Was really hoping to make the talk, and (obviously) failed (unless I was hiding) -- how did it go?
On 1 July 2010 17:25, Ashley Moran <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jul 01, 2010, at 8:14 am, doug livesey wrote: > > > Actually, and in all seriousness, conversations like this really hit home > how potentially devastatingly effective pair-programming could be. > > Does anyone on the list work that way? > > I do my best to avoid writing production code unpaired. I've got two > people working with me now. One comes to my office and pairs on-site, the > other I pair remotely with over iChat. (Works a lot better than you might > think.) > > Last week we had an extra person (Marc Johnson) in as a one-off, so we had > two pairs. I used this as an excuse to try promiscuous pairing* as > described by Arlo Belshee[1], which worked really well. The pace was a bit > insane though. Me, Marc and my client will be talking about it at GIST > Mag** (was Geekup Sheffield) this month[2] if anyone wants to come down and > find out more. (Or you could ask me here, but then you don't get the chance > to drink beer and go for a curry.) > > Cheers > Ash > > > * sniggering will get you lines > ** and more lines > [1] http://mitchlacey.com/docs/XR4PromiscuousPairingandBeginnersMind.pdf > [2] http://thegisthub.net/2010/07/01/events/the-gist-magazine-v1-2/ > > -- > http://www.patchspace.co.uk/ > http://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleymoran > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NWRUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<nwrug-members%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NWRUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members?hl=en.
