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Neutron Drive - A code editor for Google Drive and Chrome

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Post by cyberpanther » Sat, Aug 25, 2012, 3:07 PM UTC

Neutron Drive - A code editor for Google Drive and Chrome
neutron-drive.appspot.com

Re: Neutron Drive - A code editor for Google Drive and Chrome

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Post by manaskarekar » Sat, Aug 25, 2012, 4:12 PM UTC

If I understand correctly, this naturally handles concurrent multiple users the way a normal Google document would?

Looks very cool!

Re: Neutron Drive - A code editor for Google Drive and Chrome

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Post by PizzaPanther » Sat, Aug 25, 2012, 4:19 PM UTC

manaskarekar wrote: post #2

If I understand correctly, this naturally handles concurrent multiple users the way a normal Google document would? Looks very cool!

Waiting for the Google to release their collaboration API to allow real time collaboration. But yes right now you can share a file just like you would as a Google Document.

Re: Neutron Drive - A code editor for Google Drive and Chrome

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Post by laughinghan » Sat, Aug 25, 2012, 4:23 PM UTC

PizzaPanther wrote: post #3

manaskarekar wrote: post #2

If I understand correctly, this naturally handles concurrent multiple users the way a normal Google document would? Looks very cool!

Waiting for the Google to release their collaboration API to allow real time collaboration. But yes right now you can share a file just like you would as a Google Document.

By "concurrent multiple users the way a normal Google document would", I think manaskarekar meant real-time collaboration, so that's a no.

Re: Neutron Drive - A code editor for Google Drive and Chrome

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Post by agravier » Sat, Aug 25, 2012, 5:11 PM UTC

It might be a nice app but it requires permission to perform R/W operations when I'm not using the application. Why do you need those permissions?

Re: Neutron Drive - A code editor for Google Drive and Chrome

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Post by cyberpanther » Sat, Aug 25, 2012, 5:13 PM UTC

agravier wrote: post #5

It might be a nice app but it requires permission to perform R/W operations when I'm not using the application. Why do you need those permissions?

The app doesn't do this, but in order to list all files on your drive I had to request full permissions.

Re: Neutron Drive - A code editor for Google Drive and Chrome

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Post by dbaupp » Sat, Aug 25, 2012, 6:14 PM UTC

cyberpanther wrote: post #6

agravier wrote: post #5

It might be a nice app but it requires permission to perform R/W operations when I'm not using the application. Why do you need those permissions?

The app doesn't do this, but in order to list all files on your drive I had to request full permissions.

It might be nice to have this explanation visible on the page too (I was also a little disconcerted by it request so many permissions).

Re: Neutron Drive - A code editor for Google Drive and Chrome

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Post by d23 » Sat, Aug 25, 2012, 6:56 PM UTC

Does anyone have examples of good use cases for this? I personally can't imagine why it would be more useful than my full IDE, though I'm eager to hear how others might use it.

Re: Neutron Drive - A code editor for Google Drive and Chrome

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Post by jamesmeador » Sat, Aug 25, 2012, 6:58 PM UTC

You can leverage App Engine's Channel API for some minimal collaboration techniques.

Re: Neutron Drive - A code editor for Google Drive and Chrome

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Post by cyberpanther » Sat, Aug 25, 2012, 7:14 PM UTC

d23 wrote: post #8

Does anyone have examples of good use cases for this? I personally can't imagine why it would be more useful than my full IDE, though I'm eager to hear how others might use it.

Agreed this might not replace your full IDE, but it could maybe used as a compliment to your normal development for a quick update on the go, or maybe you need to review some code when your not at your desk. Also once Google releases the docs collaboration API, you'll be able to do pair programming.