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Re: EtherPad Open Source Release

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Post by mtrichardson »

flog wrote: post #30
staunch wrote: post #14

Thanks to The Google & The Etherpads! I fully expect to see 30 different sites offering this now, and HN to be full of links to them tomorrow.

For those of us who have been working on side-project competitors for a few months this is a worrying prediction, and quite probably correct. Can HN name any niches that they feel should be filled with a similar product?

Focus on collaborative editing for things like school reports, round robin novels, etc. Support TeX eventually, images sooner. Then hook it up to print on demand and allow people to sell beautifully bound copies of their stories/theses/whatever right from the site.

Re: EtherPad Open Source Release

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Post by rajasaur »

mattiss wrote: post #60

I just took a quick look around, but is all of the server-side code down in JS as well?

I took a quick look too and it looks like its javascript calling over to Java using Liveconnect (http://www.mozilla.org/rhino/scriptjava.html). The infrastructure folder contains support for Rhino.

Re: EtherPad Open Source Release

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Post by alnayyir »

majke wrote: post #42
Raphael wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Make it more technical. Monospace, syntax highlighting, version control, TeX, markdown. Would also make an interesting mash-up with Bespin.

http://cometdemo.lshift.net:8080/ ?

Crashed in 10 seconds.

I'm like a walking bug plague.

Re: EtherPad Open Source Release

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Post by kalid »

stephen wrote: post #46
flog wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For those of us who have been working on side-project competitors for a few months this is a worrying prediction, and quite probably correct. Can HN name any niches that they feel should be filled with a similar product?

I'd like a real-time-updating version of instacalc. Great tool for communicating about calculations, but it sucks having to send the URL back and forth all the time.

Thinking about it now ;).

Re: EtherPad Open Source Release

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Post by alnayyir »

defen wrote: post #28

Anyone feel like digging into the code and doing a writeup about the "secret sauce" - how they managed to make the real time stuff so responsive?

non-blocking Event I/O, server-side + client-side JS.

Cf. node.js for infrastructural style (but with Scala in Etherpad's case)

Re: EtherPad Open Source Release

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Post by dreeves »

ique wrote: post #13

I have my last final today. This comes as a perfect school-is-over-and-i-can-start-hacking-again gift! I'm hoping to be able to integrate LaTeX export into this so I can collaborate on LaTeX reports without having to download and build manually.

I hacked up something for LaTeX collaboration: http://etherpad.com/latexmk

Re: EtherPad Open Source Release

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Post by ique »

dreeves wrote: post #67
ique wrote: post #13

I have my last final today. This comes as a perfect school-is-over-and-i-can-start-hacking-again gift! I'm hoping to be able to integrate LaTeX export into this so I can collaborate on LaTeX reports without having to download and build manually.

I hacked up something for LaTeX collaboration: http://etherpad.com/latexmk

That's pretty cool! But only useful for the few of my friends that would know how to run a perl script (and have LaTeX installed) unfortunately LaTeX is a rarity at Swedish schools and I need to make it super simple and install-free to make some of my classmates use it.

Re: EtherPad Open Source Release

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Post by dreeves »

ique wrote: post #68
dreeves wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hacked up something for LaTeX collaboration: http://etherpad.com/latexmk

That's pretty cool! But only useful for the few of my friends that would know how to run a perl script (and have LaTeX installed) unfortunately LaTeX is a rarity at Swedish schools and I need to make it super simple and install-free to make some of my classmates use it.

Thanks! You could use that script yourself to keep a copy of the pdf live on the web. Then your collaborators could edit the LaTeX on etherpad and keep re-fetching example.com/foo.pdf for the pdf of what they're editing. If they're not hardcore LaTeX people then maybe that will suffice for them.

Re: EtherPad Open Source Release

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Post by d_c »

simonw wrote: post #23

$ sh bin/rebuildjar.sh using JAR jar... usage: cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-fi | -n] [-apvX] source_file target_file cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-fi | -n] [-apvX] source_file ... target_directory including etherpad JARs... using cached JAR-etherpad... updating... java.io.FileNotFoundException: ../../build/appjet.jar (No such file or directory) at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native Method) at java.io.FileInputStream. (FileIn…

I'm having the exact same problem on OS X 10.6
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