From: cathy alomari <cathy1428@...>
Date: 2011-08-12T16:52:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Certification ( Was: Online tutor for Ruby )

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Hi Chris

Actually, I have a cousin who hold either a Masters or PhD in CS.  His
manager passed him by for a promotion because he had no certifications.  I
thought it was totally weird because my cousin had even been a University
instructor for CS.  I have been told that each company/manager is different.

Cathy

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 12:43 AM, Chris White <cwprogram@live.com> wrote:

>
> On Aug 12, 2011, at 12:10 AM, Phillip Gawlowski wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 8:07 AM, cathy alomari <cathy1428@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Thank you !  Thank you!  For the link to ruby-kickstart.  What I wanted
> to
> >> find out is there are "certifications" for RUBY?  And if so, where?
> >
> > Lord, I hope there aren't any certifications for Ruby. Write code,
> > open source it, and create a portfolio with that. Code speaks louder
> > than paper.
>
> I thought about this a bit, as I do agree that certifications do not speak
> as well as code for assessing someone's coding talents. However, they do
> provide a way to help get Ruby more exposure in the business world. Some
> managers prefer to have an objective means of evaluating candidates to help
> provide some kind of filtering. That is why a certification could help
> create confidence in the hiring of Ruby developers. I think it would be
> awesome to see something like this get more Ruby folks hired. However, I
> also think Ruby needs to have a solid language specification before any sort
> of certification can be considered.
>
> Regards,
> Chris White
> http://www.twitter.com/cwgem
>

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