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A mob/pair programming timer, inspired by theMobProgramming/MobTimer.Python. Runs great on Mac, Windows, and Linux. Learn all about mobbing at the MobTimer.Python github page, and atmobprogramming.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 ofWillem Larsen's excellentMob Programming RPG. This is a fantastic way to learn about some of the subtleties that are essential to effective mobbing, such as theDriver/Navigator Pattern (also known as Strong-Style).

• Pick a familiar exercise in a familiar language if possible so you can focus on learning mobbing skills, not a new language, etc.

The active mobsters will always be up-to-date in theactive-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 inappData section of the Electron docs](https://electron.atom.io/docs/api/app/#appgetpathname)).

The names in theactive-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. Seemobster-commit.sh for a working example. After committing with this script, yourgit log will look something like:

$ git logcommit 39d59e7e4c9acb021988b3040f9b7ace5f539b78Author: James Kirk, Leonard McCoy, Spock<example@example.com>Date:   Fri Mar 3 21:00:25 2017 -0500    Set phasers to stun.

There is aknown Electron bug for transparency in Windows 10 (see also#49). If you have this issue on your machine, you can disable transparency with these steps:

• Create a file calledNO_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.
• Restart Mobster

Thanks @steverb1 for reporting the issue and testing workarounds!

• A big thanks to Eric Heikkila (ehei) for figuring out theautoUpdater (which I couldn't for the life of me get to work)!
• Thanks to Gedward Gonzalez (gedward) for steppingme through the Mac app signing and autoUpdater with his Apple dev expertise!
• Thanks for contributing some sweet quotes Nayan Hajratwala (nhajratw)

To clone and run this repository you'll needGit andNode.js (which comes withnpm) installed on your computer. From your command line:

# Clone this repositorygit clone https://github.com/dillonkearns/mobster# Go into the repositorycd mobster# Install dependenciesnpm install# Run the appnpm start