From: John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@...>
Date: 2007-12-08T23:25:59+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby certification

Oh, come on.
Some are against certifications as usual, but at that point what good  
is a diploma or degree?!
Any reasonable employer or project leader will simply view a  
certification or diploma or degree as ONE OF MANY factors in deciding  
a candidates value.

As always there are plenty of other professions and activities  
(medicine, engineering, law, scuba diving, pilots...) within which  
such documents are deemed valuable and even minimally necessary, but  
even in those fields, those documents alone are not the sole standard  
used to gauge merit by any reasonable decision makers.