in reply to Perl Certification revisited
You are working in the field that changes the fastest in world history. Seriously - there has never been a field in human endeavor whose tools have morphed so quickly and so completely as computer programming. What do I mean? Well, let's take a look at my first three Perl jobs:
My criteria for good software:
- 1995 - implemented a website in Perl/CGI.
- 2000 - implemented a testtools application that never saw a webserver.
- 2001 - implemented a ETL application for loading whatever-it-saw into Oracle
Let's take a look at MySQL certs. I've been a MySQL DBA for over 2 years. I toyed with the idea for a while of getting the DBA certs and realized that it was a complete waste of my time. Why? Two reasons:
- The certs are someone else's idea of what I should know. Frankly, I need to know whatever it takes to get the person paying me what they need.
- The certs are so behind the times that it hurts. If I had certified when I first started being a DBA (back when 4.1 had just come out), I would know nothing about views, stored procedures, cluster, and everything else released since then. In fact, I'd be emphasizing my lack of suitability for a job with an up-to-date MySQL install.
My criteria for good software:
- Does it work?
- Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?
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Re^2: Perl Certification revisited
by CountZero (Bishop) on Oct 02, 2007 at 07:29 UTC | |
by Herkum (Parson) on Oct 19, 2007 at 15:58 UTC | |
by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Oct 19, 2007 at 16:14 UTC | |
by cosmicperl (Chaplain) on Oct 02, 2007 at 15:04 UTC |
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