Youve heard about pair programmings benefits fewer bugs improved skills and faster delivery. But what happens when you want to pair with someone in another city country or even hemisphere With the right tools you wont have to relocate to refactor. In this book youll learn techniques used by the most productive remote programmers in the industry to pair with anyone on the globe on any kind of project. Youll use collaborative editors screen sharing secure networking and virtualization to create a remote pairing environment that feels as if your partner is sitting right next to you. Two heads are better than one but only if theyre working on the same problem. When pairing remotely this requires a specialized environment that youll learn how to create. Well use the same opensource tools as the pros to improve collaboration and increase productivity. Youll learn techniques patterns and best practices you can apply to projects of all kinds. These tools are so effective that many colocated programmers use them despite sitting sidebysideyou dont have to work outside of an office for this book to improve your programming techniques. Well start by creating a secure collaborative editing environment capable of handling the lowbandwidth networks at some coffee shops. Then well share your screen using free open source tools and protocols. Well deploy all of this to a server in the cloud so you can access your development environment from anywhere. Then well use one of the most advanced integrated development environments to collaborate sketch on a virtual whiteboard and resolve conflicts. Finally well talk with programmers at Pivotal Labs Big Nerd Ranch and other topnotch distributed development firms to learn how they handle the challenges of remote pairing on a daily basis. With their help and advice you can be productive from any location on the planet. What You Need Many of the examples in this book require an internet connection. Youll only need one computer for most o