Flashes of Panic

I get unnecessarily intimidated by the thickness of certain tech books. Unnecessary because a lot of books are obligated to spend a chunk of pages introducing concepts I’m already familiar with.

Take, for instance, this JSP book I’ve been picking up. I’ve spent maybe two hours, total, on the book, but I’m well past halfway through. Why? Because I skipped the chapter introducing me to HTML, the half-chapter on database normalization, SQL, and installing MySQL, and skimmed all the reviews of coding in Java.

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