[tpm] Fwd: UG News--Perl Programming Certificate, New from O'Reilly School of Technology

[Dave Doyle]

Randal Schwartz has a few words about this:

http://blogs.perl.org/users/randal_l_schwartz/2010/11/perl-certification---still-snake-oil.html

That being said, the comments are worth reading (including comments from the
teacher of the certification) and all is civil.

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dave.s.doyle at gmail.com


On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Mike Stok <mike at stok.ca> wrote:

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