Does anyone have experience with embedding messaging or mailing programs into VS? I'm interested in things like Skype or Instant Messenger being embedded as tool windows. If you use (or have used) something like this, how has it affected your productivity? ...
I'm looking for a collaborative editor that doesn't suck :) And that at least supports Ruby syntax highlighting. Also, a developer and I will be using this to program, so Google Docs won't work. In all reality, I just need a collaborative editor that has the concept of a project. Where both users see the folder structure of a project an...
Pretend you're hitting me up for some javascript help on IM. How can you make it as easy as possible for me to help you get your code working? I run into this all the time. I'm on instant messenger and someone is asking me a question (or maybe it's me that's asking them) and we have lots of back-and-forth communication trying to work on...
I mean not on open source, but software to build and sell. They don't have to be programmers, they can be also people who have ideas or with a marketing background. Is there any good internet platform for this? ...
There is a colleague who seriously knows his stuff, he is one of the brightest I've ever worked with, but he: works in his own little area of his home directory rather than in the common CVS repository doesn't document his code doesn't comment his code, e.g. 3,500 SLOC of C with no comments and no blank lines to break things up often o...
We need to involve our customer development partners in our development process. We're more or less following Agile methodologies. Some customer partners are remote, others closer. We need to minimize travel costs. Our customers are in health care and tend to be busy, expensive, and hard to schedule. What practices and technologies hav...
My default setup is to put the tex source in a subversion repository and insert notes to each other as comments in the source when making changes to other people's content. It all feels pretty sub-optimal, especially when there are subversion conflicts where all it tells you is "these two versions of this huge paragraph are in conflict....
When editing non-WYSIWYG (LaTeX, HTML, etc) prose you probably want to have newlines at the ends of your sentences. This has several advantages: Easier to rearrange sentences. Easier to comment out sentences. Easier to spot run-on / overly long sentences. Easier to comment on sentences. For example: % The following isn't strictly ...
I am looking for a web based text editor that supports collaboration with 2 or more people. I am hoping to work on a fairly 'small' project with a couple other people from afar and would really like for us to be able to work on the same file at the same time and see the changes each other make in 'real time'. Language built on is not m...
How to create a collaborative question answer management system like this one? I want to make one for my school where students can ask questions and find answers. I tried forums, pligg e.t.c. but they didn't appeal much. I want something exactly like stackoverflow. ...
I've been working with SVN for a couple of years and recently been working on some projects involving Trac. It might seem odd for most of you but I come from design oriented background where those tools are not so often used. For the moment we mostly use Basecamp to keep track of client requirements, documents etc. And on the other han...
We use SVN at work (ie. this is not an open-source project) and have an off-shore team working in our code. I'd love to be able to communicate better with them and the commenting system provided by GitHub would be perfect. With GitHub's system I can start a discussion on any line of code in a commit. So, my question: does anyone know ...
I am a somewhat green developer; some work experience, last year of school. As most of you, I am constantly working on an assortment of personal projects. Since my mind often has a somewhat drifting characteristic; I am not always able to keep the projects in check. After some time they all exhibit the moral fiber of Vikings, harlots and...
I haven't seen a continuous version control system - one that would save changes in your code as you developed them, rather than waiting for an official check in. The changes would be saved as 'not checked in' of course, but they would be saved away for backup, and viewing by others before you actually did the official check in. I have...
I'm planning a collaboration platform that will be used by academics from twenty different countries collaborating within the same field of research. Ideally I'd like to base my work on an existing open-source platform that can be extended to meet all the requirements. The final platform has the following requirements: Integrated mess...
Do you ever face the problem that there are a bunch of programmers in your organization that you met at the coffee machine one day, but you have no idea what the heck they're up to? Are you ever faced with a problem you're pretty certain someone in your company has solved before, but you don't know who, and how to find out? These are ...
There are a lot of good solutions for audio and video conferencing, task, calender and document management. We got specs, uml diagrams, code generators, etc. But still companies pour tons of cash so that people can be physically there even in the times of recession and i wonder why? ...
I am working in a small team on some projects in my spare time. We are having the problem that we seem to go in circles and are not able to get our products developed - however this is not a problem during my day job. The lack of face-to-face communication seems to have a real impact on productivity. Any examples of software or methodol...
I am looking for a tool to help me design and describe projects such as website, which I need to develop with other people over the internet. Here is a description of a typical workflow for a small website project which I would like some tool support for. The web site consist of 5 pages, so first I make a description of the features ...
I've been making small scale projects for a while now. I haven't started a large project, yet, because I haven't come across anything which I needed and wasn't already accomplished by some other FOSS. Until now. I want to make a program which will allow users to interactively learn secondary languages (I'm kind of want to make it as cl...