Now, I’m not much of a programmer myself but to those who are… have you heard of Gobby?
I recently discovered this little gem and I must say, it’s pretty awesome.
From Gobby’s website:
Gobby is a free collaborative editor supporting multiple documents in one session and a multi-user chat. It runs on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and other Unix-like platforms.
You can check the site out here
If you want to run your own Gobby server, there’s no easier way of doing via this tutorial. I’m all about simplicity, you’ll often find me posting simple tutorials or scrips to automate what are often tedious annoying tasks… I’m just like that.
I was playing around with the Gobby configuration files and stumbled across a pretty neat idea (If you’re not a web-dev/PHP/HTML programmer, this might not be much help):
Gobby saves all your files locally on your server. Now in my case, I was running Gobby on one of my VPS’s which was also running Apache (web-server). It’d be a good idea to change your default file directory to your www folder for Apache. That way, you can instantly test your code on an online environment. If you look at it this way, the collaboration capabilities are really just a bonus. So for those web-devs/programmers out there, it might be a good idea to experiment with this concept.
