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Perhaps even more importantly, Cloud9 is based on the ACE code editor ( http://ace.ajax.org/ ) which, by itself, is a really phenomenal piece of work. When you look under the hood it's way more complex than you might imagine.
Didn't see a quick way to point this out through their site, so I'll point it out here on the off-chance one of the creators sees this thread: Typo on the /pricing page: "This is were your files are stored, ..." The product itself looks great though, I'm looking forward to hearing about any HN-ers experiences with it.
He he--fixed! Thanks.
Didn't see a quick way to point this out through their site, so I'll point it out here on the off-chance one of the creators sees this thread: Typo on the /pricing page: "This is were your files are stored, ..." The product itself looks great though, I'm looking forward to hearing about any HN-ers experiences with it.
Thanks! Will fix this shortly.
It works now!
Any reason there's no Windows app? The real killer for me last time I tried it was not being able to edit local files. I have so many projects downloaded and set up that having to move them to the cloud just to make a quick edit is not worth it. Is this something the local app fixes?
Oh cloud9 I really like this idea, lets see if it's improved since last time I looked -> click
I can sign in via Bitbucket cool I'll do that.
Okay that was dumb of me, my Bitbucket repositories are all private so I can't use cloud9 for this. I'll import my github projects instead.
Dang, Github is already registered to another account and I can't change it.
No problem, I'll de-active Bitbucket and delete this account, then sign in with the old account I created.
Doh, I can't remember my password, I'll reset it. Weird a new password is sent back to me in plain text? That doesn't fill me with confidence.
I'm in, the dashboard says I've only got one project in my Github repository, that's odd? Never mind, one project will do for testing.
Open project, click index.php, hmmm no syntax highlighting.
Never mind I'll just click on view then syntax and choose PHP. Nope that didn't work, not sure why, okay maybe it's because it's a PHP project and this is a Javascript IDE. I'll have a little play around and see what else is new.
Zend mode that seems interesting I'll click that. Ahh okay, that looks pretty. Right, now where have all my options gone, bugger. How do I exit out of zend mode? I can't remember the keyboard short cut and there's no hint. Okay never mind I'll just exit the IDE and login again.
Right back to the dashboard. Oh sweet, looks like my other Github projects have appeared. I'll try a Javascript based project.
Okay so start editing -> click on Javascript file -> no syntax highlighting -> click syntax button -> choose javascript, no syntax highlighting sigh... Maybe code completion will work, at least that's fun to try. I type "this.". No code completion, right well that's enough play time quit.
I don't doubt that all this stuff works, but for me in the 5 / 10 minutes I played around with this I've not managed to get the IDE to function how I expect it to. And it's the same thing every time. I really hope this post is taken positively as constructive feedback because I can see great potential for the product. I'd love some kind of automatic ajaxy getting started tour once I've logged in.
Tried installing this a week or two ago but ended up with an issue with libxml. Took me an age to sort it (not got much experience with how npm works). Finally got it sorted but then couldn't figure out a way to add authentication, so gave up. Would be good if they came up with an easier installation, especially as it looks so promising.
I really really want this product to work. I can see the potential/benefit in it. But every time I try it I'm left disappointed. I know it's probably me doing something stupid, but here goes my experience this time. Oh cloud9 I really like this idea, lets see if it's improved since last time I looked -> click I can sign in via Bitbucket cool I'll do that. Okay that was dumb of me, my Bitbucket repositories are all pr…
$ git commit -m "Small fixes."
error: pathspec 'fixes.' did not match any file(s) known to git.