Collide, an open-source project for browser-based collaborative programming, is shown here running on a server hosted by programmer Mohamed Mansour.
(Credit: screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET)
With an open-source project called Collide, Google has released remnants of a tool that brings a collaborative, browser-based interface to programming.
The software runs on a server, letting multiple programmers tap into a project at the same time. It's similar to how Google Docs lets members of a group simultaneously edit the same document and thus a new example of the cloud-computing approach to software that Google advocates so fervently.
But apparently Google wasn't so fervent about Collide, because the two programmers who announced it, Scott Blum and Jaime Yap, said it's actually an ex-Google Project now.
"After nearly seven years, Google decided to shut down its Atlanta engineering efforts," Blub said, and he's moving to a new job as a result. During his his last year at Google, he said, "many of us in Atlanta worked on a project that was ultimately cancelled, concurrent with the office shutdown," he said, but "we were able to liberate portions of our last year of work as a new ... [Read more]
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