With all the talk about Maelstrom (Flash player 8) beta and the coming 8Ball (Flash 8, rumored to arrive late September to early October – right before MAX) is it a good idea to go ahead and get certified as an official Flash MX 2004 Designer or Developer? I have been considering certification for quite a while, but I have never had the extra hundred and fifty bucks to grab another piece of paper that my job may not give me a raise for. My resume’ would love the extra weight though.
I may have the money to get the certification soon and I see that you can get a certification discount on an upgrade from MX to MX2004, but should I? Would you? Is certification even worth it? I’ve met plenty of MCSE’s that didn’t know where the Start menu was so I have a pretty low regard for the certification track. Experience trumps paper, but isn't experience plus paper the best bet?
Of course everything will change very soon, so maybe I should just wait for 8Ball.
1. I had the same question before and I concluded that if my company didn't want to pay for it, then it wasn't worth it for me personally. I don't know of many benefits it's really given those that bothered to get certified. I don't think it's in the same boat as the various microsoft certifications that can be attained.
Posted at 12:48PM on Jul 18th 2005 by Tim Walling