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How does one know a great book with out consuming some junk? We learn when we do it wrong up much more often than when do it right. It is not always clear in the beginning that put…

I agree that the effort is large, and the browser platforms are constantly in motion. I was mostly just musing about it. My gut feeling is that getting Java script up to speed on t…

This is kind of cool, but who is going to digest all of it? The techno folks may have some technology pieces working, but nobody out in the main world would be able to figure it ou…

I am you. I'm in my early 40s. I worked for BigCorp 11 years in my position. I had a long commute. I made lots of money. I have a house and 3 small children. I wasn't seeing enough…

I would have to agree with thinking as well. When I first started programming I would just brute force my through whatever problem. After some years I realized that the 3rd or 4th …

I would just say this for folks who don't like unit tests because it takes longer. Push yourself away from the keyboard and think about it. When one writes codes one writes unit te…

I would agree, and add to this comment. If I can't figure out what the sensible name is then what exactly is it that I am writing? I have found that writing the wrong name even for…

I used to think in terms of methods and data structures, say about 5 years ago. I was thinking bottom up. I learned (slowly) that I could not sufficiently communicate to the busine…

When I first read the question I almost fell off my chair. The answer is YES. I have used source safe, star team (briefly), cvs, svn and now mercurial. I haven't used Git but I und…

Do some research on a fellow by the name of Napolean Hill you may find it interesting. You will not likely have a better opportunity than now to do this. It sounds fun to me and I …

Missing the point. Every "Hell yeah" project does not turn out to be easy or even fun. In fact I agree that finishing any project is usually tough, some aspect of it sucks. Why are…

Why do you think you are not sharp? I bet your problem is that all of your problems in your current business domain are solved and you are bored, not dull. What is a little dull is…

I agree. In other words correlation is not causation.

I agree it is tough. Coming from java land it always seems like one is either mixing java in the html or html in java. I have also never been totally convinced about the separate p…

For me when I first encountered this particular post on REST a couple of years ago it was like an ah ha moment. SOAP is just one complex layer. Struts is another, actually a contai…

Completely agree. I once had somebody ask me during an interview to write a binary search on the white board. Very tough in that circumstance for me, completely blew it. Interestin…

I prefer JSON. Though I do agree with the other comments that xml is more readable if the structure is big, and that one can easily (and perhaps should) do both. In practice I have…