collaboration

Best way to read/edit/add to the googlecode wiki offline.

I finally after too much of pondering started my project on googlecode. One of the best features I liked about googlecode was the revision control for wiki, where I can add/edit the wiki pages locally offline and then commit/push later. I have pulled the wiki to my local repository, is there any good googlecode-wiki-toolbar-attached ed...

Are there any alternatives to Rational Team Concert at the moment?

Hi, we are a team of about 100 developers working in an iterative development style. We are looking for a solution that will allow us to aggregate all development artifacts in one collaborative environment. Rationals Team Concert is bringing a lot of what we are looking for issue tracking combined with project management and soure code...

What's the best FREE collaborative platform for 2/3 programmers?

Hello, first of all I searched for similar question, there are many, but does't fit my requirements or are outdated (for example Assembla seems to not be free anymore) We are two developers that would like to work on some common small projects during our free time. Our mainly need is to have a SVN repository that allows possibly to ha...

Trac vs. Redmine vs. JIRA vs. FogBugz for one-man shop?

Background I am a one-man freelancer looking for a project management software that can provide the following requirements. I have used Trac for about a year now. Tried Redmine and FogBugz on Demand for a couple of weeks. Never tried JIRA before. Basically, I'm looking for a piece of software that: Facilitates developer-client commun...

Looking for a free alternative to ProjectPlace

Does anyone know of a good free alternative to Project Place? Thanks in advance ...

Recommendations for implementing aspects of social networking in SharePoint

We're looking to build a collaborative site for a targeted set of users (~100) based on SharePoint Services and we want to integrate social networking features such as tagging, activity streams and user profiles to encourage them to participate. This is a proof of concept and if it proves to be popular then we might consider using the t...

Collaborating with someone using older version of Visual Studio

Does anyone have experience collaborating with someone using a different version of Visual Studio? If I upgrade to VS 2008 or 2010, how hard will it be to work with someone using VS 2005? I realize that I'll have to target .NET 2.0 or whatever in the projects we will share, but I'm more interested in how to deal with project/solution f...

Where can I find the old "Developer Collaboration" plugin?

Once upon a time there is netbeans plugin called "Developer Collaboration" which allows you make remote pair programming. Now, in Netbeans 6.7, there is no more this "Developer Collaboration" but there something called "Kenai support". Unfortunately Kenai does not seems to have a real time editor and it seems to be usable only for open...

To SharePoint Or Not (as a foundation for application development)(vs ASP.NET)

I have a POV that you should only use SharePoint for application development under these conditions. 1) The application uses documents and these documents need some sort of functionality that SharePoint does extremely well (searching/indexing, sync with Outlook, etc...) If all you want is a document bucket and a list then ASP.NET or ASP...

Product backlog management using Excel (or Excel's XML Spreadsheet 2003 feature with SVN merging)

We have Product Backlog in an Excel Spreadsheet that we also commit to SVN, so everyone can open use it and update to latest version. The problem we have is: How do you enable Excel spreadsheet to be simultaneously used by many people and not override each other's data. Some kind of merging data? Is it at all possible? We would like to...

How to set Subversion properties with git-svn

Is there a way to set subversion properties on a git repository that was created by git-svn? In my case, I want to edit the version of svn:external, svn:ignore and svn:executable. However, the only way to do so seems to involve a check-out with the subversion client. Is there a way to edit svn properties without having to check out the...

Code snippet library for a team

I would like a general purpose code snippets library, that I could use to store bits of code for any language, organized in folders. When any developer on the network adds a snippet, it should get transferred to others. How can I do this simply? Any app that could be used for sharing libraries of text should be okay too. ...

Collaborating with a designer on the other side of the world

Hi Guys, I am trying to collaborate with a graphic designer sitting on the other side of the world. The only communication medium we have is a phone line. Every time she makes even a minute change to an element on a page, she has to take a screenshot, save it and mail it - all manually till now. As you can guess, this gets downright ir...

Building A Team

I'm trying to put a small team (about 5 members to start) together here in Honolulu to work on some hobby-projects members and myself may have, and am having trouble finding other members who are interested. Basically am just looking for people with skills in JavaScript, JQuery, AJAX, PHP, MYSQL, and anything else in that realm. I've pos...

How to contribute improvements to packages hosted on Cheeseshop ( pypi ) ?

I've been using zc.buildout more and more and I'm encountering problems with some recipes that I have solutions to. These packages generally fall into several categories: Package with no obvious links to a project site Package with links to free hosted service like github or google code Setup #2 is better then #1, but not much bett...

What is the best tool for a team of programmers to collaborate on a project?

Me and some friends are starting a programming group as a hobby and we're looking for a way to easily collaborate. Meaning, someone start working on the file, everyone on the team can see that he worked on the file, etc. We need something that's fast, free and not necesarilly full of features, we are doing this as a hobby and not as a ...

What tool can I use to allow multiple teams to share files?

I need to work with several teams and need to be able to share requirements and design documents. Most people won't be too technical, so I want to avoid source code tools. The main requirements are: Easy sharing via links. I don't want people to have to install multple tools just to see a file or learn anything about svn checkout. P...

Forum like collaboration environment for small development team

Hello, We have a team of 3 Windows developers and we are currently discussing technical features on IM or email. Issues are discussed and then there is usually a final decision. We want to have a forum-like environment (e.g. phpBB or other more developer centered solutions), where we can discuss issues in a structured way. Here is what...

What are the boundaries or scope definitions of HTML5 development?

From reading the mailing lists and looking at the specification I cannot tell what the limits of HTML5 are as a software or programmatic technology. I have seen where they have attempted to standardize video and audio formats in HTML5 and it seems they may be writing the definitions for XHTML5 into the HTML5 specification. It also appe...

What is a good (coding) platform to use for telephone coding interview?

We are going to interview some candidates over the phone and we need the candidate to write code (pseudo code). Obviously, asking the candidate to read the code out loud to us over the phone isn't ideal. I wonder if there is any good platform to do this? I know Facebook uses a simple program they wrote by themselves, and Google uses G...