The single best collaboration tool for developers? Unix screen. Try asking which screen at your Linux or Mac OS X commandline and you’re almost sure to find the utility preinstalled. Then check out the article by Phil Hollenbeck at linux.com or the post by Ayman Hourieh to get started.
UNIX hacks know screen as the program that keeps your ssh session logged in on a box even if you disconnect at the office, drive home, and reconnect. What’s less widely known are the magic :multiuser on and - S options that turn screen into the perfect extreme programming tool. Start screen the right way at your offices in Austin and then your buddies in Dallas, Phoenix [...]