Did anyone make it to this? How was it? What was it like? I couldn't make it, but it sounded really interesting.
thanks, Maria On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 11:22 PM, Toby Champion <[email protected]>wrote: > Hey SeaPIG folks, > > http://www.meetup.com/Mob-Programming-Seattle/events/108149322/ > > Join us next Monday (25th) at Solutions IQ's HQ in Redmond! I've just > started up a Meetup group where developers new and old, female and male, > friendly and nice can try out Woody Zuill's "Mob Programming" idea here in > Seattle. Woody coaches a team of developers at Hunter Industries in San > Diego, where six or seven developers spend their 40 hours each week in the > same room working at the same computer on the same project. Kinda like > pairing, but with others pitching in. Woody and I organized a three-hour > session at Agile Open Northwest in Portland a few weeks ago, and we had > just the funnest time. Three hours of this, randori-style, with the "mob" > rotating with the navigator and driver. Everyone had fun, learned loads, > and shared their nerdy knowledge with everyone there. People who knew no > Python were coding away creating classes, and people who knew no Emacs were > typing unreasonable key combinations to make it do amazing things. > > This will be our fourth meeting: we've met at Solutions IQ, Twisted Pair > and most recently at Nordstrom's Innovation Lab (see below) in downtown > Seattle, where we had eight guys working on a toy node.js browser-based > chat app. We choose exercises that'll be fun and help us learn new stuff. > We're beginning to plan things a little ahead: Monday will be in Python, > and we'll probably work on a Qt/PyQt application. > > > > WE WANT MORE WOMEN AT THIS GROUP! > > See here for more: > > http://www.meetup.com/Mob-Programming-Seattle/messages/boards/thread/32645102 > -- Maria Mckinley Programmer and System Administrator
