Choose fast editor, fast compiler, and write software with fast execution time. This way you can make ten times as many mistakes as normal programmer and still become better than others. That's probably one the reasons google applications are so popular. Web development is filled with nasty bugs, and writing more software on buggy platform is pain the ass. But the response time between editing code and seeing outcome is so fast that it's still easier to make that mountain of garbage work than extending c++ programs. :)