Funny you say that. In some other programming community, when one of the consultancy shops was questioning the community what they think of certifications, they

Funny you say that. In some other programming community, when one of the consultancy shops was questioning the community what they think of certifications, they were surprised to read that I was one of a few who said certifications are useless and especially so in programming. What it also reminds me of is one job interview where instead of the scheduled pair programming session I had to program my 3rd (IIRC) working program for them to show again that I can code something from scratch. In that case I didn't recall all the pieces of the framework/api from memory, and having to consult a reference book made me fail the test. If a certificate of Foo API Expert would have saved me that failure, then maybe it's worth something, but other than that a certificate says nothing about a developer.