There’s been a lot of talk lately about “The Cloud” and how it’s going to fundamentally change operating systems, and specifcally, the way we manage our information. With the anouncement of Google’s Chrome OS, this does seem to be a fair assumption, although the time to reach any significant saturation point is, I would guess, at least 5 or 6 years away.

In any event, the growth of the cloud concept will give birth to a variety of incidental web applications and cool little projects, one of which I wanted to mention here.

Kodingen

Kodingen, www.kodingen.com, is web based development environment for LAMP developers. They’re in beta at the moment, but still, pretty sweet. In their own words:

Our aim in developing Kodingen is to remove all barriers that stand between you and those cool web applications you want to develop. As you know, even to get your simple “Hello World” running, you need to download and install a lot of programs,  deal with PHP, Apache installations, buy a code editor, set up an FTP server and go through lots of other mind-numbing tasks.

No more. We are very excited to give you Kodingen, a tool where you can connect your FTP’s, create databases, have your SVN and bugtracking tools -the minute you create your account. Very soon you will also be able to collaborate with your team instantly without exchanging any passwords.