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Show HN: Sort your Secret Santa (one day coding sprint)

by woolywonder on 12/10/13, 3:26 PM with 1 comments

  • by woolywonder on 12/10/13, 4:54 PM

    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?