whats your biggest aha-experience learning about programming? mine was probably finally realizing what an orm does and how it eliminates your need need to write sql manually

Mine was why most ORMs are bloated (cough, entity framework), and how a micro-orm can be awesome! :-p

oh really? the django orm continues to make my life worth living. have you tried it? dont take this away from me dawg 😃 @lreading

@biskus I have not tried it, but I switched to dapper a couple years ago (from entity and nhibernate) and haven't looked back! ORMs are great, so long as they do what they need to and not 638950174 other "features". :-p

when i heard about node and how JS is being used on backend. more of an oho moment :-D

The console. OMG. The console. I would spend hours debugging going through line by line until I found the problem. Then a dev friend of mine says "what does the console say?" when I asked him for help on something. 4 years of web dev and that one sentance changed everything for me.

Breakpoints in code and browser really made debugging easier!

Not to be emotionally attached to your work when working for other people.

Realizing that pointers are simply numbers that denote memory locations, and that different types has nothing to do with it. And no magic involved.

'No Magic Involved' is probably at the heart of most of my "aha" moments.

When you start on speed optimization you will realize ORM suckz. I have never used it, and I probably never will.