Hi, As a "learn Groovy" project, I'm developing a site to manage my media collection (MP3, MP4, AVI, OGG) and I wasn't able to find any open source library to retrieve meta data from this files. I was thinking of something like Linux's file command. I've found few libraries on Java that do one or the other (like mp3info), but not a tota...
Hi y'all. I've just learned the basics of Ruby after being very happy with Python for several years (I'm still using Python for some things), but I'd like to know if there's an idiom or hack to solve this particular problem. I have a Ruby script which I'd like to be able to do require script_name with, but I'd also like to be able to ru...
In general, how do you choose a framework or library to use in your application? Does it have to be open source? Does it have to be commercial? Does it have to be actively developed, well-documented, or have a pretty home page? If your language has native support for some functionality, what would make you choose a third-party framew...
Our group has a "tools library" DLL that several of our internal projects (all C#) make use of. I've developed the intuition that a good chunk of the tools library is used only by one of the projects -- let's call that project "Project A". Are there any .NET tools that can examine the tools DLL and all the projects (maybe the project EXE...
I need to apply a CSS to a Sharepoint site (WSS3.0) based on the theme applied to a site. The CSS would be saved at root site in 'Document Library'. How do I apply the CSS programmatically on the page? Thanks! ...
Preferably a light weight HTML parser, not exactly creating a browser or looking to modulate JS or any http connections. ...
I know, I know, another layer on top of the libraries, but I think there could be some benefits when it comes to porting certain functionality. I thought I would ask and see if anyone has found anything related to this. Essentially it would be a bunch of getters and setters, and any one of the major libraries could sit inbetween. Has any...
I've previously asked a question about an issue I have been experiencing with CSharpOptParse that didn't get much of a response. Since I haven't been able to resolve the issue, I'm looking around for an alternative library. While the issue I'm experiencing isn't really enough of a compulsion for me to search for an alternative...the fac...
We're writing a .NET-based app to read images including RAW files. Is there a good library we can use? Perhaps a wrapper around dcraw or libraw? License-wise, LGPL is fine but GPL wouldn't be. ...
TagLib seems like a good choice, but I don't use C++ and bindings for other languages are limited. Currently I use the ATL library, but it hasn't been maintained since 2005 and I'm having a hard time doing this myself. So I'm looking for another open source alternative that is actively developed. Do you know of one? ...
Does anyone know any (preferably FOSS) C++ libraries that can draw basic graphs? I'm looking for something rather simplistic. Everything I could find through Googling involved complex, scientific-oriented 3D graphs. MathGL seemed like a good choice but I'm afraid it might be way too complex for our project. Thanks in advance! See al...
Well... that's it. I need something simple and reliable (doesn't have to have fancy features - I need to write and read text and numbers from Excel cells) And yes, I would like a sample "Hello Cell" code... What do you recommend? ...
Hi, I'm using Google's RFC2445 implementation (http://code.google.com/p/google-rfc-2445/) for recurrence rules. If I define a MONTHLY recurrence starting on the 30th of January, months with less than 30 days (i.e., February) will be totally skipped. So the Google API would return 30th Jan, 30th March, 30th April, etc. Not good. I would ...
I'm using C++ with the OpenCV library, which is a library image-processing although that's not relevant for this question. Currently I have a design decision to make. OpenCV, being a C library, has its data structures (such as CvMat) declared as structs. To create them, you use functions like cvCreateMat, and to release them, you use f...
With the interest of creating a roguelike RPG (such as Nethack, Rogue, and ADOM), which programming language would be most suitable and why? With the language that you choose, be sure to list any libraries or facets of the language that make it particularly well-suited. ...
I often have customer requesting changing properties, like the version history setting on all document libraries on all existing sites on a farm. So far the best solution I have been able to think of is to script it in Powershell, test the script before I run it, and then pray that I have not overlooked something critical. Is there a be...
Hi all. I'm lookin for a portable wiimote library. I want to use the wiimote for the hardware it has (but I don't need to access any data stored on it). Required features: access to all the buttons (as an exception, no use of the power button is OK) make the wiimote play sound talk to nunchuks and classic controllers preferably: mak...
Any good libraries for quaternion calculations in C/C++ ? Side note: any good tutorials/examples? I've google it and been to the first few pages but maybe you have have some demos/labs from compsci or math courses you could/would share? Thanks ...
I have a python client which pushes a great deal of data through the standard library's httlib. Users are complainging that the application is slow. I suspect that this may be partly due to the HTTP client I am using. Could I improve performance by replacing httplib with something else? I've seen that twisted offers a HTTP client. It ...
Say there is some functionality needed for an application under development which could be achieved by making a system call to either a command line program or utilizing a library. Assuming efficiency is not an issue, is it bad practice to simply make a system call to a program instead of utilizing a library? What are the disadvantages o...