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Certification

OK, I’m back from two weeks in Italy - refreshed, renergized, and ready to go. So what did I do on my first day back at work? Read a bit over at xprogramming.com, a resource I found through Ron Jeffries’ book Extreme Programming Adventures in C#, and then spent an hour and some change taking the Certified Usability Analyst exam from Human Factors International. It looks like I passed pretty handily, though I wasn’t too happy with some of the questions and possible answers (for a company that teaches survey design (among other topics) HFI sure wrote up some less-than-optimal questions on this particular exam). I guess this means I get to add a little somethin’ somethin’ to my resume now….

It’s odd, though, that since I took the last of the four classes in the certification track several months ago (and came out of the experience totally focused on usability), I’ve spent the last month and a half dealing with and thinking about primarily development topics - in particular, agile methods. Sure didn’t see that one coming.

Anyways, now that all the big events are behind me (wedding, honeymoon, etc.), I’m rededicating myself (again, yay!) to this site. Look for new content here soon.