double shot pair programming considered harmful

Even the greatest ideas have aspects that are not that shiny. In my last post I reported with excitement about my first experiences with double shot pair programming, that is pair programming with an own keyboard for each developer. Now I discovered a side effect of this technique that is so dangerous that I just have to warn you.

The image above shows me, typing a email, sitting in front of my machine in a short break within a pair session at my pair mate’s desk, so my obviously superior Das Keyboard is not available, leaving a huge gap between me and my computer so I have to stretch quite a bit to get to the keys.

We even had to convince an iPhone’s camera to take this picture. Convince a camera? Yes! Here’s what it stored the first time we tried to take the photo.

So you better watch out. After a while, this might not be a glitch of the camera any more.