Chanced upon this article. I used to work in a very small company long time back. We were a small team and as all of us were relatively fresh out of college, we were on our own when it came to using technology, architecture etc.
Lot of the stuff in the article (setting goals, keeping oneself updated etc) are common sense but it really does not strike you when any work you take up is priority and has a hard deadline.
Although I learnt a lot of stuff (mainly fire-fighting :)) which has helped me a lot, I wish I had chanced upon this article or followed the basic premise to become a better software professional.
But as they say, learning never ends in this field :) so its never too late.
