Will someone give Robert X. Cringely a cigar… October 18, 2006
Posted by James Webster in : tech, google , add a comment…for predicting (or perhaps inspiring?) the datacenter-in-a-box (well, actually it is a shipping container). Ok, he did say it would be Google that would develop it rather than Sun but its prescient nonetheless.
Anyone care to take bets on Sun being the next company acquired by Google?
(Via Too-biased)
Jabber integration in IntelliJ October 12, 2006
Posted by James Webster in : development, xmpp , add a commentOne of the most interesting additions to the recent IntelliJ 6.0 release is IDEtalk, a collaboration feature built upon Jabber/XMPP to enable chat and limited application sharing directly within the IDE; here’s the feature list (directly from JetBrain’s list):
- Instant Messaging client inside the IDE allowing to perform the following actions:
- Exchange messages right inside the IDE
- View users’ status
- User groups management
- Navigate and search through message history
- Code-related communications with quick access to the referenced code:
- Send “code pointer” — a reference to a particular point in the file with one-click navigation
- Send stacktrace with direct links to underlying source code
- Show difference between project files opened by two team members
- View a list of files opened in IntelliJ IDEA by any of the contacts
- Manage others’ access to the IDE project files
Having not tried it out just yet (but soon, I promise!) it is unclear to me whether it supports distributed editing of files in the way that SubEthaEdit, Google Docs & Spreadsheets (nee Writely) or Writeboard do. But it would be a great feature to support, especially for distributed teams.
Even more exciting is IntelliJoin, a recently announced collaboration between JetBrains and Jive Software, the developers of the Java XMPP server Wildfire (via Jive Talks). Essentially JetBrains and Jive Software are hosting an instance of Wildfire for use by developers using IntelliJ. You can use any other XMPP server of course (including the Google Talk servers I expect) but I wonder if IntelliJoin will provide more developer-focused features down the track. I’d love to see them support voice chat and deeper IntelliJ project/application sharing to the point where I can effectively pair-program with someone geographically separated from myself.
Other companies are also putting Google Talk/Jabber through its paces, such as JPMorgan and its AlgoAlert algorithmic trading alert tool.