We develop in the clouds (WPF, ASP.NET, PHP)

A lot of things are being said about cloud computing . About how conveniently everything is stored and processed somewhere in the clouds . We have Google Docs for creating documentation, there will soon be Microsoft Office Web 2010 Apps (in fact, and now you can use Excel and PowerPoint on live.com), also we can already store documents in the clouds, keep contacts, calendars, well in general, everything that you can want (or almost all?). And what's more, CodeRun - Web IDE recently caught my eye.

Imagine a situation - you are a Web developer (I wanted to write an ordinary one first, but are developers really ordinary?), Your website is provided not only with beautiful pages, but also with complex logic that you can't think of all of them - and then quite by chance parents (girlfriend, grandmother) it dawns on you. Of course, I would like to try this second, but, unfortunately, there is a computer, but there is no IDE and your project is at hand. But if you keep everything on CodeRun - work where you want and how much you want (even with your grandmother). In general, it is strange that I simply could not find any analogues. I remember the wiki-os project, which I already wrote about earlier - but it was more like a parody: it didn’t smell like something serious (they are writing that something new is there - but I didn’t see anything).

CodeRun is a more (much) serious project. Moreover, there are already paid services. As far as I understand, for the price you can get as hosting your project (sources) in the clouds, so immediately and hosting for your application (deployment). It’s cheap or not - I find it hard to judge, since I’m not very experienced at that. Prices can be found here .

You can develop both in their CodeRun Web IDE and in Visual Studio using their plug-in to deploy changes, etc ... Everything works on Windows Server 2003. Projects can be Silverlight 3, WPF (XBAP), ASP.NET, PHP 5 Databases can be used by both MS SQL 2005 and Amazon SimpleDB. C # IDE is more user friendly than php, javascript, html - there is IntelliSense and even the possibility of debugging on the server. Does it work? It’s still difficult to use in reality, then some unpleasant and annoying trifles come up here. And the speed of development of course falls at times. I tried to create an ASP.NET application right away a lot of problems, Chrome stopped calling the application windows after 3 starts (Debug didn’t work), tried to use watch in Debug - and I couldn’t think that when you open an object, you need to wait for its properties to be loaded (you don’t have enough patience and you begin to open and close, I anticipate a bug). In general, the idea, of course, is 5, and the implementation is 3+.
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I forget about the described scenario so far, and invent another one. We are a freelancer - we write small projects, such as websites, store source codes on CodeRun, and provide customers with hosting of written applications. We are going on vacation - they call us and ask to quickly repair or add something - agree on a price, take a beer, go to the nearest bar - add a couple of lines of code (not more in WebIDE, otherwise there is not enough patience), remove money from the card and extend the vacation for another day :). Isn't it great?