Pairing update and other miscellaneous happenings
Usually don’t tend to post updates unless I have something to announce, but figured it was due since I have had quite the response to my pairing post. I actually do agree that pair programming is very useful and effective given the right task. At the time I was pairing for nearly a week on nothing but CSS stylesheets and that was really just a waste of a pair’s time. If it wasn’t for the frustration that I was going through, I think that the article would have taken a much different stance.
Outside of that, I am now a 100% emacs user when working on projects. TextMate has changed to just a “TextEdit” alternative when I need to edit miscellaneous configuration files and don’t feel the need to launch up the entire emacs environment. Also I have been focusing my free time between RefactorMe launch, learning Erlang / Clojure and getting another project rolling. Hopefully I will have a more interesting post soon with details on the new project and with a new facelift to the ol’ blog.