Panel:

Charles Max Wood
Dave Kimura
Eric Berry
David Richards

Special Guests: Jacob StoebelIn this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel discusses code reviews with Jacob Stoebel. Jacob is a Rails and JavaScript developer and works for ePublishing where he does mostly front-end programming. He talks about how he believes that code reviews can be both honest and nice, and that they should inspire the programmer to want to go back and make his/her code better, not tear him/her down. He also gives fours steps to the response process for giving positive and helpful code reviews.In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Jacob intro
Rails and JavaScript
Are there other places beside code reviews that we give this kind of feedback?
Talking about code reviews is a great ice-breaker at conferences
Developing is a creative profession
Trust must be present for creativity to flow
What led you to this topic?
Used to be a high school drama teacher
It’s possible to give honest and positive feedback
Code reviews CAN be honest and nice
Code reviews should be inspiring
Code review role play
Example if a good code review vs a bad code review
Four steps to response process
Put the author in the driver’s seat as first
The opinion has to be consented
Keep the conversation civil and collaborative
Rule out passive aggressive comments in the future
And much, much more!

Links:

Picks:Charles

Dave

Eric

Phoenix Framework on Elixir

David

Jacob

Special Guest: Jacob Stoebel.

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RR 355: Code Reviews with Jacob Stoebel