A while back in January I wrote a post titled Top 10 Uses for Wave…Right Now! In that post my number one use was for coding, here was what I wrote back then:

Coding. This is my number one use case for Google Wave right now. You have got to try it. You do not need to be ocean’s apart, in fact…being in the same room right next to each other works best. Try it…you will agree with me that this is the number one…by far…best use case of Google Wave right now! Also, there are some pretty good extensions out there you might want to try. Take at look at the extension list if you want to try one or two.

Well…., now there is a really, really great extension out there…brought to you by the folks at wave-vs.net…..check it out:

I can’t tell you how happy I was to find this site. Funny enough it just showed up on my site here on Friday as a Google Ad. I clicked on it and was amazed. I find it very interesting that Google is not extoiling all about these guys on their own blogs. Also, I found it funny that the story of the day on Friday was all about how cool it would be to imbed a Wave as an iFrame! Are you kidding me! There was also some other lame post going around about live blogging with Wave that made a lot of noise on Twitter. Useless! Stupid! I really am getting very disheartened with how this being marketed and how that marketing is seemingly embraced by Google. Really missing the big boat guys!

Regardless…I definitely digress! wave-vs.net is a great leap in Google Wave extensions. These guys have taken the one thing that this technology is really, really useful for…right now…and made a excellent product that they can take to market. Yes, take to market. wave-vs.net is not free. In fact, price list ranges for $65 to $1100 EUR depending on your package. That, in my business mind, is the best news to hit Google Wave since Google I/O 09….somebody is going to make profit of this product and develop serious extensions that are very useful and will be a game-changer for those that will use it for development.

For that alone I am naming the wave-vs.net folks as our April Developer Spotlight. Congratulations guys (and girls) you have truly made a great product that will be heartly embraced by any developers who give it a try. Here is a little bit more about Wave-vs.net that I took from there website:

wave-vs.net is a Plugin to enable Pair Programming built-in Support on Core Editors and Designers in Visual Studio.Net 2008 and 2010.

Using wave-vs.net you can share Project Items and Develop together in Real-Time.

wave-vs.net Current version supports Remote Pairing for main Visual Studio Code Editors and Designers, we continue working to extend wave-vs.net capabilities.

If you are interested to know what Project Items/File Formats are enabled for Remote Pair Programming using wave-vs.net take a look on Visual Studio Integration information.

wave-vs.net does not only implements Pair Programming features. To make Pair Programming experience in Visual Studio.Net

• Federation Server Architecture for Geographycally Dispersed Setup
• Integrated Chat Client with Conference Rooms
• Wave Enabled – Pair Programming – Collaborative Development
• Major Source Control Systems Integration
• Completely Integrated in Visual Studio.Net

Do you want to see a Complete summary Feature List? go to Full Feature List.

For those of you that can’t wait to rush over to wave-vs.net and use this, please come on back and leave a comment regarding your experience with the extension. Also, feel free to leave a comment on my earlier rant if you wish.

As a disclaimer I am in no way getting any type of financial commission or royalty from this product (other then it randomly showing up as a Google Ad). I stand to gain nothing whatsoever from the developers. I am just very keen on what they are offering as I see it as truly making Google Wave better for all.

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As described at the Joomla Homepage:

Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone.

The plugin that was created for Google Wave allows you to embed a wave, as an article, into your website. You can go to the Joomla Content Plugin demo-site and get both information on using the plugin and see a demo of the plugin in action. Of course you will need a sandbox account to see the wave embedded.

One of the very obvious examples of this embed in Joomla would be to act as an alternative comments solution. However, I think there are more insightful and clever ways that this could be better used. Leave a comment with your idea.

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The picture you see below is my Wave account using the Tweety Robot. The Tweety Robot was something that was done by the initial Google Wave development team and shown at the I/O 09 presentation. At the time, however, it was not very secure.

Then since they “put together an OAuth library to extend the Java Robot API that allows for secure authentication using 3-legged OAuth. (See oauth.net for a detailed explanation of the authorization flow). - Google Wave Blog ”

I was originally going to couple this together with my wp-wave-shortcodes embed to show my Twitter account on my webpage. However, you have to add public@a.gwave.com as an address to your wave in order to use a wave on a public site which, in turn, would allow anybody with a wave account access to my Twitter Feed Wave.

So, instead I took a snapshot and hopefully in the future you will be able to do this without compromising your Twitter account security. However, the feature, even as it is now is extremely useful. You can be logged into your Wave account doing many things and also have your Twitter account running right beside you in another Frame. One less app required. One more thing integrated with everything else.

This would be an important feature for the future. Being able to import your Twitter Feed on your own without having to sign up with the spam-peddlers would be a great step in the right direction.

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It turned out to be quite easy to embed a wave into WordPress. For one, there is a plugin called “wp-wave-shortcodes” that adds a little shortcode to the WordPress Post. You will see a little button that looks like the Wave symbol along the “Upload/Insert” line. So, go to your Plugins tab and search for that plugin then install it.

Once installed you then click on the shortcode icon and insert the WaveID you want to embed. You can get the WaveID by selecting a wave and then selecting Debug->Get Current Wave ID, you will find Debug in the top right hand corner of Wave, click on it and go down to Get Current Wave ID. It will return you something lick this Wave ID: “wavesandbox.com!w+YPlHGxn2%A”. The tricky part here is knowing that the WaveID is everything after the w+ and before the end quotes. That is the Wave ID you post past into the shortcode. I recommend sticking with the default setting for everything else.

That’s it. So long has you have a Wave Account & are logged in, you will see the Wave below and be able to take part in the conversation.

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