Show HN: AtomPair – Pair Programming with Slack and HipChat Integration

by funkylexoo • 11 years ago

127 34 11 years ago

apeacox• 11 years ago

Tried yesterday with my colleague. Actually, it only supports one file per session (see TODO in the README), IMHO this limit doesn't make it usable for a real pairing session, especially when you need to work on several files in a project.

funkylexoo3• 11 years ago

Thanks for the feedback -I'll share at once with my colleagues. The code is open source though, it should be reasonably easy to add these features.

organsnyder• 11 years ago

That's the big thing that's stopped us from using this and similar tools. Most projects involve frequent switches between multiple files.

mattbessey• 11 years ago

Maybe not terribly useful for real world programming (while there is a one file limit), but for interview coding sessions it seems brilliant to me. Great work!

funkylexoo3• 11 years ago

Thanks! Really appreciate the feedback.

TimJRobinson• 11 years ago

Cloud9 Collaboration mode is also open source: https://github.com/c9/c9.ide.collab (Same code that's used on http://c9.io which can be used for free). Has chat and ability to work with multiple files out of the box.

ThePhysicist• 11 years ago

Am I the only one here who thinks that "Molecule" would have been a better name than "AtomPair"? ;)

jpatel531• 11 years ago

Hehe - I love it for sure -- we considered it but decided on something more 'obvious' :)

funkylexoo3• 11 years ago

I had lobbied for Democritus... unsuccessfully :(

joeyspn• 11 years ago

I would have named it "Van der Waals" or "Spin"... =)

davexunit• 11 years ago

Diatomic.

maniacalrobot• 11 years ago

better than "quantum teleportation" I guess

mathgeek2• 11 years ago

The name these days would probably end up as Quantumly.

mathgeek2• 11 years ago

My personal choices would have been "Covalent" or "Ionic," but naturally those are taken already.

ThomPete• 11 years ago

Would this work for teaching programming remotely too?

thebouv• 11 years ago

Sounds like a great idea for it. If you can get someone to be 1 on 1 with you like that.

gpmcadam• 11 years ago

Can anyone suggest a similar package for Sublime Text 3?

manveru• 11 years ago

https://github.com/Floobits/floobits-sublime maybe?

veb• 11 years ago

An "old idea", but executed brilliantly. I absolutely love this, and will be watching the development closely.

I've always been a fan of 'pair programming' even remotely using Skype for example... but that's not that great (you can only watch, or one person can only work at any single time) but this is actually designed for real pair programming over the internet. Love it!

Great stuff!!

atrilumen2• 11 years ago

Did you consider using a WebRTC data channel for this?

hazelnut• 11 years ago

As it was developed by Pusher I guess it was not their goal.

DanWaterworth• 11 years ago

Indeed. However, if WebRTC had been used, how would the state be synced? Having a central server vastly simplifies that problem.

Disclaimer: Pusher employee (didn't work on this project though).

steveeq12• 11 years ago

Interesting. I'm a regular emacs user though. Does anyone know of any pair programming extensions for emacs?

scottjad• 11 years ago

https://github.com/Floobits/floobits-emacs

Or, screen/tmux.

steveeq12• 11 years ago

Whoa! Cool! Thanks, I didn't know this existed!

davefp• 11 years ago

Neat!

I realize that this was developed in-house by Pusher, but what I'd really like to see is floobits-atom reach maturity since their service is already editor-agnostic.

https://github.com/Floobits/floobits-atom

RobotCaleb• 11 years ago

I've started a project doing pair programming livestream sessions. We're using floobits integration with sublime as editing (multiple) local files is ideal.

If this reaches that level I'd love to try it out.

haphazardeous• 11 years ago

Am I the only one who thinks pair programming just makes you sleepy?

elyrly• 11 years ago

Whats the prevalence of Atom as a text editor?

cmpb• 11 years ago

From what I understand, Atom has a pretty big user base and it's getting larger. Now that they've squashed a lot of the bugs that plagued the early versions, it seems to be taking off.

Note: I've been using it for over a year, so I may have a biased view as a member of the community.

bl4ckcontact• 11 years ago

Wonderful execution. Great job!

KFW504• 11 years ago

This is really impressive!

maxjet• 11 years ago

Looking at the profile of the developer who made this - he's only been coding for a year. Not a bad effort for a Makers Academy bootcamp grad

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