Why is it that when a programming position is posted, not one mention of a certification is required? There are many types of certifications for programmers such as MCSD from Microsoft and ColdFusion MX Devloper from Macromedia.
It is unbelievable the amount of certifications that a Network Engineer, Systems Administrator and even a Helpdesk Support Administrator are required to have.
Here is my thought. Maybe a programming certification would help alleviate some of the buggy applications that are produced every day. I’m not talking only about Microsoft apps either.
If you look at www.cert.org site, you will find many applications with problems from DoS to Cross Site Scripting vulnerabilities.
I think that if these programmers would be more trained, buggy software would be minimized.
The open source community does a really good job at finding and resolving issues with buggy software. Other application vendors should do the same.
My views
[Jeromey Hannel]
