Nat Bennett
Some have called them a software engineer. They've worked on Cloud Foundry and a few other large systems. They're also a writer, photographer, and speaker.
Stop starting, start finishing
Advice for pair programming that you'll hate
So you’re stuck watching your pair do things. You don’t understand what’s going on, and you can’t seem to get enough of a handle on the problem to be able to contribute. How do you get out of this situation?
Pairing is for peacocks
Pairing gives engineers a way to show off to each other without shipping really complicated stuff.
Tips for pair programming from Air Force Colonel John Boyd & also from Ms. Frizzle
This is great if you're dealing with someone who's trying to kill you. You can use it to overcome some major disadvantages in raw power with enough speed. It's a lot less great if the mental model that you’re invalidating is your pair’s mental model of the codebase you’re both working on.
You think you're doing continuous integration, but you're not
You have a CI server, and you think that gives you continuous integration.