Floobits: convenient remote programming pair

Making remote pair programming convenient is not an easy task, but Floobits can succeed .

Floobits allows you to use your favorite editor to collaborate on real-time code — only Sublime Text, Vim and Emacs are now supported; In addition, there is also a web-based code editor, traditional for such services, that runs directly in the browser.

Since it was difficult to manage only with the editor, over time it turned out that pair development is not only spreading the code, but also “sharing” the terminals ( Flootty was developed for this), but also real-time updating the code on the test server (for this developed a simple diff-shipper ). In addition, support for Hangouts for voice chat and video sharing has been added to the web editor.

You can try it for free , after registration you will need to create a public workspace with files (you can create up to 5 pieces for free, private ones are only available for a fee ; you will need to install plug-ins to work with your text editor, you can also create workspaces with them). The web editor can be linked to the repository in Git, Mercurial and Subversion. More details on the site itself .
')
Read about the reasons that prompted the author to create a service here . In short, the already existing web editors Collabedit , Stype and Cloud9 seemed inconvenient compared to the usual TextMate.

floobits.com
Discussion on ycombinator.com