First, thanks to everyone who came – especially those who laughed at all the right spots. If I didn’t get to your question, I’m here through Thursday afternoon.

There were a couple of questions during the talk and lots after the talk about how to deal with remote pairs. Since it’s RailsConf and most folks are on MacOS, ScreenSharing.app came up.

Chad Woolley, King Remote Pivot, wrote up a great detailed discussion of his setup back in December. It should have answers to your tool & equipment questions.

The key element is the Full Screen mode in ScreenSharing.app. In Full Screen mode the remote Mac just becomes a terminal on the host machine – which means keystrokes like CMD-TAB, CMD-Space and a few others go over the wire instead of to your local box.

But Apple killed this feature as of 10.5.5 – but you can get it back! Follow the instructions at this post at MacWorld – use the second, more complex method – to hack on your ScreenSharing.app bundle to restore the awesomeness.

Once you’ve got the new app, replace the current ScreenSharing.app so you are always awesome:

sudo mv /System/Library/CoreServices/Screen Sharing.app/ /System/Library/CoreServices/Lame Screen Sharing.app/

sudo cp Awesome Screen Sharing.app/ /System/Library/CoreServices/Screen Sharing.app/

Then, run these two commands from Terminal:

defaults write com.apple.ScreenSharing ShowBonjourBrowser_Debug 1

'NSToolbar Configuration ControlToolbar' -dict-add 'TB Item Identifiers'  '(Scale,Control,Share,Curtain,Capture,FullScreen,GetClipboard,SendClipboard,Quality)'

We keep a copy of this app around which we renamed to AwesomeScreenSharing.app, so we don’t lose the feature on subsequent Software Updates.

One last thing: Quicksilver doesn’t index into the /System directory by default, but you can change that as well:

• Go to QuickSilver preferences
• Go to Catalog (top right)
• Go to Custom (bottom left)
• Hit the plus (system bar) to add a new location
• Pick File & Folder scanner
• Navigate to /System/Library/CoreServices

Now you can launch ScreenSharing via QS. Enjoy!

As I’ve mentioned before, I’ll be giving a talk at RailsConf on how I “got more agile” once I was able to practice every day. The goal is for my story to help you in your career, telling some good stories in the process.

To celebrate/entice you to come to RailsConf & my talk, (Tuesday, 2:50pm, Ballroom A) and to thank those of you who contributed your own tips, I have two things for you.

First is a promise of Pivotal Labs swag (content TBD) to anyone who submitted a tip & to the first five comment authors who claim it below and identify themselves at the actual session – no sneaking off to Scott’s Advanced Git talk.

Second, for everyone, is a RailsConf discount of 15% in case you haven’t registered yet. When you register, use the promo code RC09FOS. Note that as of yesterday, the Hilton’s room rate has dropped to $99 a night. w00t!

Warning: a bit of Shameless Self-Promotion follows

Sitting in more than one session at RailsConf 2008, I noticed speakers that were advocating, directly or indirectly, Agile practices. But, aside from Kent Beck’s great keynote, there wasn’t a lot of ‘pure Agile’ on the program.

I left the conference inspired to write a presentation that would help those in the Rails community get better at their jobs.

I had some ideas, but last summer I asked you what helped you be Agile day-to-day. I took your comments, the tips from fellow Pivots, and my own hacks and made them blend. The result is a presentation called “I Rock, I Suck, I Am” that was accepted for the program at RailsConf 2009.

So thanks to you for your thoughts & comments – they all helped shaped my presentation. And if you’re at RailsConf, come on by with your curious and/or reluctant peers and have a listen.