Urban legend, former IMDb editor, conference speaker, Seattle CoderDojo organizer. Love finding inspiration in dev tools and products, then sharing it with dev communities.
Location
Seattle, WA
Education
BA in Creative Writing, multiple aCloudGuru certification courses, Udemy classes, etc.
What misconception have you had to correct the most?
In 2011/12, when I got my ZCE, I had to educate A LOT of recruiters on the difference between being a Zend Certified Engineer (general PHP cert) and being Zend Framework certified (specific to Zend's monolithic MVC).
The Java/JavaScript thing STILL comes up with recruiters because of sloppy searches. :-)
I've had clients/managers assume that because I know how to code (in the general sense) that I can easily build anything that is built with code. I usually respond with, "I could maybe figure something out but it's going to take a lot longer than you would like. You'd probably be better off finding someone with experience in [whatever]."
"You know PHP, that's great! Can you build us some facial recognition software that uses AI to determine who a person is and their favorite beer?"
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What misconception have you had to correct the most?
In 2011/12, when I got my ZCE, I had to educate A LOT of recruiters on the difference between being a Zend Certified Engineer (general PHP cert) and being Zend Framework certified (specific to Zend's monolithic MVC).
The Java/JavaScript thing STILL comes up with recruiters because of sloppy searches. :-)
I've had clients/managers assume that because I know how to code (in the general sense) that I can easily build anything that is built with code. I usually respond with, "I could maybe figure something out but it's going to take a lot longer than you would like. You'd probably be better off finding someone with experience in [whatever]."
"You know PHP, that's great! Can you build us some facial recognition software that uses AI to determine who a person is and their favorite beer?"