Abstract Lots of software these days needs to enable collaboration between several users. We know how to build basic web apps, where all users read and update data in a shared database. But real-time collaboration, as we know it from Google Docs or Figma or Trello, is a much bigger challenge. It gets even harder … Read More
In the first episode of 15 Minutes With, Tracey Welson-Rossman and Sujan Kapadia discuss ideas to help remote teams work more effectively, while focusing on the human side of things.
Abstract Great automation doesn’t replace humans; it enhances us. When we are choosing or building tools for our team, we want them to play like team members: keep us informed, make the easy decisions repeatably, and pass the hard decisions to the humans along with the information we need to make them. Based on research … Read More
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In this episode, host Ken Rimple talks to Jessica Kerr about how we work with software, and how Atomist, the automation tool that she engineers, makes delivery easier. They discuss the current state of open source, making sense of documentation, and why software is such an exciting field to be in right now. Jessica also shares … Read More
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Joe Gregorio, Google Developer Advocate and member of the Google App Engine team, is also working on Google Wave, a new collaborative environment that mixes concepts from IRC, Mail, IM, and document sharing. APIs http://code.google.com/apis/wave/ Example bots: builtins: Linky automatically makes links of text typed in to the wave. For more examples, look at wave-samples-gallery.appspot.com Developers … Read More
