{"id":11,"date":"2007-06-24T09:13:56","date_gmt":"2007-06-24T13:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/2007\/06\/24\/certifiable\/"},"modified":"2007-06-24T09:13:56","modified_gmt":"2007-06-24T13:13:56","slug":"certifiable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/2007\/06\/24\/certifiable\/","title":{"rendered":"Certifiable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in May I had the opportunity to attend the php|tek &#8217;07 conference that was put on by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phparch.com\/\">php|architect<\/a> magazine. They included a complimentary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zend.com\/education\/zend_php_certification\">Zend Certification Exam<\/a>, which, of course, I took advantage of. I found out the other day (only about a month later!) that I&#8217;d passed. I guess I&#8217;m now official.<\/p>\n<p>Before taking the test I was required to sign a bulletproof non-disclosure agreement and swear on a stack of Bibles that I wouldn&#8217;t divulge any of the contents, so I won&#8217;t say much. However, being a self-developed developer from the very beginning, I always knew that a piece of paper with a shiny seal wouldn&#8217;t change a single thing: I was either a good developer, or I wasn&#8217;t, certified or not. Taking the test only served to make me more aware of that.<\/p>\n<p>So while I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;ll look pretty on my resume, I&#8217;m just not that excited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in May I had the opportunity to attend the php|tek &#8217;07 conference that was put on by php|architect magazine. They included a complimentary Zend Certification Exam, which, of course, I took advantage of. I found out the other day (only about a month later!) that I&#8217;d passed. I guess I&#8217;m now official. Before taking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","category-php"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}