Pair and mob programming timer for Mac, Windows, and Linux.
MIT License
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A mob/pair programming timer, inspired by the MobProgramming/MobTimer.Python. Runs great on Mac, Windows, and Linux. Learn all about mobbing at the MobTimer.Python github page, and at mobprogramming.org.
Mobster was built with delight in Elm and Electron
You can play through the mob programming RPG to practice mobbing skills with your team. This is a port of Willem Larsen's excellent Mob Programming RPG. This is a fantastic way to learn about some of the subtleties that are essential to effective mobbing, such as the Driver/Navigator Pattern (also known as Strong-Style).
The active mobsters will always be up-to-date in the active-mobsters
file.
The location of this file for the different platforms is:
%APPDATA%\mobster\active-mobsters
on Windows$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/mobster/active-mobsters
or ~/.config/mobster/active-mobsters
on Linux~/Library/Application Support/mobster/active-mobsters
on macOS(As described in appData
section of the Electron docs](https://electron.atom.io/docs/api/app/#appgetpathname)).
The names in the active-mobsters
file are separated by ,
s with spaces like so: Jim Kirk, Spock, McCoy
.
You can set the author field in a commit to the list of active mobsters. See mobster-commit.sh for a working example. After committing with this script, your git log
will look something like:
$ git log
commit 39d59e7e4c9acb021988b3040f9b7ace5f539b78
Author: James Kirk, Leonard McCoy, Spock <[email protected]>
Date: Fri Mar 3 21:00:25 2017 -0500
Set phasers to stun.
There is a known Electron bug for transparency in Windows 10 (see also https://github.com/dillonkearns/mobster/issues/49). If you have this issue on your machine, you can disable transparency with these steps:
NO_TRANSPARENCY
in the directory %APPDATA%/mobster
(make sure it doesn't have a .txt
or any other extension). You can type the [Windows]+[R] command and paste in %APPDATA%/mobster
to get directly to the directory where this file should go.Thanks @steverb1 for reporting the issue and testing workarounds!
To clone and run this repository you'll need Git and Node.js (which comes with npm) installed on your computer. From your command line:
# Clone this repository
git clone https://github.com/dillonkearns/mobster
# Go into the repository
cd mobster
# Install dependencies
npm install
# Run the app
npm start