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Interview: Inside Neutron Drive with Paul Bailey

Recently we  spoke to Paul Bailey, an independent software developer from Houston, United States. Paul is a developer of Neutron Drive , a cloud based Google Drive code editor. Also Paul is a winner of  Google Apps Developer Challenge 2012 . Here's the inspiring interview that sheds some light on his development, passion, and open-source love. Lets get inside! "Great job and I love to follow your stories on RSS!" -  Paul Bailey Hi Paul! First tell our readers something about yourself. Paul: I’m a father of three, former aerospace engineer that learned how to code in my free time.  Now I make a living as web developer writing web apps mainly in Python, Javascript, HTML, and CSS. Tell us about Neutron IDE. Why did you choose the name “Neutron”? Paul: Neutron was a cat I had at the time; he has since passed away.  It started off as project I was doing so I could code on a Chromebook, so I figured I’d pick a name that I w...

Neutron Drive will no longer available for Free

Neutron Drive is a cloud-based code editor, easily works and integrates with Google Drive, has got few updates here. Before getting started exploring its updates, let’s take a look what Neutron Drive does exactly for its users. As we discussed earlier , it is possible to carry your coding stuff easily after integrating Neutron with your Google Drive. The biggest recent change we noticed is that ,Neutron Drive is no longer available for free. However, everyone who accessed Neutron Drive before today will receive a free year of service. The new price for Neutron Drive will be $3.99 per year. Without any further changes, developer assured to bring some great features that will make Neutron Drive a fabulous everyday code editor in future. " In addition to winning the contest though, I received great feedback from the users and Google staff. And while I started Neutron Drive as something fun and not necessarily something completely useful, I can see a great future for Ne...