Imagine collaborating in authoring an article in MODx; or getting troubleshooting help without giving out passwords and whatnots.
<button onclick="TogetherJS(this); return false;">Start TogetherJS</button>
<script src="https://togetherjs.com/togetherjs-min.js"></script>
//see https://togetherjs.com/docs/#technology-overview
So, for educational purposes I have been rampaging through the entire internet looking for collaborating tools.
I found Etherpad (works with Node.Js), since acquired by Google (check out the new Etherpad-lite).
Etherpad has now a billion variations,
Piratepad,
MeetingWords etc... then I saw
MobWriter.
There is even a
TinyMCE plugin for
Etherpad, sweet majorem!
Stypi and
Collabedit also exist.
I was about to go with one of these until I realized that Google, the dictator god of your life, has a powerful collaboration tool in its Google Doc- really real time + comments.
Ooh don't forget
Neutron Drive, which works like magic with your Google Doc. It is almost like
Cloud9.
All these listed above have some very good version control and revision system going on.
Then...
...then, I remembered that
JSFiddle has a nifty fantastical tool for sharing; only to realize this tool is maintained by Mozilla Labs.
With only two stinking lines of sack-filled code, out of the box, voila! I can type stuff, chat (with voice), and point out where you might have diligently screwed your MODx snippet, or perhaps point out that you have once again forgotten to close the backticks.
Then good sirs and ladies, whatcha think?
[ed. note: donshakespeare last edited this post 12 years, 6 months ago.]
