Dear friends,
I cant help to share the feelings right away with you now. Just came back after we finished the exam.

Its great event of joy for me and my friend Abdullah. Because we sat together on the same day. And I think this is the first ever in Bangladesh that two ZCE passed at the same day. To tell you the truth, I had an attempt on 19th February this year but that was kind of rushed sitting and thats why duely failed yet was very close to passing score :(
But the question is why I decided to go for ZCE anyway? well first and foremost is the inspiration from Hasin Hayder, who is entitled to the BD PHP community as the pioneer and guru and the Geek on PHP. Though I started learning php on 2003, I was not very strong at it since last year. But Hasin bro kept inspiring that you can become one and you should give it a good try. On that time we (Ferdous [9th ZCE] and me) were beginner level developer at the Saifur's corporate and started a training on PHP. Most amazingly Hasin bro inspired us making the syllabus one of the best in Bangladesh. We included so many things in it. And we taught the students the best practices in development, design and DB etc. We introduced them with the common CMSs, Forums and even Frameworks. We introduced them PHP and jQuery frameworks too!
One of our students were Sadiqur Rahman(the wonder boy and 8th ZCE!), who enrolled their saying he wants to become a ZCE! :D
So, it was our challenge from then on. Building our bases to achieve good better best practices in the PHP development industry. We inspired all students to become bloggers, tweeterers and getting fed from the best resources on the web on what he want to excell.

Even this morning at 5am when Hasin bro asked how is the preparation? I said not upto my intentions. He said some inspiring words that I calmed myself little bit. While taking the exam I was semi nervous. Kind of knew I'm winning it, but didn't make the mistake what I did last time(I submittend the exam in 57 minutes and reviewed only 3 questions and came out 33minutes ago). Today I almost reviewed all 70 of them and started counting. Was little nervous... but when the count reached more than 61! I stopped :D and submitted it! et voila I got congratulations from Zend.com

I kind of knew my friend Abdullah(he had an attempt last month and did score near to passing as well!) who started just 40 minutes after me was gonna pass as well, so it was a great feeling indeed.

Hope you guys didn't mind this long writing. I just want to inspire new comers to PHP. We in Bangladesh should rise up and give it a good try. We need to outsource more of our intellect. We need to have our stand and we need to build a Very Best community. We need to do campaigns like WordCamp, ZendCon, PHPCon and inspire our fellow developers to become ninjas and beat the rest of the world.

I would like to share with you my old blog writing in Bangla you'd notice I wanted to see my name there very much(at least on 10th but oh well I made a milestone by sitting together two old friends together and won it) ;)  here's the link: http://lenin9l.wordpress.com/2008/12/17/%e0%a6%9c%e0%a7%87%e0%a6%a1%e0%a6%b8%e0%a6%bf%e0%a6%87/

Thanks

Lenin | http://twitter.com/nine_L

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