Yehuda Katz and Tilde.io

http://blog.nitrous.io/2013/08/05/nitrous-stories-i-yehuda-katz-tilde-nitrousio.html

by jamesjyu • 13 years ago

46 23 13 years ago

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I'm about to try this out, actually. Anyone else tried nitrous?

cpursley4• 13 years ago

Yeah, nitrous is awesome - been using it for several months (with ember, rails & sinatra). I'm actually in it now. This is the future, for sure. Having a pre-configured box is a dream. I was able to create a new nitrous box (ubuntu), clone an app and have it running in three minutes. Took me all day to configure my Mac for rails...

Shameless plug: https://www.nitrous.io/join/BiSdgSxLjIk

ulisesrmzroche5• 13 years ago

just signed in, going to play with it around a little. Thanks for the invite!

j4pe• 13 years ago

This is a really well-constructed piece of marketing. Yes please, I do want to code like Yehuda Katz! Sure, I'll connect my entire web presence to your service to earn credit!

But is nobody else concerned about needing an internet connection to write code? It looks possible to sync a local repo with their boxes when connected, dropbox-style. But the use case they appear to be focusing on is their in-browser collaborative IDE, which is all kinds of problematic for me in cases like using my own bash settings, coding on airplanes, simulating my production environment, coding on life rafts on approach to a refugee flotilla in the Pacific ocean, and just plain hating latency.

Looks like a perfect for coding on a Chromebook or similarly handicapped machine. For the time being, though, I like my dev environments like I like my video games - offline.

cpursley4• 13 years ago

For those few precious moments that I'm not coding, I shouldn't be coding anyways. I've been using nitrous on a 4G Virgin mobile hotspot while I travel. It's a bit slower, but fine. Still easier than keeping my machine configured and the IDE is quite good.

Carlercheee• 13 years ago

When Yehuda needs money he came online to tell us some funny story.

I think he isn't happy for 50K DOLLARS got on kickstarter (1) for doing "nothing". He is a "writer" and "performance guy" but after merging his "thing" merb into rails 3 he quit leaving rails with a lot of issues and poor performances (compared to rails 2.0) and Merb... dead, as 99% of his "open source". He started bundler (badly) and leaving it in a bad shape to be fixed by someone else, same for thor and moneta ...

Now, late evening, his crew is giving him some points and comments to this crapware in order to get some visibility.

Give him your money!

He use the "opensource" only to increase his income, nothing else.

[1] http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1397300529/railsapp

cpursley4• 13 years ago

Let me guess, an angular guy?

marknutter• 13 years ago

This kind of comment makes me cringe. Did you really have nothing positive to say?

kmf• 13 years ago

Yikes. This is pretty inaccurate.

Rails.app (now Tokaido) is on Github [1] and is coming along quite nicely. Our designer used a build of it to get one of our Rails apps up and running quite smoothly last week. It was super slick and as far as I can tell, there's no indication of it being at alpha or beta stage. It already works great.

Not to mention that Tilde has been working on Ember.js and developing Skylight.io as well. They're keeping busy and producing A TON.

Usually I wouldn't respond to this kind of thing but I think it's a pretty tough sell to anyone that Yehuda isn't working his ass off with the rest of Tilde.

[1] https://github.com/tokaido/tokaidoapp

dmix• 13 years ago

As an outsider (no opinion on OP/wycats), I'm curious why the Rails.app is being developed under the name "Tokaido"? I remember the kickstarter campaign coming up on HN/twitter a while back with the Rails.app branding and was curious why I never heard about it after. Even the github repo readme doesn't mention rails?

jolohaga• 13 years ago

Wave coming.

pamelafox• 13 years ago

I used a friend's Chrome Pixel exclusively for the last week, as I was in between work laptops. I wanted to make some changes to an old App Engine app, and instead of figuring out how to dual boot it and all that, I decided to try Nitrous. I was able to clone the repo, get my build tools running with Node and Ruby (handlebars, compass), run a local App Engine server and preview it, deploy the changes to App Engine, and push the changes back to the repo.

The neat thing about using Nitrous is that I could theoretically work on that app from any machine now, and not have to set up a bunch of tools that I don't use otherwise.

So, I might keep trying to use it for my little side apps, the ones that I work on once a year and don't necessarily have an environment set up for.

They were also super helpful on Twitter, on a Sunday.

kmlymi• 13 years ago

It would help me out if anyone wanting to try this out signed up with https://www.nitrous.io/join/X01nmhYHezs

Thanks!

Yehuda Katz and Tilde.io

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