Wednesday, June 03, 2009  Good Programmers and How to Become
One: Questions Five Ways  The guys behind the Ruby Best
Practices Blog are my guests for this installment of Questions
Five Ways. I'm a big fan of both the RBP book and the blog, so I
was really excited when Gregory and I talked about doing a
discussion with the team.  Robert Klemme, Gregory Brown
(@seacreature), Lakshan Perera (@laktek), and James Britt
(@jamesbritt) were the panel that ended up discussing my my
question about good programmers.. I hope you enjoy this just as
much as I have.  What makes a programmer a good (or great)
programmer? What should Rubyists be doing to become better
programmers?  James Very few of the programmers I've thought of
as really good or great thought of themselves that way. They
thought well of their skills, but scarcely presented themselves
as "rock stars" or "gurus". Very rarely did they proclaim a
solution to a problem as the only way, or the even the best way;
they explained why it was good, and invited people