Dragon vs. Hydra - Competing Development Styles

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday May 18, 2008 @01:17AM from the head-to-heads dept.

peterofoz writes "You may recall that we discussed a company which was recruiting talent with a puzzle last December. This turned out to be n-Brain releasing a new product that allows multiple editors to modify the same code in real time to support the collaborative programming paradigm. Now they're back with another challenge: 'Are two heads really better than one? N-BRAIN, Inc. intends to definitively answer this question by sponsoring the Hydra Versus Dragon Coding Competition, a Reality TV-style battle between the world's finest software developers.' Mark June 23rd on your calendars." While n-Brain clearly intends this to promote their software, it will be interesting to see if the competition results support their theory of collaborative development.

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That's good for RealityTV, but.. by Cyberax · 2008-05-18 01:35 · Score: 4, Insightful

That's good for RealityTV but in real world I wouldn't want to work on a software where I have to struggle with other people editing the same file code at the same time.

In 99% of situations you should just modularize your code to minimize conflicts, not try to make them 'nicer'.