Pair programming is one of the most contentious practices within Extreme Programming - both supporters and detractors can become quite emotional. So what is pair programming, and why do people become ...

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Editor’s note: Farhan Thawar is the VP Engineering of Toronto’s Xtreme Labs. Before joining the Xtreme team, Farhan held the positions of Chief Software Architect at I Love Rewards, the Head of Search ...

Have you ever wondered what Pair Programming is, or how it works? “If I were to summarize Pair Programming in four words, it would be ‘Two programmers, one pencil.’ ” One day I was just listening to a ...

7 tips for navigating a pair programming session during a job interview Your email has been sent It's a conversation, not a quiz, and candidates should look for opportunities to show off coding and ...

Mark Windholtz spent the first 12 years of his programming career writing code alone in a cubicle. But now when Windholtz creates code, he does so with a comrade at his side--one of the tenets of the ...

Open-plan offices, in particular, seem an impressively terrible idea. “Open plan layouts create massive distraction, damaging productivity,” according to a recent analysis by the U.K.’s Channel 4. See ...

An April Fool's Day spoof video from software company Atlassian pokes fun at pair programming. This is an excerpt from that video, "Spooning." Virginia Woolf argued that a woman writer needs a room of ...

Writing the source code of a program in teams of two. Also called "peer programming," each person looks at the code the other member is writing or directly after it is written. The program logic is ...