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Episode #63: Ryan King of Sharpsaw

Posted on December 19, 2012December 19, 2012

In this episode, Ryan King of Sharpsaw, talks about some cool tools and tricks of the trade for remote pairing, security measures to take, and overcoming resistance to the practice.

http://media.wideteams.com/063-ryan-king.mp3

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Ryan King (twitter github rking on Freenode)
Sharpsaw
Sharpsaw on Github

00:59 – Ryan King Background & History

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  • Started development in 1999
  • Took a break to serve in the Army
  • Off and on remote development for commercial and open-source projects
  • Works for a company located in Kansas

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02:16 – Pairing Remotely

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  • One of the best, short tmux intros
  • Trouble-free VNC on OS X
  • Mosh, the Mobile Shell

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04:18 – tmux

Command to run a shared tmux (replaces the `weemux` program, which is
overcomplicated, in my opinion):

Start with:
tmux -S /tmp/pair
chmod 777 /tmp/pair # only needed the first time

Pair does:
tmux -S /tmp/pair a

08:05 – Mosh, the Mobile Shell

11:52 – Open-Source Pairing

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  • Ekiga
  • VoIP

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15:31 – Pair Programming

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  • Resistance
  • Feedback
  • Yak shaving period

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19:22 – Pairing Security

20:52 – Yak Shaving

22:12 – Benefits of Pairing

2 thoughts on “Episode #63: Ryan King of Sharpsaw”

  1. brand says:
    December 22, 2012 at 1:29 pm

    T. JohnsShaving mug

  2. ☈king says:
    March 21, 2013 at 8:32 pm

    After doing this interview, we hammered out a few of the pain points of the “shared tmux” session, and wrote this tool:

    https://github.com/PeopleAdmin/tweemux

    It needs more work, but is already pretty handy, if you ask me.

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