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by SamyPesse • 13 years ago

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Edmond6• 13 years ago

competition here!(crudzilla.com)

SamyPesse2• 13 years ago

There are many competitors, our IDE will be released as an open-source project in the coming weeks so that you can use it on your own laptop or server.

Edmond6• 13 years ago

cool, would be happy to see if there is stuff we can make use of in our own product:)...ours is not an official open source product but the source code is included for end-user modification.

Aaronn• 13 years ago

Many competitors but without signing up for either of these services (crud or code) I can say the codebox website is much better designed and is really clean.

Buttons are getting cut off, FONTS and there is a blank about page on crudzilla?

Edmond6• 13 years ago

not sure which browser you are using or what your settings are but I have not received any complaints about the site design. The last person who complaint about the site was using an iPhone, hopefully you aren't doing the same:)

Also while site design is important, I should add that our product is not the same as our site.

benologist2• 13 years ago

This looks nice but it's missing one feature that's stopped me from adopting services like this after having tried a couple of them - let me download the VM!

There are I think two fundamental problems with remote IDEs. One is of course offline mode, and I don't think "sync your code later" is a solution unless it also lets you "test your code now". The other is remote resource restrictions that mean you can only use a remote IDE for some of your projects and still have to maintain a complete local environment for everything else.

Being able to download the VM means local hardware for projects that need more hardware, and real offline mode for people that need it. Going open source allows for this but it still leaves all the work of setting up each box which can be a real PITA (cloud9 is very hit-or-miss) and that can probably be monetized especially with the added benefits of remote access for when that is better or necessary.

Edmond6• 13 years ago

try ours (crudzilla.com), it is downloadable and multi-language..and if you are in an enterprise environment, java should fit right in.

eruditely• 13 years ago

Okay dude, we get it. How about one or two posts per thread.

pixeloution• 13 years ago

Well, other than it not actually working, its fine. I click 'start editing' after setting up a box and it prompts me for a username and password.

SamyPesse2• 13 years ago

It should prefill the username and password. if not, use your Codebox auth credentials.

octix• 13 years ago

So far I have never felt need of such a service, remote IDE. I guess I'm not the target market...

Edmond6• 13 years ago

while native IDEs aren't going away, I think browser IDEs especially for web development are the wave of the future.

Once businesses discover the advantages of having developer access via the browser there will be no turning back. Some developers dislike this notion, but time will tell:)

btw you can download ours (crudzilla.com)

marssaxman• 13 years ago

What are these advantages?

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