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/
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