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If seriously following the principles in the Agile Manifest, making pair programming distributed in the agile context seems to be a paradox. On the other hand, already the first international conference for Extreme Programming presented a notable publication related to distributed collaboration with the Team Streams system that provided support for asynchronous interaction. Over the years, several tools and plug-ins were developed for DPP. Among these you will find Saros, available as Eclipse and IntelliJ plug-ins providing synchronization of workspaces and visibility while extending views and perspectives with team supporting features. During this work Saros was iteratively extended by a distributed, SVG-based whiteboard.

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Michael Jurke is a professional Freelancer specializing in Web Technologies, UI and Model-Driven Architecture. His thesis treated further subjects like prototype driven development, concurrent editing of SVG, pair and agile programming.Apart from his technical knowledge, he lived in different countries and speaks a couple of languages.

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