Oh you haven’t heard about us already Etherpad Lite is a collaborative editor, sort of like a web-based multiplayer Notepad but with some really amazing features and a really developer friendly community and framework. Etherpad Lite is completely open-source and comes with no douchery what so ever attached.. If you scroll to the bottom of …
Author Archives: John McLear
NodeJS Dublin
Etherpad’s very own Peter M will be giving a talk about Etherpad Lite at NodeJS Dublin on the 28th of June. Sign up now. Wondering where the rest of the Etherpad team will be at the same time? A number of our guys will be sailing to .no to .se to help promote free and …
Testing Etherpad Lite
We have recently partnered with SauceLabs to provide a testing framework for Etherpad Lite. This framework currently supports browser only tests and must be run in Selenium or on the Sauce Labs onDemand service. If you require a key please get in touch and we will provide you one. Here is a video that explains …
Plugin Spotlight: Speech to Pad
You can now talk straight into a pad on Etherpad Lite. This functionality is supported in Chrome only at current however more browsers are expected to support this soon. Thanks to Edy-b for the development work :) Plugin Name: ep_speechinput Plugin Author: Eduard Baun (Edy-B) Plugin Url: http://search.npmjs.org/#/ep_speechinput
Testing Etherpad Lite
We are beginning writing tests for Etherpad Lite and to do this we have partnered up with Sauce Labs who provide an automated browser testing platform. We’re using both Scout and onDemand to accomplish our goals. All of our tests will be written in Javascript and run on the NodeJS platform. If you wish to …
Etherpad Lite at the Ubuntu Developers Summit
At the Etherpad foundation we’re naturally big fans of Linux. I’m not sure if fan is the right word actually.. Linux is at the core of everything we do so we’re beyond fans, we’re actively contributing to try to make software better and we tend to start on Linux then support other operating systems secondly. …
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Etherpad Lite V1 to Etherpad V1.1 Upgrade Path
git pull Open settings.json -> Copy your database settings into your clipboard Copy settings.json.template over settings.json If you use dirty.db change the path from “../var/dirty.db” to “var/dirty.db” Paste your database settings into settings.json Make sure the paths in /etc/init.d/etherpad-lite are correct if you use it. Start Etherpad Lite. (Using whatever technique you want, usually /etc/init.d/etherpad-lite start)
NEW RELEASE: Etherpad Lite v1.1
Major Features: Rich Text editing IE Headings A Plugin Framework for developing, enabling and disabling plugins Video conferencing Read only real time updates Syntax highlighting It’s been a real busy road getting to this point but we’re finally happy with the current status. Big thanks goes to Chad, Egil, Matthias, Robin and a huge thanks …
Plugin spotlight: Linkify
Linkify adds internal links to etherpad lite. This great plugin written by FourPlusOne means you can easily link pads together giving Etherpad Lite more of a wiki style feel. To link pads together use the [[foo]] syntax. Plugin Author: FourPlusOne Plugin on npm
Plugin spotlight: Video conferencing with Tokbox
Want to share video with your friends whilst working on a Pad? Now it’s easy, just enable this plugin and it will automatically bring video conferencing into your Pad. How to install this plugin Visit http://youretherpaddeployment.com/admin/plugins and login with your username/password then search for the plugin “tokbox”. Plugin Author: John McLear Plugin on npm