https://www.nitrous.io/ http://codev.it/ https://codio.com/ etc, etc
It would be far more sensible for Codeanywhere to offer / license a VM or Docker appliance that you could host on your own server, that you could monitor its network traffic, and so on. This way you could have some sense of security.
When a chunk of source code can ultimately be licensed for millions of dollars, you probably want to have a bit more protection for your IP. Not being so much paranoid as practical.
1. The legal protections and auditing are actually enough. 2. The companies hosting mail and code successfully have better security than most customers that would otherwise run those services in-house.
Also should a supplier suffer a breach they have powerful incentives not to disclose that breach to you, and where intellectual property is involved (e.g. code) the theft may well not become immediately apparent.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergen_Line#Line
Side-note, the Norwegian broadcasting service, NRK did a pretty crazy stunt filming the whole thing, and airing it on tv: http://nrkbeta.no/2009/12/18/bergensbanen-eng/
The only thing I am missing is a local pypi to cache my commonly used 3rd party apps.
I use my laptop a lot on the go. Trains, Airlines, Pubs, Coffeeshops, and so on. Some places will have Wifi, or others I'll be able to tether. But I don't like to rely on having it to be productive.
Have XAMPP running or some local server. Go have a blast.
> NOW AVAILABLE ON ALL PLATFORMS
Now, I guess readers are willing to forgive Symbian and AmigaOS not being in the list the follows, but if you say "all platforms" you have to at least include Windows Phone.
My issue isn't really with OS support however, and it's perfectly OK to skip not-very-popular platforms. But if you put at least one blatant lie on the front page, you don't give me confidence that it's the only one.
edit: Sorry, the word "phone" was a widow and I missed it.
But I want to be a critic, like always. There are at least a dozen of "code anywhere" solution out there and most don't solve the core problem which is that we can either write code or run code with very very limited privilege.
As both a Github and a Bitbucket user, I can code anywhere I want as long as there is an Internet access. I can edit my files right on the page, or just fire up a new gist on gist.github.com to write a short snippet. I use jsbeautifier.com to make my JS code "prettier" if my code is getting messy. If I have a modern version of Firefox I can even write my Javascript in a scratch pad.
The issue is again I don't have an environment to run code and use the tools I want to use. I don't mean that this is an easy problem to solve as everyone has their own special setup (e.g. different dot files, tab vs space, etc) and minus security handling and hardening. But that is the hard problem, and the real problem worth digging.
I honestly appreciate the criticism, and I agree on the problem that exists and we are trying our best to solve it and we believe that we are on our way there, especially with the new DevBoxes. Feel free to try Codeanywhere out and send me/us more (constructive) criticism. Thanks!
When I say logged in, I mean that this was the first thing I saw after doing the one-click signup via my google account. I'd advise you to fix your product before advertising it, and let us know so I can have another look.
http://i.imgur.com/ZX9w3rD.png
Google Chrome for Linux 36.0.1985.125
EDIT: Works fine after a couple of refreshes. I didn't know codemirror had that diff mode. Nice.
http://i.imgur.com/uLvQqic.png
But will look into it. Appologise
This does not deliver.
If this is possible, it isn't clear at all and I couldn't find documentation on it. If this is some sort of premium feature, that's not clear either. Please get your marketing copy in line with the platform's actual capabilities.
Great contribution!
Couple of things:
* Have you tried making the tour/tutorial a small toast notification, rather than a modal? (I'm allergic to modals)
* Could I have a button to "Create from github project" which would check my project out into a new workspace/sandbox/devbox?
Congrats.