Junior developers and pair programming
Not all of us like doing pair programming with junior developers. It can be hard to explain some concepts that are obvious to you, your short-term productivity can suffer, they can be too irritating with their stupid questions and so on. However, pair programming is one of the best ways to learn and teach and to spread knowledge among team members. After all, if you have to rely on that junior (or not-so-junior) developer, you want him to be as smart and competent as possible, don't you? Here is a couple of tricks that help me make the process more efficient and less painful for me.