Good programmers are good sysadmins are good programmers

I agree with the headline but didn't find much in the article to back it up.

For my part I look at Perl (or Ruby) and see an expression of Unix traditions. Building on those can make you very productive. I'd say the same is true of Ruby on Rails where it's really a distillation of best practice in web app design and deployment.

This is probably a good article, but there's no way I can read something with margins like that.

I had no trouble reading the article, and did not notice the margins, so I am curious: what is it about the margins that you felt prevented you from reading it?

Turn css off?

No, that's productive programmers. Productivity != competence, and I've seen plenty of examples of this first hand.

Besides which, that approach is not suited to all aspects of programming. If you think in terms of a utility programmer - someone who just tweaks here and there when others aren't capable - it swings the other way. Being able to get the client to show you how they do things and attacking the problem that way can save an eternity of poking around trying to trace a problem.