Pairing is Caring

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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

54. None

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

67. None

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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    by Leo Brodie (Creative Commons, attribution- NonComercial-ShareAlike 2.0) "To the Faithful Departed" cover art © Island Records "Duty Calls" from XKCD by Randall Munroe (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License) "Labyrinth" © TriStar Pictures "The Matrix" © Warner Bros Credits