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Resources

Ready to broaden your pair-programming horizons, but need some help getting started? Here are some links to talks, guides, and tools for successfully pair-programming beyond your office.

Guides & Talks

• Remote Pairing: Collaborative Tools for Distributed Development is a book by Joe Kutner
• Sam Livingston-Gray talks about Tools for Pair Programming (video). See also the ls-pair README, which distills many of the best practices Sam and others at LivingSocial have evolved for remote pairing.
• Sam also has a tmux Quick Start screencast to get you all orientated with this terminal power tool.
• Joe Moore has a whole blog dedicated to remote pair-programming.
• "Build a Command Line Remote Pairing Setup", from Zee Spencer
• The WideTeams Podcast often features discussions of remote pair-programming.
• Evan Light's "The Remote Pairing Guy" blog post.
• Steven Haddox's "Remote Pairing with ssh, tmux, and vim" blog post.
• CoderMatch is a site to find a pair programming buddy to code with locally or remotely.
• Pair-with-me.herokuapp.com is an aggregator for #pairwithme tweets, by Marty Hines.
• airpair.com lets developers easily list themselves for paid pairing.
• Ruby Rogues Podcast episode #26 talked about pair programming.
• Angela Harms has a talk about common pitfalls.
• letspair.net is a site where you can schedule your pair programming sessions or join someone else's.
• Remote pair programmers meetup is a virtual meetup for finding pairs.
• How to Build the Ultimate Remote Pair Programming Environment by Daniel P. Clark. Safely remotely pair with a sandboxed dekstop environment.

Tools

• tmux Allows more than one person to connect to a single terminal session.
• Wemux "enhances tmux to make multi-user multiplexing both easier and more powerful".
• ls-pair is a set of tools for remote pairing built around Wemux, from LivingSocial.
• Tweemux A slim wrapper around tmux to ease remote pairing setup.
• github-auth SSH key management for Github users. Easily add/remove any Github user's public ssh keys.
• Google+ Hangouts have screen-sharing and remote desktop control capabilities with integrated audio and video chat.
• Screenhero is a screen-sharing app for Mac/Windows, optimized for collaboration. It includes features like dual mouse pointers, so you can see what your pairing partner is pointing at.
• Syme sets up disposable EC2 nodes for collaborating on GitHub projects via ssh and tmux.
• Join.me Simple, free and awesome cross-platform (mac/win/mobile) screensharing for multiple users, with remote control, audio and text chat.
• Remote Pair Chef Quickly build customized EC2 instances bootstrapped with RVM, TMUX, Vim and pre-built users in a single command.
• Cloud9 is an online IDE that allows "developers around the world to edit the same code and chat together in real-time". You can sign in with your github account and clone repos straight into it.
• CoVim is a plugin that adds multi-user, real-time collaboration to Vim.
• Floobits Floobits lets you use native editors to work on the same files as others in real-time.
• tmate Instant terminal sharing
• TeamViewer screen-sharing app for Mac/Windows/Linux, allows remote control and you can change color/quality settings to improve latency. Free for personal use.
• Slack /pair command Slack slash command your team can use to see who is free to pair on what.

Sharing the (commit) credit

• git-pairing Share code authorship when pairing and using git/github with commands like git pair, git solo and git whoami
• git-duet Successor to git-pair — truly share "credit" between pairs' github accounts.
• Did we git pair? includes Chef recipes for sharing commit authorship
• hitch Git author attribution helper for pair programmers. Also see a guide on the changelog blog