Along with the current issue containing my article on the ZCE exam, International PHP Magazine has announced a bold new move: they’re going digital, and staying there. Publishing a PDF version every month will allow them to reach an international audience faster (my contributor’s copies sometimes took months to arrive from Germany!). And, while I […]
Looks like I’m not the only one blogging about the ZCE. In fact, there is now a blog dedicated to this topic. So far there are some tips and a list of practice tests. Check it out.
One of the giveaways I’m planning to include on the CD-ROM that comes with the issue of PHP Magazine containing my article about the ZCE exam is a color-coded function reference sheet that comes in very handy when studying for the exam. I hadn’t seen this level of concision and focus on core functions available
If I had to narrow down my assessment of the Zend Certified Engineer exam to just three pros and cons, here is what they would be: pros bolsters enterprise adoption of PHP with a clear standard for quality developers important, sometimes overlooked concepts like pass-by-reference are covered knowing key functions at the required level of
Here is a bold statement: 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. Why? Because while the features PHP 5 introduces put PHP on par with languages like JSP, the truth is that PHP’s popularity was founded on
I passed. 200 sample questions, 134 flash cards, and hours of studying later–I am now officially a Zend Certified Engineer. Three months ago, Daniel Kushner offered me a voucher to take the test for free, “to help advance PHP into the enterprise and to endorse PHP as the leading Web development language” since I am
