The n things sysadmins should know about development/progamming

Some rough notes...

• Use revision control. (Don't laugh. I'm trying to convince a coworker of this.)
• Testing: unit testing; regression testing; automated tests
• Testing web apps (scratch db; using Perl's WWW::Mechanize to test)
• Sufficiently important DBs need an API, rather than hand-written SQL (discuss)

I may add more stuff later on. Basically, this is all the stuff that I've tripped over because I'm not a programmer, yet in a small shop it's often part of the job. I'm sure there's more, and I wouldn't be surprised if I'm all wrong about some of these things (API for DB, for example).

But man, if someone could write a book about these things, I'd be happy to buy it.