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Peter Donker
Tue, 03 Jul 2007 23:57:19 GMT
Using a shared machine to co-program at a distance. Cool collaboration effort at Bring2mind.
For DMX 4 I work with a partner in Austria (yes, this will be a truly Alpine product like the soccer championships: Euro 2008) that develops the WebDAV component. In the past couple of weeks we have been debugging and refining this part. To do this we set up Windows 2003 where we could both reach it. We installed all necessary parts for DNN to work, and we installed VS 2005. Then, using the ability to share a desktop, we called up the solution on a common desktop. We called each other over Skype to discuss and used our local web browser and Word to check if things worked. Note that when sharing a desktop like this, the mouse and keyboards are linked as well. So if he moves his mouse at the same time as me, you get a very drunken pointer on screen. It was intense to work together like this but very very productive. Some of you probably do this on a daily basis, but for us it was a first and we felt we had discovered a new way to collaborate on software production. Long live the internet!
2 comment(s) so far...
Re: New levels of cooperation
What remote desktop software did you use? I have used Windows Remote Desktop (each user gets an independant session) and Netmeeting (can have session, but only one user controls at a time), but not anything where both have control at same time.
By lneville on
Wed, 04 Jul 2007 12:17:14 GMT
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Re: New levels of cooperation
Both log in to their own desktop session. Then one requests to latch on to the other's session and this effectively puts us on the same page. I'll ask my partner to spell out the procedure here one time.
By donker on
Wed, 04 Jul 2007 12:18:46 GMT
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