In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Aaron Ardiri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I thought that the exam was quite reasonable. There were some things I > > didn't know, but the week I spent studying before hand helped. However, > > I have been doing Palm development for about 6 years now, so my > > experience probably made it easier. > > i personally have not taken the exam - but, looking at the samples > it did go against one of the principles about 'not being dependent > on tool chains'; the question regarding the debugger was specific > to palmdebugger. <-- not everyone uses this/and or a debugger at > all (you dont need a debugger to write good programs, its all technique) Very true; there were some questions that were even platform specific. I only had a chance at getting them right because I had read about them during my studying. > when you write software for a platform; its best to adopt the standard > of the os by looking at its built in applications. if you go against > these, you normally should have a good reason to mess everything up. I don't think laziness counts! There is some stuff that I've written that has gone against the UI guidelines because the client wanted it that way and they have a specific target audience. For general purpose software, I think that the guidelines (which are just guides and not law) are reasonable. > maybe one day i'll bother with the certification - but, in the mean > time i have a pretty solid portfolio of public and private work to > back up any experience i have with the platform. its also known well > that i may go against many rules set by palm just to get the job > done (which, otherwise would be an impossible task) :) overtime, these > do not become issues as the os is improved and version checks can be > made to get around previous limitations (which, required a bit of > hacking/tweaking) - the fun stuff. While I sort of agree that the certification may not mean much, it at least meant I went through the extra effort (I didn't help write the test). Some may see this as valuable. Like you, I have a fairly large portfolio of projects that demonstrates my abilities. -- Scott Gruby Palm OS Certified Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://www.notifymail.com/palm/> -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
