The Foamy Rules for Rabid Tools

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While his specific tool examples are excellent, I agree most with his point that, whatever your tools, you need to love them more than is really healthy ;-)

I think the core point is that you need to care. The chance that you will be good if you don't care is vanishingly small (because you are competing against people who do care). If you care, you can find tools that will help you.

That said, I've seen people who care less but are still excellent developers. Talent can compensate to some degree.

My favourite part of the article:

"Dreamweaver was attempting to be helpful, but the moment it reformatted my code, I threw a fit. YOU TOUCHED MY CODE."

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