Preface
"What do you want to do when you graduate college?" asked a family friend. "I'm not sure. I really like building web applications," I said. "Maybe I can do that." The response: "No, there's no future in that. Pick something else." Wow, was he wrong!
That was a conversation I had about 20 years ago. It was truly a demoralizing comment. I had begun experimenting with the web and programming in high school in the late 90s. However, burdened with this defeat, I naively accepted it as truth and kept web development as a hobby. Ultimately, I went on to law school and launched a career as a lawyer. Don't get me wrong, I loved being a lawyer and I loved the work that I did. But my years as an attorney drove me back to software development, ultimately ...
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