certifications

certifications

Do Certifications Matter?

Name any prominent software technology, and you’ll find a certification program for that technology. For a fee, of course. It’s a dizzying, intimidating array of acronyms: MCSD, SCJD. RHCE, ACSA. And the company offering the certification is quite often the very same one selling the product. No conflict

By Jeff Atwood ·
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Fail Early, Fail Often

Scott Hanselman thinks signing your name with a bunch of certifications is gauche: If it’s silly to suggest putting my SATs on my resume, why is… Scott Hanselman, MCSD, MCT, MCP, MC*.* … reasonable? Having a cert means you have a capacity to hold lots of technical stuff in your

By Jeff Atwood ·
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