NYCPHP Meetup

[André Pitanga]

> When bringing on a new programmer for any contract that interfaces with the government you MAY care about "school, grades, or the results of a test [certification]"  It may be required by the contract, either directly or by limiting the salaries based on education and/or certification.  
>   

Tangentially: in your experience how have those holding industry 
certifications fared compared with those holding more traditional 
academic degrees?
I'm thinking of a B.A. holder with a Red Hat Certified 
Technician/Engineer vs. M.S. degree holder...
(pls feel free to ignore if you feel this is ot)

Also works with: B.A. + certified Zend programmer vs. M.S.

> But I will never be able to leverage his talents against certain projects because they require certain measurement of skills by cert or degree.
>   

Is he considering getting those requirements? again, just curious... 

> I DO  keep a couple of "what's wrong with this picture" html/php/CF code snippets that stumped certain staff folk in the past.  If they can "find Waldo", they have the skills (and the attention to detail) for which I am looking.
>   

Please share one later if you can :)

-André