+1 On Feb 21, 11:53 pm, Julio Cesar Ody <[email protected]> wrote: > Food for thought: none of the icons of our community had to go through > any sort of certification to get to where they are now. All they had > to do was to share their work and knowledge, and the recognition they > got came from that. > > That's why I question the need for any of this. Because none of this > was necessary to get us to where we are now. That, and the hippie and > me who thinks that gateways of any such kind only help the > gatekeepers. > > I'll reiterate what others said: contribute and show the world what > you can do. Because if you can't do that at all, then there's hardly > helping one's cause. > > ps: I know both ideas aren't mutually exclusive. I just think that the > notion of a certification gets eclipsed to pointlessness when compared > to the ability to 1) write truly amazing software, and 2) share it. > > > > On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Josh Price <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 21/02/2010, at 9:24 PM, Bodaniel Jeanes <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> If certification provides a > >> milestone for learning developers to work towards then we get good > >> applicants to jobs as a side effect anyway. > > > I think the most useful aspect of any kind of certification is exactly as > > you put it: a milestone. > > > Once upon a time in a land far away I studied for a Java certification. It > > never really got me any jobs to my knowledge, but provided a useful goal for > > my self-study, and a mildly satisfying checkpoint at the end. > > > Also I absolutely agree that any certification must have the backing of the > > community. > > > J > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > --http://crazyhollywood.org
-- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
