pair programming

Selenium Conference 2011 wrap-up

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Selenium Conference 2011 is over and done with for the year. I had a great time, and want to thank everyone who made it such a success. I think the biggest takeaway for me is that I need to switch over my xpath locators to CSS selectors right away. I can’t ignore the speed gains […]

Dinner conversations

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A few tidbits from dinner conversations: First, a couple of nights ago, Bret was talking about psychological barriers that hold us back. The example he gave was that maybe he wasn’t as successful as a developer because he didn’t want to redesign people’s code. This got me to pondering. I’m generally prone to avoid controversy. […]

More observations

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* Brian observed that it was interesting pairing because it seemed that at any given moment he wasn’t as confident in the code and his understanding of the code as it has historically been on his own (but as long as the sum total of confidence was ok, he was ok with that). He attributed […]

Observations

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Tonight we spent the after dinner session taking a first crack at describing what we’ve learned from the session so far. I imagine we’ll be revisiting the topic again in the next couple of days, but here’s the slightly annotated list of points we came up with tonight… Managing XP with cards is like chartered […]