Andrew Oliver lays out the 10 Step Program for developers. Here's his points:
- Blog
- Go open source
- Not six months, not 10 years
- Eye on the new stuff, hands on the practical
- Write your own documentation
- Brevity is the soul
- Wow the crowd
- Be realistic
- Solve the hard stuff, know the tools (hmm.. isn't that two points?)
- Practice humility
This blog post is my practice of points 1 and 6. And also one of my own:
11. Copy the work of other smart people