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in-browswer syntax coloring editor (collaborative)

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  • Submitted by: FancyPants
  • Created: Jul 13, 2006, 10:19 am
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A collaborative editing environment (ajax-based) that is simply a large text field with syntax highlighting rules (configurable). This is to allow several people to work on the same source file at once. The interface would be tabbed so you could work on several files at once. There would be a chat interface, as well, so that you can discuss changes (possibly flash with audio and video support). Just a simple, clean tool for helping geographically-seperated developers work more closely and easily without having to spend buku dollars on professional collaboration suites. It would be nice to throw in basic project management (just a collection of files and version tracking for each of those files in a project. Not timelining or anything like that).

I thought of this idea when I was...

Working with friends across the country on part-time projects like this.. :)


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Kane
Kane Posted: July 18, 2006, 7:51 pm

I can see this working great for average projects in certain languages! I'm thinking Perl or a similiar language style at the moment. It wouldn't be diffiicult these days to add voice collaboration to it as well.

I mean I can't tell you how often I have been in the same boat as "FancyPants." Working with others remotely (usually sharing the desktop one way or the other) and talking on speaker phone. The one remote desktopping into the other's computer would usually be the better programmer and would have other parts of the project he was working on in another window. When the 2nd programmer wanted something, he would speak up, and the better one would respond. There would be several minutes sometimes of no speaking, but at least everyone on the phone had the oppurtunity to say "hey, how do I..." just as if we were all in the same room together.

Since I brought that bit up, how about taking the idea and twisting it a tad bit? I can imagine an ajax app, as well, that has open live windows of programming text editing that each user in your group" are working on. Each of the users can click on the thumbnail type view and pull it up a little bigger and see what someone else is working on and scroll up and down thru their code (without it scrolling on the working user's screen of course.)

Tag that in there with live (voice) chat and you've got a real cool collaborative scheme going on!

 

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