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Since finding a work environment where you work solely with top-level talent is exceedingly rare (especially outside of tech-hub areas), it's important to figure out how to maximize the talent that you have available.

What techniques/rules have you implemented that help teach devs the importance of things like: SOLID Principles, Law of Demeter, Principle of Lease Astonishment, etc.?

I work in a fairly standard corporate environment. Initially we tried to just enforce these things solely through code reviews, but it seems like they just mechanically make the suggested changes without really learning why it matters. Even most junior devs seem to have an academic grasp of things like the Single Responsibility Principle, but at some point during implementation that falls apart.

In my experience this has been a common theme across environments (both large and small) that I have dealt with and I'm very curious to hear how others are handling it.

http://www.scribblejot.com

I've been playing around with Google App Engine for a few weeks and this is the result. My goal was to design a really simple app for quickly jotting down notes. It uses Markdown so that you can easily style/format your notes.

I've got several plans for version 2.0, most notably a dedicated mobile version. Let me know what you guys/gals think.