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How to prepare your computer or mobile device for WxT CodeFest

Thomas Gohard edited this page Jun 20, 2013 · 6 revisions

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A major goal of the WxT CodeFest is to enable and encourage collaboration on various activities involving the Web Experience Toolkit. It will be much easier to collaborate on these activities if you prepare the computers and mobile devices you will be using at WxT CodeFest in advance. The following suggestions from the Web community will help you to prepare. If you have any other suggestions then please add them to the page.

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Recommended collaboration tools

For a list of recommended collaboration tools, including chat rooms and wikis, please refer to the WxT CodeFest Collaboration Activity best practices.

Laptop/desktop computers

  • Modern Web browser (since GitHub has some display issues in really old browsers such as IE7)

Recommended software for developers

Note: Firebug Lite is available for IE, Opera, Opera, Safari, and Chrome.

Mobile devices

There are several tools available for collaborating with a smartphone or tablet but there may be limitations in comparison to a laptop or desktop computer.

Twiddla

  • Smartphones:
    • Very limited view of the workspace (drag toolbar to move workspace and change device orientation to reset position). Best to keep work in the upper left quadrant.
    • EtherPad is not available on iPhone.
    • Can't import your background (Web page, image, document, etc) but can view the background imported by someone else.
    • Drawing tools very limited on iPhone. Can't change colour or shape, can only draw and move displayed components.
    • Can't add grids, shapes, mathematical formulas, widgets/code and text annotations (can view when added by someone else).
    • Unusable in BlackBerry Torch and earlier. At most a read-only view of a small portion of the workspace.
  • Tablets:
    • No limitations other than can't add mathematical formulas, widgets/code and text annotations (can view when added by someone else).

Coding

Most mobile devices may be limited to just using Github's Web interface for simple code editing.

Chat rooms (Chatr, PiratePad, Twiddla)

  • Smartphones:
    • No known limitations with Chatr or PiratePad on any smartphone
    • No know limitations for iPhone in the Twiddla chat room.
    • Very difficult to use Twiddla Chat in BlackBerry Torch or earlier
  • Tablets:
    • No known limitations in Chatr or Twiddla.
    • Best to use PiratePad in portrait mode. On-screen keyboard may overlap text to be edited when tablet is in Landscape mode. No other limitations known.

Wikis

  • Smartphones:
    • No known limitations for iPhone in GitHub wiki.
    • GitHub wiki editing is sluggish in BlackBerry Torch or earlier.
  • Tablets:
    • No known limitations in GitHub wiki.
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