EtherPad. Outstanding implementation of an online real-time collaborative text editor—basically SubEthaEdit in your browser. I can see myself using this a lot.
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EtherPad. Outstanding implementation of an online real-time collaborative text editor—basically SubEthaEdit in your browser. I can see myself using this a lot.
Oh, man, I didn't know you didn't know about this. :-)
I'm a big fan. I tried to get per-session links into the PyCon schedules for last year, but I was too late to get it in.
The collaboration around URLs you just make up is awesome.
I was a bit concerned about how chatty it is-- IIRC, 1 keypress is about 10 bytes on the wire, separate request per keystroke-- which is fine normally, but might melt a conference network.
Jeremy Dunck - 24th July 2009 06:15 - #
I had a quick look at it a few months ago when Paul Graham published an essay on it, but it looked like more of a tech demo at the time. Checked it out yesterday and it had become a very nicely polished product. Never seen anyone I know use it in person, surprisingly.
"Why doesn't Google Docs update every half second like Etherpad does? Because it's really, really hard. We're fairly experienced programmers, and to make this work we had to solve problems that, as far as we know, no one had solved before."
'really, really hard'. bah.
martin - 24th July 2009 22:02 - #
I've used Etherpad to conduct remote developer interviews. It's a great way to have someone write code when you are talking to them on the phone.
Mitch Matuson - 25th July 2009 19:45 - #