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I'm now officially PHP certified :)

Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 7:38 pm
by Luke
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/

Re: I'm now officially PHP certified :)

Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 8:08 pm
by Eran
Congrats, luke :)

Re: I'm now officially PHP certified :)

Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 8:22 pm
by Weirdan
You linked to the wrong post.

Re: I'm now officially PHP certified :)

Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 8:26 pm
by Luke
Oops, thanks weirdan

Re: I'm now officially PHP certified :)

Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 8:28 pm
by Weirdan
Ah, and my congratulations to you :D

Re: I'm now officially PHP certified :)

Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 8:35 pm
by Luke
And another thanks is due to you for the correction about the "typo". I appreciate that man. You learn something new every day :)

Re: I'm now officially PHP certified :)

Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2010 3:57 am
by greyhoundcode
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?

Re: I'm now officially PHP certified :)

Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2010 11:12 pm
by daedalus__
luke congrats buddy.

ive been interested in getting mine for a long while now.

Re: I'm now officially PHP certified :)

Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2010 11:34 pm
by Luke
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?
Actually, I said I didn't study. :wink:

Re: I'm now officially PHP certified :)

Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 5:22 am
by greyhoundcode
So you did, presume you didn't buy the guide then!

Re: I'm now officially PHP certified :)

Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 1:32 pm
by Darhazer
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.

Re: I'm now officially PHP certified :)

Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 10:31 pm
by Luke
Darhazer wrote:I'm certified since 2007th, but now I'm interested in moving to another platform, most likely Python.
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.

Re: I'm now officially PHP certified :)

Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 11:33 pm
by Benjamin
Luke wrote:but Python beats PHP any day.
Why? You should write a blog post about it and post a link :)

Re: I'm now officially PHP certified :)

Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 3:14 am
by Luke
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.