Monthly Archives: November 2010

Kent Beck Meets Saros

On Friday 19th, a few colleagues and I had a very pleasant Skype chat with Kent Beck. He had been trying to get our tool Saros working, so he could pair program JUnit with his fellow authors, but came stuck on a couple of networking issues. So, we conducted a Saros session with him, helped… read more

Long-Awaited Arrival of the Saros User Manual

Some Saros users have rightly lamented that the user documentation for our plug-in is a trifle patchy and scattered, and that the answers to their questions are out there, but need to be searched for. This can be especially annoying for new users. Well, no more. Over at our official website, we’ve put together a… read more

Saros Looks the Bee's Knees!

In the latest release of Saros, the distributed editing plug-in for Eclipse, we introduce a number of features that improve usability. The first thing you might notice when you power up the new version of Saros is the ability to store and manage multiple XMPP accounts. This feature makes it much more manageable if you… read more