I’m very curious about our inter-office (Munich and St. Petersburg) pair programming. Will it work or no? How will it go? Where should we start with?

First idea is to establish chat and voice chat as well – skype seems to be the best candidate. Also we should somehow establish desktop sharing. Andrea tells me that she already set up some VNC server on her MAC. I never worked with VNC software before, so a quick search in google gives me several good candidates to start with (RealVNC for Windows and tightvnc for linux). Set up clients on both OS. Trying to use RealVNC – oops, it cannot connect to VNC server on MAC. 

After investigation it appeared that there’s a known problem with connecting to MAC via VNC protocol. Workarounds don’t work. Trying to use tightvnc…works fine! I can see Andrea’s desktop, can even manipulate her mouse, but not keyboard. We decide to establish “secretary-boss” approach for the first try. Andrea types and I watch her typing and correct or propose new ideas. Pretty funny, but a bit slow and non-effective way. Let’s see what will be tomorrow…