I know its an oft-visited subject, But I liked his analysis of how many programmers ignore the spit-and-polish of a UI and focus solely on implementing the model.
Yes. Except I really have implemented caching in a half-day, using memcached. :) (Utterly fixed the speed issues with the site I was working on then, incredibly easy to use.)
That was a good day.
It almost never happens like that - in fact, the irony for me is the example he uses in the quote is just about the only time where it was _substantially_ easier to do something than I expected. :)
