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Developers tend to "live" in their IDEs. This is an environment they won't leave for hours and hours each day. At least, it's true for many of them.

From the other point of view, the teams tend to get distributed among different locations. Sometimes your co-workers sit in the same building on another storey, sometimes it's another continent.

As far as I know two Java IDE already made considerable steps for supporting collaboration and communication:
IBM with their Jazz plugin for Eclipse and Sun with Java Studio Enterprise/
Here are some resources:

• Building Collaboration into IDEs, article by IBM Research for ACM Queue


• IBM Reserch on this topic at the CHI conferences in 2003-2004 1, 2, 3


• tion called "the most interesting new feature" in recently released Sun Studio


• Online demo of Sun Studio collaboraiton


• Instant developer collaboraiton - yet one more demo from Sun

Posted by Sashka at 10:12 PM | Permalink

After several weeks of pondering over a possibility to follow the trend and become a blogger, I decided I wouldn't do it.

But then ... then I came across b2evolution and here I am, writing this "hello world" message.
:)
So much's still to be done - settling down, changing layout and colors, and writing, writing, writing!

Posted by Sashka at 8:30 PM | Permalink