I am trying to come up with a complete list of web applications that are useful for research or teaching. I’m sure people on this list have heard about and/or used plenty of them and I’m eager to hear any feedback they might have about it.
In particular, have you used them to collaborate with coauthors ? Are there solutions worth paying for (subjective assessment allowed…) ? Is it already realistic to fully work from the cloud ?
I have used the mybinder service. It is really handy for launching a
live environment with minimal setup requirements. I have come across
one or two times when all 400 slots are used up and the site is "busy"
but that doesn’t seem to happen to often.
re: dat
I am trying to find some time to really dig into dat and see how it
works. I should do so in the coming weeks - so I will let you know how
I go.
I really like the goals of the project to make tabular data shareable
and version controlled. For applied work it would be really good to
have a git for data available.
I think I will focus on dat more than syncthing - but the syncthing
software is being employed on some open source NAS type servers.