Working on a website from two locations

[squiblo]

Hello, I have recently partnered up with a new friend to help design and develop a website, as I live in the UK and he lives in the USA. How can we communicate, work together as a team so we always know what we are both doing in the most effective way possible?

 

Thanks.

[trq]

The first thing I would be doing is setting up a Subversion server and an Issue tracker.

[shortysbest]

I'm actually having this same exact problem

[squiblo]

@thorpe, please could you elaborate so I could do some research on google

[trq]

Subversion is a version control system allowing developers to checkout projects, then to update the repository with there changes. Version control is an essential tool when working in groups (personally I use it even when working alone).

 

There are many issue trackers around (I use one called Jira by http://atlassian.com, though there are plenty of free ones). These allow you to post bugs, feature requests, proposals whatever.... and have each feature (whatever) tracked through various stages of implementation.

 

Again, these are another way of making sure you don't tread on each others toes. A dev can login, assign a task to himself then go about there work knowing that know one else is doing the same task.

[cliffdodger]

ALso if you're not already using skype to keep in touch I would recommend that. Skype has great voice/video chat features.