15 February 2009
Rethink – "How do you motivate?"
I personally enjoy and benefit a lot from pair programming. It’s not something I get to do all of the time, but a solid pairing session with a good developer gets me results. I love sharing tricks, and discussing code before it’s written. However, there might be more to it than that.
Hampton and I started to speculate that we work best if someone is just there, keeping you on your toes. Someone to chastise you if you check Facebook, even if they don’t know the first thing about programming. We joked about hiring people to just sit there and watch us code. I laughed!
Well, I’m not laughing any more. I tried it, and it worked.
22 January 2009
Don't hire a programmer if they don't code for fun
Obviously fun coding projects aren't the only indicator of a rock star, but they're a good way to filter out programmers that just do it for a paycheck.
don't forget that those kind of employee are demanding, they know how to have fun at working (if they do that in their spare time). Give them good food.
