I never thought I would see the day when a famous software developer lived on the same island of Crete, Greece that I grew up on. It is remote, and still had a 1950s switchboard telephone control system when I was there in the late 1980s. But then again, to each his own. This is an excellent article from Java Champion, Heinz Kabutz on becoming a better programmer through a few (albeit rather basic) suggestions.