Confession: I am the opposite of the lazy coder. I like doing things thehard way. Whether it’s developing Java in Vim without code completion,running JUnit tests on the command line (don’t forget to specify all 42dependencies in the colon-separated classpath!), creating a LaTeX graphthat looks “just right”, or writing sqlplus scripts instead of usingSQL Developer (GUIs are for amateurs), I always assumed that doing sowould make me a better programmer. So when I was just a fledgling pr...
