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Pair Programming

Mark Pilgrim: No ego, no argument, no crap; just working code. It was glorious.  Working with Mark was easy.  First you have to agree to use Python...


All kidding aside: We met twice during the development where a single issue was mentioned in passing. Never talked on the phone. All communication was via e-mail, with subject lines like "tag you're it". Sometimes it didn't even take that - I would notice a new testcase was introduced that demonstrated a failure and code a fix. Then notice later that my fix had been improved.

The biggest problem was scheduling, as we both had other commitments to deal with...

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