Comments on: Remote Paired Programming

By: Luke Melia

Luke Melia — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 20:50:05 +0000

We use Skype + VNC for surprisingly effective remote pairing sessions. A good previous foundation of side-by-side pairing helps a lot, too.

By: Scott Bellware

Scott Bellware — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:51:30 +0000

Beyond any refute, the best possible tool for remote pairing is: http://www.orbitz.com

Everything else is an order of magnitude less effective and pursuing alternatives is an organizational smell. Sometimes you gotta accept the smell, but that doesn’t mean that you should accept it and not keep working toward dispelling it.

By: Joe Ocampo

Joe Ocampo — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 10:25:27 +0000

David,

In a word duh! I didn’t think to use the obviious, I will have to try that out. Thanks

By: Joe Ocampo

Joe Ocampo — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 10:24:05 +0000

Ben,

Free and working is good, I will try it out!

By: Ben Scheirman

Ben Scheirman — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 10:15:03 +0000

What about using CrossLoop?

It’s free and “it just works.”

By: David Starr

David Starr — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 02:00:45 +0000

I have used Live Meeting, Net Meeting, and Windows Live Messenger succesfully. Bottom line is any technology where you share your desktop will do it with a telephone. Make sure you have a headset phone and you are gold.

I have worked all day like this with a developer on the other side of the country. It’s weird because after awhile they get in your head .

By: nobody

nobody — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 00:48:39 +0000

I’ve used Copilot (comercial) but not for paired programming. Worked very well for remote assistance, maybe it works for you too.
https://www.copilot.com/

Very interested in what others have used.