Chapter 1: My Coworker, The Programmer A shell of a man—more of a parrot than a person. My boss, a true believer in the sacred rite of Pair Programming, chained myself and this "programmer"-colleague together like conjoined twins from different planets. We shared a keyboard, but not a brain. Lord, not even close. "Hold up. I’ve got an idea. Gimme the keyboard real quick." An idea. Yes. The same way a toddler has “an idea” to stick a fork in a wall socket. I was halfway through constructing somet...