Thanks everyone. I missed the thread on this topic from a few months ago so apologies for wasting people's time and thanks to those who chose to re-iterate or reformulate their views.
The good news is that I am set up on github and am mucking around mainly with sample apps from these tutorials and books so it sounds like I am lined up reasonably well. I look forward to doing something non trivial in the open source community - until I am able to do so I won't feel very happy about foisting myself on an employer! Also, I have been to one Sydney RoRo so far and look forward to more of them - will shoot to give a talk once I have something to talk about (or really feel like I need to learn something urgently :) ) The beer there is very friendly indeed! It may interest you to know that certification costs USD150 (which is cheap compared to certification in the area that I have been working in) and can be obtained by successfully passing a test consisting of 50 multiple choice questions. Not terribly inspiring but perhaps not a bad start to setting a personal goal for newbies (rather than a "hey look at me mr employer, I'm so certified!"). I'll measure the mood on this within the rubylearning.org community and report back at a later stage. Thanks again. Look forward to getting to know this community better. Navin twitter: novemberkilo On Feb 21, 11:01 pm, Dylan Egan <[email protected]> wrote: > I think for the most part being certified is sort of an old school thing, > specifically in the Java/Microsoft worlds and in weird networking/sysadmin > worlds (like seriously? ;)). I even had a person or two ask me for a > certificate of participation when I ran a couple of Ruby workshops a few > years ago and I thought it was really odd, but simply because I didn't > understand their background. > > If you're enjoying the online training I'd recommend just continuing with > that and if you feel that you may learn some more things from the > certification course then go ahead with that, but think of it as a learning > process and not something that'll be useful on your resume (I don't think > I've read a resume with Ruby certification before). Otherwise be on the > lookout for workshops where you are able to interact with other people and > learn in a more interactive environment (faster feedback, etc). > > And as others have stated, be active in the community (head to meetups, hack > nights, etc), meet people that you can gain knowledge from and start playing > with other peoples projects. > > Last, but not least, welcome to the community. Beer is your friend. > > Cheers, > > Dylan. -- 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.
