Anyone who spends a lot of time online blogging, tweeting, publicly sharing projects, or at least one of the above has likely, at some point, been asked for advice.

If not, it’s only a matter of time. There’s something about placing your thoughts, opinions, and projects – no matter how good or bad they may be – that gives you some level of credence with whom you interact.

Sure, sometimes you get negative feedback or negative criticism – that’s to be expected – and some times, others give positive feedback or confirmation and though that may not always be expected, it’s always appreciated.

Perhaps the best form of feedback, though, comes in the form of having someone either ask your opinion on something or how you would achieve something in a given programming environment.

There’s something awesome about that (and something a little scary about it, as well).

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Since the Dev Practices posts are scheduled so far out, sometimes I forget which ones are added and which ones are running on what day. It makes it all the more fun to run the site, but I digress.

One ran the other day that, although I thought was funny, was more “funny because it’s true” and less “funny, haha” or “funny, weird.”

How many of you have found yourself in some type of conversation that escalated into an argument about comparing programming languages and tools and who’s set is better when all you were initially trying to do was to share what things you enjoy using in your day-to-day?

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