{"id":261,"date":"2008-04-02T09:51:52","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T09:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kubasek.com\/blog\/pragmatic_craftsman\/?p=261"},"modified":"2008-04-02T09:51:52","modified_gmt":"2008-04-02T09:51:52","slug":"10-ways-to-stay-on-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pragmaticcraftsman.kubasek.com\/2008\/04\/02\/10-ways-to-stay-on-top\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Ways to &quot;Stay on Top&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you consider yourself a good programmer, great! But is this going to hold true, two years, five years from now? If you are not going to learn new things, I can safely say that you&#8217;re going to be &#8220;out of date.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you want to stay still, you have to continue moving: being a good programmer means learning new things constantly.<\/p>\n<p>Here are 10 Ways to Learn New Things by Philosophical Geek. Follow at least some of these and I think you&#8217;ll be covered.<\/p>\n<p>1. Read books.2. Read Code.3. Write Code &#8211; Lots of it.4. Talk to other developers.5. Teach others.6. Listen to podcasts7. Read blogs8. Learn a new language9. Learn the anti-patterns10. Be Humble<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reference<\/strong><a title=\"10 Ways to Learn New Things in Development | Philosophical Geek\" href=\"http:\/\/www.philosophicalgeek.com\/2008\/04\/01\/10-ways-to-learn-new-things-in-development\/\">10 Ways to Learn New Things in Development | Philosophical Geek<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you consider yourself a good programmer, great! But is this going to hold true, two years, five years from now? If you are not going to learn new things, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-craftsmanship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pragmaticcraftsman.kubasek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pragmaticcraftsman.kubasek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pragmaticcraftsman.kubasek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pragmaticcraftsman.kubasek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pragmaticcraftsman.kubasek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pragmaticcraftsman.kubasek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pragmaticcraftsman.kubasek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pragmaticcraftsman.kubasek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pragmaticcraftsman.kubasek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}