Yehuda Katz and Tilde.io
blog.nitrous.io
blog.nitrous.io
But is nobody else concerned about needing an internet connection to write code? It looks possible to sync a local repo with their boxes when connected, dropbox-style. But the use case they appear to be focusing on is their in-browser collaborative IDE, which is all kinds of problematic for me in cases like using my own bash settings, coding on airplanes, simulating my production environment, coding on life rafts on approach to a refugee flotilla in the Pacific ocean, and just plain hating latency.
Looks like a perfect for coding on a Chromebook or similarly handicapped machine. For the time being, though, I like my dev environments like I like my video games - offline.
The neat thing about using Nitrous is that I could theoretically work on that app from any machine now, and not have to set up a bunch of tools that I don't use otherwise.
So, I might keep trying to use it for my little side apps, the ones that I work on once a year and don't necessarily have an environment set up for.
They were also super helpful on Twitter, on a Sunday.
Thanks!
Shameless plug: https://www.nitrous.io/join/BiSdgSxLjIk
I think he isn't happy for 50K DOLLARS got on kickstarter (1) for doing "nothing". He is a "writer" and "performance guy" but after merging his "thing" merb into rails 3 he quit leaving rails with a lot of issues and poor performances (compared to rails 2.0) and Merb... dead, as 99% of his "open source". He started bundler (badly) and leaving it in a bad shape to be fixed by someone else, same for thor and moneta ...
Now, late evening, his crew is giving him some points and comments to this crapware in order to get some visibility.
Give him your money!
He use the "opensource" only to increase his income, nothing else.
Rails.app (now Tokaido) is on Github [1] and is coming along quite nicely. Our designer used a build of it to get one of our Rails apps up and running quite smoothly last week. It was super slick and as far as I can tell, there's no indication of it being at alpha or beta stage. It already works great.
Not to mention that Tilde has been working on Ember.js and developing Skylight.io as well. They're keeping busy and producing A TON.
Usually I wouldn't respond to this kind of thing but I think it's a pretty tough sell to anyone that Yehuda isn't working his ass off with the rest of Tilde.
dmix asked why the company was renamed. ics referred dmix to a post. I pointed out that the post ics pointed to doesn't answer dmix's question. wycats had written this in the past and shouldn't be accountable to ics linking to it for this purpose.