There's a macro question of how to use all resources at your dispoal to address coding questions: maybe look at pragmatics' wetware book. the micro skill you h

There's a macro question of how to use all resources at your dispoal to address coding questions: maybe look at pragmatics' wetware book. the micro skill you have to develop: scour delicious, IRC, stackoverflow, Yahoo search, forums for your language/framework. Also krugle, koders.com, gotapi.com, (can't tell if anybody's maintain codase.com for java/C++) Google custom search engines are great, too, carefully choose 20-40 domains to include.