Ruby - Codecoupled

Journeyman: thoughtbot

thoughtbot is a company that to most Rubyists needs no introduction. Legion are its employees' contributions to the open source ecosystem. My first encounter with thoughbot occurred four years ago when Mike Burns moved to Stockholm and started looking for gigs around Christmas 2011. The following spring I had the

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Journeyman: Sqore

It was Wednesday morning and I was in somewhat of a sour mood. The previous day's mob programming session hadn't progressed in any way I thought it would. To a greater extent than in other novice mobs I have attempted to facilitate, people had come and gone over the day.

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Journeyman: Ruby Tapas

The past week, Avdi Grimm released the two episodes of Ruby Tapas that he worked on during my stay with him and his lovely family in fair Tennessee. For now, I'm not going into details regarding the non-work parts of my stay. Suffice to say, I was adopted by a

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Journeyman: MittMedia

For an excellent writeup in Swedish from the perspective of the MittMedia development team, see Mathias Nylén's blog post. Satisifed with the last few adjustments to the presentation, I glanced out of the window at the landscape speeding by. What had I actually gotten myself into when I agreed to

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Journeyman: Auctionet

Before becoming an official part of Auctionet, there was a development team known as Barsoom. I've known the team for several years now, even before Kim joined it in 2012. But since before that they've been working one way or the other with Ruby and with online auctions. My visit

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Journeyman: Twingly

For the longest period of time, all I knew was that I had been invited to visit and work with a team by Shadowman. Well, at least that's his avatar. My Google-fu skills failed me and as much as I tried, I couldn't quite remember how Shadowman, alias dentarg, alias

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Journeyman: Elabs

Let me preface this instalment of my journeyman tales by this: if I was living in Gothenburg, I would eagerly spend my working days at Elabs. But more importantly, I would want to spend a lot of my free time with them as well. To the outside world Elabs might

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A mob of mobs

It's been over a year since I last wrote anything about mob programming, but time hasn't stood still. At Mag+ we've continued to use mob programming in various ways and contexts; experimenting with mob sizes of 3-7 as the team size and interest wane and wax. I'll be revisiting mob