Pair Programming (mini) Tour in Brazil
Posted on September 29th, 2009 in Work | 6 Comments »
Tomorrow I’m flying to Brazil and will have a chance to do do something I wanted for a long time: a pair programming tour. The goal is simple: work with people in their companies. Not speaking, consulting or running coding dojos. I want to experience the everyday routine, learning their ways and hopefully contributing with some of my skills too.
This idea came from Corey Haines’s programming tours and the work of other craftsmen like Enrique Riepenhausen, Dave Hoover and Antony Marcano from PairWith.us. Hopefully it will be an interesting way to learn new tricks.
Unfortunately I’ll have only three days to accomplish my goal. The good news is that it took less than a day to be contacted by more companies that I’ll be able to visit, which shows I’m not the only one thinking this can be a very good experience.
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Have a good time in Brazil. Please post how your tour goes. Are you going to three different companies, or just one for the whole three days?
Thank you! I’m going to three different companies. Wish I could stay a bit longer on each, but should be interesting as a first experience. Anyway, I’ll try to post my impressions here afterwards.
GREAT idea! I wish I had thought of that!
Hy,
I was curious…
You will visit companies in SP?
Can you mention which companies you will visit?
Thanks.
Fabio Nascimento
I’m visiting companies in Florianopolis (where the Agiles2009 will take place).
Not sure how much I can mention about them yet. Some have asked me to sign non-disclosure agreements and I have to read them first.
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