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Becoming a Spring Certified Professional without the Core Spring Course

Until recently, the only way you could become a Certified Spring Professional was to take Pivotal’s compulsory, 4-day, Core Spring training course. On completion of the course, participants received an exam voucher that allowed them to schedule an exam at a certification centre.

At approximately £2.5k per attendee, the course is not cheap putting certification out of the reach of many self-funded developers and those that work for organisations without generous training budgets.

In May 2017 Pivotal changed their policy. Spring Certification Exams became available for individual purchase without enrolling in the course. I set out to see if it was possible to pass the exam without the Core Spring course and only using publically available material.

I set myself a budget of £250, ap

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cazucito / git-clear-cache.sh
Created August 1, 2019 02:14 — forked from joemaffia/git-clear-cache.sh
Clear git cache
git rm -r --cached .
git add .
git commit -am 'git cache cleared'
git push
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cazucito / canvas text
Last active September 8, 2018 00:23
Test GIST
<canvas id="canvasText"></canvas>
<script>
var canvas = document.getElementById("canvasText");
var ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
ctx.font = "30px Arial";
ctx.fillText("Hello World",10,50);
</script>

Contributing

When contributing to this repository, please first discuss the change you wish to make via issue, email, or any other method with the owners of this repository before making a change.

Please note we have a code of conduct, please follow it in all your interactions with the project.

Pull Request Process

  1. Ensure any install or build dependencies are removed before the end of the layer when doing a
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cazucito / README-Template.md
Created March 25, 2018 07:09 — forked from PurpleBooth/README-Template.md
A template to make good README.md

Project Title

One Paragraph of project description goes here

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.

Prerequisites

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cazucito / gist:2d565f5775afd9745c68f27a53c1b24a
Created May 20, 2017 07:32
Verifying that "cazucito.id" is my Blockstack ID. https://onename.com/cazucito
Verifying that "cazucito.id" is my Blockstack ID. https://onename.com/cazucito