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woolywonder

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woolywonder··on Show HN: Sort your Secret Santa (one day coding sprint)
A few of us at work had a coding sprint and came up with this. It's running on Heroku, uses Rails with Bootstrap, and sidekiq for emails (using redistogo through Heroku).

We learnt a bunch of stuff along the way: We sometimes had issues with running two remotes, if someone forgets to push to one of them Working with a Google Hangout open in the background so we could talk to one another (we're all remote) made it easier to avoid possible merge conflicts - "I'm working on this file, don't touch it!" Keep it simple - plaintext emails, simple architecture, ignore "that would be a cool feature" features

We're planning on running one-or-so-day sprint sessions every few months. Any pointers for how we can be more efficient?

woolywonder··on The engineer who fixed his own heart
Tal provided one of my favourite Ted talks on this subject: http://www.ted.com/talks/tal_golesworthy_how_i_repaired_my_o...