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Last week I wanted to brainstorm with a collegue, on a new piece of source code, but
we were not in the same physical location. So I did a quick google for some
form of collaborative realtime text editor. However, from the applications I found,
nothing quite fitted all of my needs.
small download
really simple to get up and running
works over our firewall
cross platform
free
So with all this in mind, I set about creating a tiny app that addressed my requirements.
I called it netpad, and it is a very basic text editor, that uses http to synchronise
between remote instances of itself. (Netpad is both an http client and http server)
It's still very pre-alpha, but I'd thought I'd share now, to get useful comments. I'm just working on the algorithms for conflict resolution at the moment. I think my main focus is towards the realtime edit protocol, rather than the editing vehicle.