SE Radio 714: Costa Alexoglou on Remote Pair Programming

About this episode

Costa Alexoglou discusses the challenges and importance of remote pair programming and the development of the Hopp application.

Costa Alexoglou , co-founder of the open source Hopp pair-programming application, talks with host Brijesh Ammanath about remote pair programming. They start with a quick introduction to pair programming and its importance to software development before discussing the various problems with the current toolset available and the challenges that tool developers face for enabling pair programming. They consider the key features necessary for a good pair-programming tool, and then Costa describes the journey of building Hopp and the challenges faced while building it.

People in this episode

Host: Brijesh Ammanath

Guest: Costa Alexoglou

Topics covered

• remote pair programming
• software development
• pair programming tools
• challenges in software tools
• open source software

Keywords

• pair programming
• remote collaboration
• software tools
• Hopp application
• development challenges

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Hopp

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