OK, maybe I shoot a more general question to the group since there are so many great programmers here: how do you practice your craft?
I do it in the following way: 1. Set aside 30 minutes to 1 hour a day to read up on the latest development, be it about the tool I'm using, the language, or the platform, or the framework, etc. 2. Once every 1-2 months, go to Amazon, and look for the book with the best reviews in a particular technology (e.g.: SQL Cookbook, etc.) 3. Practice something that I may not be using currently at work, but always good to know, e.g.: I try to be reasonably competent in at least 2 major current languages--right now it's Java and C#, and 1 dynamic language, which has been Python for quite some time. SQL is always useful, so I try to practice that, especially the more complex queries involving group bys and window function, etc. How do you do your practice? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
