Measuring LAMP Competency?

An anonymous reader writes "Our company is getting ready to hire a number of programmers. While the majority of the prospective candidates do have good-looking resumes, we are looking to see if we can get some clear metrics in the assessment process. After a little research we have learned that there is a well-established PHP + MySQL training and certification process, and some of the candidates are already certified. There is also a candidate with a good portfolio, a lot of experience, and no certification. Most of the applicants also have some college/university science-related education. So our goal is to be able to somehow measure LAMP overall competency as well as basic computer science concepts such as BNF, data normalization, OOP, MVC, etc. How do Slashdot readers go about this kind of characterization?"pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fask.slashdot.org%2Fstory %2F10%2F07%2F16%2F1427259%2FMeasuring-LAMP-Competency" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Measuring+LAMP+Competency%3F%3A+http%3 A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FahOH8R" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://ask.slashdot.org/story/10/07/16/1427259/Measuring-LAMP-Competency?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/bZ_0-h5S4YS24yNmWmTFDDPZjSw/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/bZ_0-h5S4YS24yNmWmTFDDPZjSw/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/bZ_0-h5S4YS24yNmWmTFDDPZjSw/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/bZ_0-h5S4YS24yNmWmTFDDPZjSw/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/3bxgipp46Cs" height="1" width="1"/

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