On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 23:36 +0200, Brian Marick wrote: > TL;DR: I have an idea for an after-hours coding experiment at the Conj. > Interested? > > > I'm at ALE2011 in Berlin. Jason Ayers gave an interesting presentation. He > works for Cincom, a maker of Smalltalk. They wondered what would happen if 8 > people programmed together on the same problem (instead of one or two). They > set up an experiment in which 8 people on 8 computers could each have their > own interface to the same Smalltalk image. (That meant that any change Person > X made to a method in the system would be instantly available to everyone > else once the compiler accepted it. It'd also be picked up by the continuous > testing system.) > > They gave the team a problem to solve and a set of steps to work through > (patterned after the way wolf packs hunt and kill prey). > Actually, I'd pattern it after Hickey's ants demo. Each "ant" (aka developer) that leaves the nest creates a git branch. They can "wander" (aka hack) on the branch. Returning to the nest causes a "merge". Hickey's overall ant control scheme could be used as-is to coordinate
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