Chat for coding collaboration

2009-07-20 Thread Matthew Knepley
I have found chat to be the best way to resolve simple problems when coding, especially questions about parts I did not write. It would be nice if we all had access to the same chat program to facilitate this kind of interaction in our small group. I tend to prefer GChat. Does anyone else have a

Chat for coding collaboration

2009-07-20 Thread Yaakoub El Khamra
I vote GChat Regards Yaakoub El Khamra On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Matthew Knepleyknepley at gmail.com wrote: I have found chat to be the best way to resolve simple problems when coding, especially questions about parts I did not write. It would be nice if we all had access to the

Chat for coding collaboration

2009-07-20 Thread Andy Ray Terrel
This is what irc is for and why lots of open source codes are on freenode servers. http://freenode.net/ Then you can pick what ever chat front end you want, log things for others to see, and so on. -- Andy On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Matthew Knepleyknepley at gmail.com wrote: I have

Chat for coding collaboration

2009-07-20 Thread Barry Smith
I want to use may mail reader as my front end Barry It happens to be Mail.app but that is not important On Jul 20, 2009, at 2:41 PM, Andy Ray Terrel wrote: This is what irc is for and why lots of open source codes are on freenode servers. http://freenode.net/ Then you can pick

Chat for coding collaboration

2009-07-20 Thread Matthew Knepley
I use my mail reader for GChat. I think Apple can do that. Matt On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Barry Smith bsmith at mcs.anl.gov wrote: I want to use may mail reader as my front end Barry It happens to be Mail.app but that is not important On Jul 20, 2009, at 2:41 PM, Andy Ray

Chat for coding collaboration

2009-07-20 Thread Lisandro Dalcin
I'm always online in GChat, as it is up once I enter GMail inside Firefox (or Chrome, or Safari, or any modern browser)... This is very convenient if GMail is used for managing all your incoming/outgoing mail. On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Matthew Knepleyknepley at gmail.com wrote: I use my

Chat for coding collaboration

2009-07-20 Thread Andy Ray Terrel
I guess by using GChat you really mean use PartyChat ( http://techwalla.googlepages.com/home )? No google doesn't support IMAP or POP with GChat. There are some codes out there that do turn any jabber server into emails but they don't seem very polished (

Chat for coding collaboration

2009-07-20 Thread Lisandro Dalcin
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Andy Ray Terrelandy.terrel at gmail.com wrote: I guess by using GChat you really mean use PartyChat ( http://techwalla.googlepages.com/home )? No, sorry. I was talking about the plain Google chat service, the one you can access while using Gmail in your web

Chat for coding collaboration

2009-07-20 Thread Matthew Knepley
The steps are simple: 1) Invite partychat2 at gmail.com to chat using the contacts on the left 2) Open a chat with partychat2 3) In the window type '/join petsc' 4) Then we can all talk at once, and it will be saved I think Matt On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Andy Ray Terrel