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Mitch Wheat has been working as a professional programmer since 1984, graduating with a honours degree in Mathematics from Warwick University, UK in 1986. He moved to Perth in 1995, having worked in software houses in London and Rotterdam. He has worked in the areas of mining, electronics, research, defence, financial, GIS, telecommunications, engineering, and information management. Mitch has worked mainly with Microsoft technologies (since Windows version 3.0) but has also used UNIX. He holds the following Microsoft certifications: MCPD (Web and Windows) using C# and SQL Server MCITP (Admin and Developer). His preferred development environment is C#, .Net Framework and SQL Server. Mitch has worked as an independent consultant for the last 10 years, and is currently involved with helping teams improve their Software Development Life Cycle. His areas of special interest lie in performance tuning |
Wednesday, November 01, 2006What is the most important phrase in software development?
I bet you're thinking "It was on fire when I found it!" aren't you? Well, that might be the second most useful phrase, but joking aside, I believe that this is the most useful:
Don't take anything personally. It encompasses all of the following traits of good programmers:
Early on in my career I will freely admit that I was guilty of not following this advice often enough. |
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