Sadly I couldn't make it either. I'd love more opportunities to try mob and pair programming.
Paul On Mar 25, 2013, at 11:00 PM, Maria McKinley <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
