Don: Today I'm working on refactoring, and that's what Corgibytes does, we efactor software. We look for legacy software that has too much tech debt, we write unit tests, clean things up and change the processes to support continuous integration and test-driven development.

Don: It's more of a mental attitude. I will cover my ideas for how to keep learning and learning strategies, making learning goals and learning mechanisms (because there's various types of learners.) I will have bullet lists in the presentation, but mostly it's going to be different ways of looking at your career. I try to coerce them to think about their career differently. It's more about changing their mental strategy and perspective on learning. Then I will give guidance about different types of tools and blog posts or seminars or more formal training.

There are some of the stronger parts of the presentation that I'm going to be talking about. Maybe you need to find a new job. Maybe you're at a dead end where you're at. Maybe you need to pull different developers in as mentors. Maybe you're not comparing yourself with the right groups of people. It's about directing their career for longevity. I've seen too many people that stayed at the same job, at the same company, did the same thing, didn't really improve the code that much. They did that, and they ended up being valuable to that company but to no one else. And then the technology was outdated or dead.