Pairing is Caring

As presented at Ancient City Ruby Conference 2013 in St. Augustine Florida.

Transcript

1. Pairing is Caring Avdi Grimm (@avdi)
2. Have you ever...
3. ...been new to Ruby/Rails...
4. ...and felt a little lost?
5. ...been a sole or remote developer...
6. ...and felt isolated?
7. ...used a new library or technique...
8. ...only to realize six months later that you did it all wrong?
9. ...felt like other developers are a little crazy?
10. ...wanted to do more for the community?
11. A Suggestion
12. Pair Programming
13. Got that t-shirt already?
14. Pair widely, pair often
15. Pair Remotely
16. Reasons to Pair
17. Instant Code Review "I was still on the fence until we had a couple weeks at work where only one of us was there... and I lost 2.5 hours on a typo" -- Steve Jackson
18. Sanity Check "If you can convince your pairing partner that breaking a rule would produce better code, have at it." -- Sandi Metz
19. Moral Support
20. Talk to the Duck
21. Stay on target
22. Fresh Perspective
23. The Experiment
24. Consulting Pair- Programmer
25. 60+ Partners 250+ Hours
26. Mostly paid sessions
27. 1 OSS Session/week
28. This was my job (And would still be, if not for RubyTapas)
29. Reasons for Sessions
30. Newbies
31. Help with a specific problem
32. Most commonly of all...
33. "Help me grok TDD"
34. The testing gap
35. Crossing the gap
36. Mechanics
37. 2 hours
38. Scheduled in advance
39. Work on their project
40. When you care, it's easier to learn
41. Hardware
42. Headset
43. Separate Comms
44. Software I used: • YuuGuu (screensharing) • Skype/GTalk/Google Hangouts (voice/video) Also look at: • Tmux: tmux.sourceforge.net/ • Wemux: github.com/zolrath/wemux • Tweemux: github. com/PeopleAdmin/tweemux • ls-pair: github.com/livingsocial/ls-pair • Screenhero: screenhero.com/ • etc...
45. Getting Oriented
46. Taking Notes
47. Navigator/Driver
48. Why should you care?
49. Because you should do it too!
50. Newbie? Learn how others think through problems
51. Isolated? Get validated and re-energized
52. New tech? Get started on the right foot
53. Cynical? Feel better about yourself and others
55. The Pairing Ecosystem
56. Genetic Diversity
57. Memetic Diversity
58. Pair widely, pair often
59. The tech is a solved problem
60. Who would you like to pair with?
61. Just ask
62. Would you pair with a stranger?
63. A challenge
64. Pair with someone new once a month
65. Put out a welcome mat
66. http://pairprogramwith.me
68. Link it to a way to contact you <a href="mailto:yourname+pairing@example.com"...> or...
69. Let the world know
70. "Want to #pairwithme? Get in touch!"
71. "Just finished #pairingwith @avdi!"
72. Let's make our community healthier and happier
73. Happy hacking!
74. Questions?
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