I’m Zend Certified! October 29, 2004
Posted by Ben in : General , comments closedJust thought I’d toot my horn here, though most folks that read this blog probably won’t know what “Zend Certified” means. In short, it means that I’ve passed standards set by Zend for know-how to program PHP.
From the Zend PHP Certification Study Guide:
The Zend PHP Certification formally confirms the recognition of specific abilities and skills acquired and developed by the examinee. In other words, how predictably is the person likely to perform when applying PHP technology to a business problem? Have the examinees reached a predefined minimum standard in both academic and practical experience needed to produce quality work?
And since most don’t know what PHP is exactly (also quoted from the study guide):
PHP is the most popular Web-development language in the world. According to estimates compiled in April 2004, there are over fifteen million unique domains—and almost two million unique IPs—on the World Wide Web that reside on servers where PHP is supported and used.
The term ‘PHP’ is actually a ‘recursive acronym’ that stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. [. . .]
So, in short, it’s basically a programming language used mainly on, but not restricted to, the Web. As of August, the number of sites using PHP was right at 17 million.
I’ll blog about my experience with and thoughts on the test a little later on my techno-orientied blog, if you’re interested in reading that sort of stuff.