Pairing: keeping you focused

September 19, 2008 | 0 Minute Read
This post was originally posted on my old blog.

This is an interesting post about pair programming.

It kept me focused and on task. I had someone looking over my shoulder, so I couldn’t let my mind wander and wonder what the blogs were saying today, just because I reached a small breaking point. What is normally a disjointed coding process for me became a smooth, continuous experience.

This is totally my problem. Some pair-programming would probably do me good... else Google will end up making me stupid.

The guys at hashrocket go to the extreme:

"pair all the fucking time!"