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I'll put a humble plug in for my talk "Care and Feeding of your Junior Developer" from Nickel City Ruby. It was on top of Confreaks for a few weeks and people seemed to like it, so if you are a junior, or you mentor juniors, check it out.

http://confreaks.com/videos/4659-nickelcityruby2014-how-to-b...

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This is great, thanks. I'm a senior dev who received very little mentoring coming up. I'm now in a position where I have several junior devs working on projects that I'm leading and I don't want to fail them the same way. I'm very guilty of taking the keyboard and writing the code for them, that's something I'll definitely stop right away.

Thanks for linking, I enjoyed the talk. I'm currently in the middle of the "go back to school for CS" route into software development, and it was heartening to hear your success story. Between starting on CS a few years late and spending too much time on Hacker News, it's easy to feel discouraged at how little I know.

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