collaboration

Collaborate with web designers in ASP.NET project (with SVN)

What would be a good way to collaborate with web designers (proficient in CSS and HTML) in an ASP.NET project, while at the same keeping everything in sync using SVN? We don't want the compiled DLLs (i.e the "bin" folder) in the source repository (not in the trunk anyway) We don't to require that the designers have Visual Studio or a w...

How does one set up collaborative work for a project?

I am looking for the environment or process that should be used to set up a collaborative project. It would seem that one must protect oneself from certain on-line elements (who simply are out to cause problems) and attempt to find through some sort of process the most appropriate collaborators. Obviously, I have never tried to set up ...

Ruby on Rails Question - Answer Website

Does anyone know of a good tutorial or application for asking and answering questions for Ruby on Rails, much like this site (although it probably will be for a very different purpose in the end)? ...

Collaborative RegEx Development

I'm looking for Collaborative RegEx website or software, where one can submit several cases of "match" and "shouldn't match" then other might refactor the regex. Like refactormycode.com but with a RegEx twist. And this way it's possible to see which code performs faster and is actually correct based on the given match tests. This can be...

When designing a software platform, what are the key elements that make up a successful pluggable architecture?

I've been really impressed by the growing number of software platforms that let outside developers contribute code through a pluggable architecture (plugins/extensions). I've been studying which platforms have the best plugin communities... Excellent Plugin Architectures with thriving plugin communities: WordPress (and WordPress Mult...

How can I host a Mercurial repository for several users myself?

There are a number of hosting services for git, Mercurial, etc. I need to host my own, because some of the data we want to keep there is of a sensitive nature, and we cannot move it off-site. I need to host a Mercurial repository on a server so that a number of people can access it to both pull changes and push their own work. There nee...

Netbeans 6.5.1 + Openfire 3.6.4 Collaboration ?

We are using the collab plugin in Netbeans. Unfortunately the "Service for the developer collaboration XMPP server share.java.net will be discontinued as of April 20, 2009. " http://wiki.netbeans.org/FaqShareJavaNet I managed to install OpenFire 3.6.4 on OpenSolaris 2008.11. Whatever I do I cant login from Netbeans collab plugin, but ...

creating an internal opensource type system

so I am looking to create an open source type environment to allow our international partners to view and contribute to our code. currently we use SVN for source control and fogbugz for defect tracking. This manages most of our requirements however. with Fogbugz enabling community discussions and wiki's WebSVN doesnt seem to run on I...

Is there any IDE or Source Control System inspired by Google Docs collaborative mode?

Google Docs (formely Writely) has implemented a collaborative mode where 2 users can edit the same document at the same time. This idea could be extended to programming through: A collaborative online IDE with Code Editor, Compiler/Linker, Source Control integrated Where each user can checkout lines of codes instead of files Where each...

How to respond to collaborators you disagree with

Strictly speaking, one other person and myself are collaborating on a website. Recently, she proposed a change to several images that are included on every page. I didn't personally think this was necessary to begin with, but she felt it was, so I reluctantly agreed to see what she could come up with. Just recently, she showed me what s...

Developer Collaboration Reality Check

Distributed Teams = Fact Collaboration Infrastructure = SVN/CVS/HG + Ticket/Req-System + Wiki + Forum + Mailing List + xyz This collaboration is more or less offline, the individual developers can work independent of time and location. But how you collaborate in real-time on a code level, eg. code review ? I asked recently for a speci...

Deploy Coordination Tool?

My company maintains a SaaS platform and we're approaching a pretty major release. Deploy night activities involve a large cross-functional team spanning several Development & QA groups, Operations, Professional Services, and Customer Support. We've always used a simple task-list and a chatroom to coordinate all the work to be done dur...

ASP.NET - collaboration between designer and developer

Our organization has dedicated designers who design the page and cut it up in Dreamweaver. That's worked well in the past with ASP and PHP sites. Now we're trying to make it work with .NET, but are struggling because of the structure of a project in ASP.NET. How does everybody collaborate with developers? The specific points I am loo...

Real-time collaborative editing

I work with another coder most of the time on projects and would love an application that lets us work on the same file and see the other person's edits in real-time. He uses OSX and I'm on Vista. I am wondering if there are any server-side applications that can do this, that I could put on my server, and would be accessible through a b...

Set Aptana to collaborate with team members on Dreamweaver?

I think I want to switch from Dreamweaver to the eclipse based IDE, Aptana. The only real issue stopping me is that I need to be able to collaborate with the other members on my team. Like being able to check-in/out files so we don't override each others work. The other members on my team want to stick with Dreamweaver. So, is there a wa...

Software/Platform to Share Specs

What are the software/ Wiki you use to write and share your specs about the developers, testers and management? Do you use Wiki system, and if so, what Wiki software you use? Or do you use Sharepoint to manage and version the specs? One problem with SharePoint 2003 as specs platform is that it's very hard to collaborate among different...

Is there a windows tool that is compatible with the OS X text editor SubEthaEdit for collaborative coding?

...question says it all! Looking at tools for collaborative editing for a distributed and having uses SEE in the past I would love to go down that road (but it has to be cross-platform).... ...

drupal file sharing

Hi, I am finding a drupal module to enable file sharing between users, somebody know someone??? ...

Content/Document/Project Management System - Which is right for my needs?

So I just started an internship with this nonprofit company and it's pretty cool. My first assignment was to find a type of program that would work well for the company and its users. I and some team members just finished summarizing down what I think is a good list for the needed functionality. Before I started working, I've never even ...

Designing a robust social/collaborative tagging system

How might I implement a system where everybody can add/remove tags to every item, but still protect it from spam/tag-vandalism? I'm thinking it would probably need to store the tags that each person's tags for an item, and then somehow coming up with an aggregate/"top" tags for the item. I think Slashdot has a tagging system like this--...