Good article on how to be a programmer. Link

Ways to avoid risk in designing solutions

Obviously, you can choose a solution that avoids risk altogether :-). Code the “hard” parts of the applications first so you can identify the areas of greatest risk when you still have time to re-design and avoid risky solutions.

Quotable Quote: "It is one of the beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely help another without helping himself." - Ralph Waldo Emerson. Put into other words "Reach out and touch some one. “Most important business relationships are personal ones.”