Editor’s note: Farhan Thawar is the VP Engineering of Toronto’s Xtreme Labs. Before joining the Xtreme team, Farhan held the positions of Chief Software Architect at I Love Rewards, the Head of Search ...

Have you ever wondered what Pair Programming is, or how it works? “If I were to summarize Pair Programming in four words, it would be ‘Two programmers, one pencil.’ ” One day I was just listening to a ...

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At Stats Perform, Engineering Manager Brad Pederson said that having two employees simultaneously think about different ways to solve a problem has led to an improved set of solutions. Those solutions ...

It’s a conversation, not a quiz, and candidates should look for opportunities to show off coding and communication skills. Teamwork and collaboration are more important than ever as remote work ...

Open-plan offices, in particular, seem an impressively terrible idea. “Open plan layouts create massive distraction, damaging productivity,” according to a recent analysis by the U.K.’s Channel 4. See ...

An April Fool's Day spoof video from software company Atlassian pokes fun at pair programming. This is an excerpt from that video, "Spooning." Virginia Woolf argued that a woman writer needs a room of ...