Dropbox and Cloud Computing

[StBarnabas]

All
I have been using dropbox for some months

http://www.dropbox.com/

And it looks a good and very simple system which will alow sharing of files such as PIC and  Arduino codes for example. The service is free of charge up to a decent size limit which increases every time you get someone else to join. Is anyone else interested in sharing codes etc?

Sean

[stephendv]

For source code, google code offers some nice features: version control, wiki for documentation, issue tracking, etc.
http://code.google.com/hosting/

[EccentricAnomaly]

Other options if you use a version control system ¹: https://github.com/ (if you use Git) or https://bitbucket.org/ (for Mercurial). Both free for open-source.

¹ You do use a version control system, don't you?

[StBarnabas]

Thanks both for the links. i have been using version control professionally for 30 years, though I have not used it for my far more amateurish forum related stuff. If there were genuine interest I could be persuaded to up my game.
Sean

[KLD]

Sean, List,

We're using Dropbox at work to share engineering drawings, test results, snippets of software, you name it. Works a treat, is very low level, integrates effortlessly with various client operating systems, hasn't had a single dropout over the last year (that I'm aware of). For tose who haven't used it, it's mainly a synchronisation machine, i.e. you share a local folder on your machine with nominated remote users. Whenever you change something in this local folder, this change is synch'ed with the group members' respective folders. As a bonus, the central server keeps track of the information being shared, even some history of it -- so you get a little backup service thrown in for free.

Klaus

[Rhea View]

I find Dropbox extremely useful for working at home. Syncs effortlessly with iPad.

[gb484]

my son uses drop box regularly to save work, but a word of caution - this computer neanderthal managed to delete everything in there with just two clicks, don't ask me how. It took him around an hour to reinstall everything, so my advice would be to back-up important data somewhere else in addition.

[clivejo]

Just to be fair and mention an alternative and because I use Ubuntu One! 

Its fair to say its had a few problems in the past, lets call it 'teething problems', but its starting to settle down and is nicely integrated into Ubuntu. The future looks bright for it.  The free version is 5GB compare to Dropbox which I believe is 2GB, and has clients available for most major OS.  Also it has a web interface for if you need to access a file say at work, friends house, or to save something at the library etc

[wookey]

Dropbox is non-free and thus a right PITA for people like me. We have hundreds of ways of sharing files without using a special proprietary component to hide what's going on, or make it completely inaccessible to anyone running arm linux or indeed anything else that dropbox don't provide one of their secret binaries for.

Just say no. There is a perfectly good internet/WWW out there that already shares files.