You’ll find heaps of those three steps to becoming a good programmer recipes on the web, but believe me: they’re all wrong!
Becoming a good programmer actually takes five steps, presented here as a world premiere exclusively for my (two) readers:
- Start by being a great programmer.
- Drink too much beer.
- Sleep too little.
- Watch lots of TV.
- Leave Windows open for too long.
Results are guaranteed.
bertrand's brain grep 
LOL
made me laught. So true!
lejoe you must be the other reader, nice to read you.
I think I have to work on step 3 and 4, but I’m on a good way ;-)
Occasionally one reads a blog-entry with so much wisdom that you can’t help but wishing you were present at all the various life-experiences of the author that lead to it…
:-)
-marc=
By the way: I strongly deny being the third reader, I’m just commenting!
I read ‘you’ all the time!
BTW: at what step are you?
@Patrick: I did not mean to imply that I have started yet ;-)
I think you need more work on your programming skills – reading the number of your comments, you seem to be off by an order of magnitude the number of your readers.
I keep wondering how many eyeballs planetapache.org actually gets on a daily basis!