I’m writing about a pretty cool piece of software, SubEthaEdit from CodingMonkeys, which I have used a few times in the past. It’s a collaborative text editor that makes it pretty painfully easy to open a document with one or more people simultaneously, and co-write a document. One person ‘hosts’ the document on their computer and sets access rules, then other people can log in and be given access to only read or to read/write to portions of the file. Pretty nifty stuff.
It uses a series of color coded sections to show who’s written what and where each person’s insertion point is, and so forth. It also has grep/regexp find and replace, which comes in quite handy, and lots of other nice features.
So today I overheard someone on an IRC channel talking about this BLOGZOT 2.0 on MacZOT.com thing. Apparently, MacZOT and TheCodingMonkeys will award $105,000 in Mac software through this promotion if myself and a bunch of other folks blog about the software, as I’m doing, just mentioning a few of the things that they like about it. It’s a neat way to get the word out and establish a user base for them. Now, of course, I liked it when the thing was free, but I understand that these guys have got to make a living. And I hope that they continue to make strides forward with new features and bug fixes.