Ok, I want to jump off on something that got posted in the comments regarding my whole experts deal (BTW, whether you agreed/understood what I was saying... the whole discussion was interesting).
So I got a comment on the first post (here's the comment) where the anonymous commenter said this
"Life is so much easier when you surrender responsibility for thinking to someone else. "
I use other people (peer review) to make sure that my ideas aren't so totally hairbrained to be unmaintainable or unrealistic or a lot more work than they're worth. Actually right now I'm trying to move to the next level. I know a lot of people who have the whole OOP thing down a lot better than I do. I need to understand patterns a lot better than I do, etc. I have had some things happen in my career recently that have caused me to feel a little unsure of myself in the areas of architecture... I don't like weak areas. In fact when I see that I have them I do everything in my power to overcome them, to conquer them, because what you fear the most in the programming world will the thing that hinders your development... I have asked a number of my protege`s who wanted to get better what did they fear in the programming world... Whatever it was I told them to conquer it... read everything they could on the subject and defeat it once and for all. So right now I need to conquer the beast... the architecture beast... with or without help I will get there.
Now back to the writer's statement. You know the brave anonymous commenter... Let's see... you know you're not really anonymous, right? Let's see that IP Address was... Wait! Didn't Brendan do that once?
Here's my thoughts on your thinking. If you are saying that you never get advice or never try to learn from someone else, then I know where the source code repository for you code is... right here. [BTW, Flame off!]