tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9203557.post4770298216816190259..comments2023-09-27T14:38:58.735+01:00Comments on Mark Little's WebLog: What do developers want in the Cloud?Mark Littlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15072917010265365428noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9203557.post-29162292163720684182011-02-02T16:45:07.881+00:002011-02-02T16:45:07.881+00:00Hi Stefan. What you say is true, but then you coul...Hi Stefan. What you say is true, but then you could do all of this simply by enhancing existing environments. For instance, putting a shared whiteboard into the IDE, allow sharing of desktops, etc., with an option for a shared source tree somewhere (e.g., in the Cloud). I'd rather see us evolve what we're using today in a more collaborative manner than start from scratch.<br /><br />It's still early days for Cloud developers, so I doubt there's a large enough sample of them to make statistical analysis meaningful, but I do wonder what your average Cloud developer really wants. As I said in the posting, the average Cloud developer today seems to be your average XXX developer (where XXX could be Web, Enterprise, or something else software related). Those who I know would run to the hills screaming if they were told they had to start with no offline capabilities, let alone weren't allowed to use Eclipse, IntelliJ etc.Mark Littlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15072917010265365428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9203557.post-7327724947551601302011-02-02T16:09:41.855+00:002011-02-02T16:09:41.855+00:00I tend to agree with all the downsides. There is, ...I tend to agree with all the downsides. There is, on the other hand, tremendous potential in terms of being able to collaborate with a team, e.g. perform remote pairing. Besides, there's no problem in principle to enable offline editing in such an environment, although I admit it will probably take a while before local execution works again, maybe when we all code in JavaScript anyway and unit tests run in the local JS environment. <br /><br /> Which will somehow take us full circle, but so it goes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com