Thu Oct 12 07:48:27 GMT 2006 Pragmatic Programmer*Dave Thomas*: You have to accept the fact that you're not going to get it right the first time. And you're not going to get it perfectly right the second or third time. You'll never get it perfectly right, but along the way you can get better and better . To do that, you have to discipline yourself to apply a reflective process to what you do. *Bill Venners*: What do you mean by reflective process? *Dave Thomas*: You always have to look back at what you did and ask, "How did I do that? Could I have done it better? Did I have to do it at all?" Get into the habit of doing that with everything you do. That way, you're consciously forcing yourself to reevaluate the way you do things. Full message: http://www.artima.com/intv/metadataP.html (google search) (amazon search) second |