I'm looking to implement a reputation-based point system for a QA site. I like Stack Overflow's model, but I was wondering if there's anything else like this out there. I was doing some research on the web, but couldn't find a good compiled list of reputation models. If there's a study of reputation models with pros and cons, that would ...
I'm looking for a list of community server packages that I can integrate with C#. I have a requirement to build a community portal/facebook style site with functionality that integrates with a CMS using the .NET membership provider. I need functionality like: Forums Blogs Profile pages Groups Ability to upload pictures and video S...
I wrote an open source app (BugTracker.NET) and I host it at Sourceforge. It doesn't have a plugin architecture per se, but there are ways to tweak and extend it. For example, a prettier css file, or a useful SQL snippet. People ask me, "How can I share this with other BugTracker.NET users?" and so far I've just been telling them to ...
Hi, I own a community website of about 12.000 users (write heavy), 100 concurrent users max on a single VPS with 1Gb ram. The load rarely goes above 3 and response is quite good. Currently a simple file cache is used to store DB query results to ease the load on the DB, but the website still can slow down over 220 concurrent users (loa...
Related question: How do I attract developers to an Open Source project? Coding an open source Browser-Based-Game I code the game/site ninjawars.net. Recently we (me and my friend who mainly admins the server these days) open sourced the code (and creative commons share-alike'ed it). I really love working collaboratively on code, and...
Hi, in the holidays break (and probably for longer) I'm going to program a community website for my sports team. I'm not very keen on the frameworks available and I'm mostly looking for something that's both simple, fast and flexible. I have a few requirements: Easy user interface. Creation of events so users can sign up for them. ...
The buzzword of the internet today is "community" and everything related... folksonomy, collaborative editing. We are an example of community. My question is: what are the possible technical solutions to start and maintain a community? For example, google, when introduced gmail, made two smart moves: generated buzz by launching the ap...
Hi there, I want to access facebook's database. I want to have some SQL-like access, let's say s.th. in this way: "select name from facebook-big-database-table where location='France' and city='Paris' and age between 30 and 40;" But, it need not to be SQL, PHP or JAVA would also be nice to use to me. Does anybody know where to start? To...
As a follow up to my previous question about ADC, I was wondering more generally if there are any good publications, free or paid, that are worth subscribing to in the area of software development and software engineering. Which ones [have/do] you subscribe[d] to if any, and how are they? I KNOW there are important publications in theo...
Hello. Are there any additional jQueryUI widgets besides that come out-of-the-box? Third party or community driven? ...
To begin, not only are there two main dialects of the language (Common Lisp and Scheme), but each of the dialects has many individual implementations. For example, Chicken Scheme, Bigloo, etc... each with slight differences. From a modern point of view this is strange, as languages these days tend to have definitive implementations/spe...
I know that most people will consider this post as irrelevant, and yes, I've read tens of posts saying that Wordpress is "just a blogging platform". However, facts speak for themselves - people do use Wordpress a lot. Moreover, large projects are being developed using Wordpress as the underlying platform. Who doesn't believe it could che...
StackOverflow is wonderful for Q&A style questions, but it is not in anyway a forum for discussing software engineering in general. Where do you go when you are not looking for a forum that is geared for helping people with problems, but just talking about design and development? I've considered real life user groups (never been to one...
We're starting a user group and want our own website for it where people can post, register for meetings, etc. What is the best CMS to use? The server we plan to use is Win 2003 Web Server with IIS 6 and SQL 2008, but also has PHP and MySQL installed. ...
Hi all I am searching a SharePoint Server 2007 Webpart which can do following * change password * lost password recovery (e-mail) * change password reminder (e-mail) I have been searching the Internet but somehow there aint as many webparts as for example WordPress Addons. When I am lucky I can find individuals which made an Webpart ...
I'm cobbling together some sort of an introduction to Python, but one that focuses on the community and the ecosystem around Python rather than just the language. With How to Think Like a Computer Scientist and other great tutorials, it's easy to get familiar with the language, but it took me a fair while before I knew what The Cheese Sh...
There are two questions to this: How can I best "spread the word" about my projects to interested users? How can I best "spread the word" to like-minded developers? I know this sounds easy, but it really isn't. I've participated in official mailing list discussions, establishing a presence on IRC, wrote articles for magazines, hoste...
This is one of those subjective community wiki questions (hope you don't mind), but recently I have been doing a lot of work on the WCF front and specifically hosting in IIS (not self hosting). Is it just me, or does anyone have issues fine tuning timeout values. I'll start by mentioning the sheer number of timeouts you need to fine tu...
I was doing some research into general topics of software engineering and I came across the Java Community Process website: The JCP is the mechanism for developing standard technical specifications for Java technology. Anyone can register for the site and participate in reviewing and providing feedback for the Java Specific...
When given a new task/challenge/application to build, do you always use the same framework, for example spring / struts? Or do you try something new that you haven't used before, such as GWT? What makes you return to the same technology stack? Is it good to be advanced at particular technologies, or to have a broad understanding? ...