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Hi Luke, I'm interesting in sitting the ZCE - when you say you study, study, studied, did you buy the official study guide that Zend hawk on their website?
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luke congrats buddy.
ive been interested in getting mine for a long while now.
ive been interested in getting mine for a long while now.
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Actually, I said I didn't study.greyhoundcode wrote:Hi Luke, I'm interesting in sitting the ZCE - when you say you study, study, studied, did you buy the official study guide that Zend hawk on their website?
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Re: I'm now officially PHP certified :)
So you did, presume you didn't buy the guide then!
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Congratulations.
I'm certified since 2007th, but now I'm interested in moving to another platform, most likely Python.
I did read the certification book, it was provided by the company I'm working in (and they paid the certification exam too). It's a good book indeed.
I have read the MySQL certification guide too, but I don't feel it's worth spending $600 for that certificate.
I'm certified since 2007th, but now I'm interested in moving to another platform, most likely Python.
I did read the certification book, it was provided by the company I'm working in (and they paid the certification exam too). It's a good book indeed.
I have read the MySQL certification guide too, but I don't feel it's worth spending $600 for that certificate.
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Good call. Python is the shiznit. I recently wrapped up my personal site using Python and Django. Python is my favorite language. I know this is probably going to get me in trouble at a PHP forum, but Python beats PHP any day.Darhazer wrote:I'm certified since 2007th, but now I'm interested in moving to another platform, most likely Python.
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Why? You should write a blog post about it and post a linkLuke wrote:but Python beats PHP any day.
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Actually I have been intending to do that for quite some time. I will some day soon. Don't get me wrong though. I love PHP. It is a fantastic language. Especially since PHP 5. But I enjoy Python more. It's a matter of style. I like the style of Python. It's object model is just plain sexy... operator overloading, multiple inheritance, all kinds of neato stuff.