What do YOU need to get over that coding hurdle?

As a developer, and one that works with iRules on a daily (hourly?) basis,it's often easy to overlook certain steps of the process people take when investigating a technology like this. I've recently spoken with a few different people, some on our team, some community members here at DevCentral, some part of the gray masses not falling directly into either of those categories, about iRules in different capacities. It seems that once people get over the initial hurdle of figuring out what iRules