HAPPY CAPSLOCK DAY FOLKS. And now let me switch back to regular case. Got some terrific feedback for the email I sent earlier querying about the interest in regular paired programming sessions. There is a lot of interest from many people to have such sessions, and the general perception is it is good to have such sessions. Here is Aaron "Tenderlove" Peterson's advice - via Chad Fowler - during Mountain.rb. So"Promiscuous Pair Programming for all" will be the mantra for this effort going forward. Some quick notes relating this topic:Some people are already pairing even outside of their regular work; some people are interested in getting to work on specific items with others. The Boulder based companies are providing many opportunities for the local Rubyists to pair:Dojo4 has the weekly Code-n-coffee event every Wednesday morning. QuickLeft plans to organize a once a month hackfest during the last week of the month. There won't be one this month though as they just hosted a big hackfest during Mountain.rb. Pivotal Boulder is planning a Pair-with-a-Pivot-evening event where a limited number of people (8 + 8) would work on open source projects or any personal projects, pairing with the Pivots. I am co-ordinating with Pivotal to organize this sometime in November - more info later as we thrash out the details. Foraker Labs is planning a monthly hackfest - tentatively planned for the second thursday of every month - to start in November or December. The november date (Thu Nov 11th) is not confirmed yet as it conflicts with the start of Ruby Conf in New Orleans and many of their staff will be in New Orleans. There could probably be more that I am not aware of. At some point in the next 3-4 months, it would be awesome if we could organize aCorey Haines' Code Retreat style event in Boulder over one weekend. I think its best we build up to it by having regular small size pair programming events at one of the numerous Coffee shops in Downtown Boulder or at the offices of one of the companies. I have added a separate sheet to the Regular Pair Programming sessions in Boulder spreadsheet with a weekly calendar to allow for people to list their available time for pairing with others. Do add your availability to the spreadsheet, or inform the person whose paired programming event you will be joining. As I mentioned in the spreadsheet, I am planning to be at The Cup Boulder next week - Monday to Thursday - from 5pm to 8pm; will be useful for anyone who wants to work on Ruby Koans or try out TDD with Project Euler problems.The above spreadsheet seems to be a non-scalable solution for the kind of promiscuous-pair-programming-for-all scenario I am thinking about - so am considering building a Heroku-hosted Rails app to manage the regular paired programming functionality. Aiming to have it up in the next couple of weeks. Thanks for reading this rather long email. Do let me know if you have any feedback on this idea. Have an awesome weekend.
Cheers, Prakash N Murthy (347) 228 3993 http://twitter.com/_prakash
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