====== The Junior Developer Guide ======

===== Julie Evans - So you want to be a wizard =====

[[http://jvns.ca/blog/so-you-want-to-be-a-wizard/|So you want to be a wizard]]

Excellent Analysis on how to learn and why and what when being/becoming a Developer/IT person by epic Julie Evans [[https://twitter.com/b0rk]]

===== Adrian Kosmaczewski - Being a Developer after 40 =====

[[https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/2016/04/25/being-a-developer-after-40/|Being a Developer after 40]]

Written by excellent Developer, Speaker, Trainer and Nerd [[https://twitter.com/akosma|Adrian Kosmaczewski]] about his journey, some very good advices for (junior) devs in general and a LOAD of good book recommendations/articles.

==== Article recommendations ====

[[http://canonical.org/~kragen/tao-of-programming.html|TAO of programming]]

==== Book recommendations ====

  * Dealers of Lightning by Michael A. Hiltzik
  * Revolution in the Valley by Andy Hertzfeld
  * The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric S. Raymond
  * The Success of Open Source by Steven Weber
  * The Old New Thing by Raymond Chen
  * The Mythical Man Month by Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
  * Peopleware by Tom DeMarco and Tim Lister
  * The Psychology of Software Programming by Gerald M. Weinberg
  * Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering by Robert L. Glass
  * The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
  * Agile!: The Good, the Hype and the Ugly by Bertrand Meyer
  * Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
  * Geekonomics by David Rice

===== David Brady - Loyalty and .. (Series) ======

[[https://whydavewhy.com/2013/08/16/loyalty-and-layoffs/|Loyalty and Layoffs (Part 1)]]

Good piece on the importance of a professional Network
[[https://whydavewhy.com/2013/09/02/loyalty-and-your-professional-network/|Loyalty and your Network (Part 2)]]

[[https://whydavewhy.com/2013/09/04/loyalty-and-trust/|Loyalty and Trust (Part 3)]]

[[https://whydavewhy.com/2013/11/07/loyalty-and-daring/|Loyalty and Daring (Part 4)]]
===== Scott Hanselmann - I'm a phony =====

[[http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ImAPhonyAreYou.aspx|I'm a Phony]]

===== Pieter Hintjens - Confessions of a Necromancer =====

[[http://hintjens.com/blog:125|Confessions of a Necromancer]]

===== Zach Holman ===== 

[[https://zachholman.com/posts/fired/|Fired]]

===== Bryan Edds =====

[[https://medium.com/@bryanedds/living-in-the-age-of-software-fuckery-8859f81ca877#.i52kxd32d|Living in the Age of Software Fuckery]]

===== Stuff that's important to read =====

[[http://principlesofchaos.org/|Chaos Engineering]]
[[http://yannesposito.com/Scratch/en/blog/Learn-Vim-Progressively/|Learn Vim Progressively]]

===== Christian Heilmann - The Stackoverflow Developer =====
https://www.christianheilmann.com/2015/07/17/the-full-stackoverflow-developer/

===== Michael Simons - Good Read =====

A collection of articles, books and quotes that may help to become a better developer

https://github.com/michael-simons/goodreads

===== Ben Northrop - Reflections of an old programmer ===== 

http://www.bennorthrop.com/Essays/2016/reflections-of-an-old-programmer.php

===== Deirdré Straughan - Letting Go of a Beloved Technology =====

http://www.beginningwithi.com/2016/10/08/letting-go-of-a-beloved-technology/

===== Books programmers don't really read =====
http://www.billthelizard.com/2008/12/books-programmers-dont-really-read.html

===== James Long - How I Became a better Programmer =====
http://jlongster.com/How-I-Became-Better-Programmer

===== Kristian Koehntopp =====
http://blog.koehntopp.info/index.php/2026-friday-deploys-and-other-harmful-bofh-memes/

===== James Sinclair =====

http://jrsinclair.com/articles/2017/faster-better-cheaper-art-of-making-software/

===== Generalist or Specialist Developer =====
 
https://simpleprogrammer.com/generalist-or-specialist-developer/


===== Be lazy =====

https://exceptionnotfound.net/be-the-laziest-programmer-you-can-be/


===== Advice for new software devs who've read all those other advice essays =====
https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/advice-for-new-software-devs-whove-read-all-those

===== The Awesome List =====

https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome