... in NEGATIVE TIME!

Just saw a video of Damian Conway's OSCon presentation (download - ~460 MB!). This guy is my new hero.

"To be a good programmer you have to actually program. This is something that doesn't happen. (...) You start going to meetings, you start doing design, all the rest of it, and you stop coding. And if you get promoted, you're literally promoted out of the opportunity to do any coding. I think that's a problem. If you want to be a really good tennis player, you will go out and practice every day. If you want to be a great martial artist, you will be on the dojo every single day. If you want to be a great programmer you have to code every day, even if you have to find time on your own to do that. If you're up at 11 PM, 3 AM, some of that time at least has to be spent coding, because as soon as you get rusty you start dying as a coder."

                   -- Damian Conway interview