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Panel: Charles Max WoodDave KimuraEric BerryDavid 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 introRails and JavaScriptAre there other places beside code reviews that we give this kind of feedback?Talking about code reviews is a great ice-breaker at conferencesDeveloping is a creative professionTrust must be present for creativity to flowWhat led you to this topic?Used to be a high school drama teacherIt’s possible to give honest and positive feedbackCode reviews CAN be honest and niceCode revie