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PHP Job Market Webcast

Mon, 22 Aug 2005 at 03:25:02 GMT
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A webcast called The PHP Job Market is being offered this Wednesday by Zend. It focuses on the Zend Certification (it's one of the "ZCE Month" promotions), and it features guests that provide a few different perspectives. I'll be there to speak about my role on the Zend Advisory Board as an SME (fancy new acronym I learned that stands for subject matter expert). Other guests include a software architect and a director of open source recruiting. The webcast is hosted by PHP's own Marcus Whitney (of Pro PHP Podcast fame).

My involvement in the creation of the Zend Certification is completely independent of Zend, and I think this has been a healthy approach. I can appreciate that commercial entities have to financially justify their efforts, and I'm glad Zend recognizes the value in helping to legitimize PHP in the eyes of big business decision makers. Robert Peake has been bold enough to state:

I believe the existence of the Zend Certified Engineer Program may do more to further PHP in the enterprise than the release of PHP 5.

I initially had my own doubts about the success of a PHP certification, and I bet I wasn't alone - I think many of us in the open source community are quick to scoff such things. If you're still having doubts, I invite you to sign up for the webcast and listen to what the other guests have to say. You might be surprised.

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PHP Job Market Webcast was posted on Mon, 22 Aug 2005 at 03:25:02 GMT.

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1. Robert said:

That's me. <strong>Bold</strong> :)

Thanks for your work on the ZCE, Chris.
Mon, 22 Aug 2005 at 05:48:17 GMT Link

2. Aaron Wormus said:

SME more commonly stands for Small/Medium-sized Enterprise
Mon, 22 Aug 2005 at 06:02:01 GMT Link

3. Jim Plush said:

Its pretty much impossible to find enterprise level php developers. Here at McAfee we've been looking for two years and have hired one person. I attribute alot of it to wanting someone on site and the high cost of living in this area however the resumes we get are pretty weak. A ZCE would certainly stand out in the pack.
Wed, 24 Aug 2005 at 22:09:50 GMT Link

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