I'd like to contribute to open source but I'm not a professional programmer. I contributed an extra function to a PHP project once, but on submission it was rewritten and, in hindsight, the functionality was completely useless anyway. I was actively encouraged by the project members who were very supportive but I can't help feeling I was...
I have just recently started to study Ruby, and in lieu of Jeff's advice over the weekend... Stop theorizing. Write lots of software. Learn from your mistakes. ...I was interested in honing my skills while helping out the Open Source Community the process so I thought I'd ask if anyone have any suggestions for cool/interesting Open ...
If you're following an Open Source project and would like to contribute code changes, what will you need to do?...
I have the Xming X Window Server installed on a laptop running Windows XP to connect to some UNIX development servers. It works fine when I connect directly to the company network in the office. However, it does not work when I connect to the network remotely over a VPN. When I start Xming when connected remotely none of my terminal w...
Any suggestions for a relatively simple, free, WYSIWYG, HTML editor? I have a friend in need of a art portfolio website and I want to her feet wet without forcing her to learn raw HTML or an overly complex (and probably expensive) program. Extra points if somehow this free editor is OSS UPDATE: sorry, still drinking my coffee Windows...
Does anyone know of an OCR library that will run on Windows Mobile (5 or 6, but PPC2003SE would be great). I would imagine that OCR would be native (C/C++) code, but if it was in .NET or at least had a .NET wrapper API, that would be great. ...
I want to start an open source project, but the rise in hosting sites leaves me a little paralyzed with choice. I know a little about several: I never really liked SourceForge's UI but it still feels like the site I think of when I think "open source project hosting". Google Code Project Hosting looks clean and useful but doesn't seem...
I'm working on a personal project in ASP.NET MVC that I plan on making open source. In the past, I've open-sourced quite a few PHP scripts and UNIX-based stuff. For those, I typically went with a BSD/Apache style license, unless I was including a library that prevented it. On the Linux/PHP side of things, that usually meant something tha...
How do I attract developers to an open source project? Obviously if the project were cool or valuable it would be easier to find people. (In fact, they would probably come to me.) But what do I do for the mundane or unexciting? Advertise the project? Spam forums? Or just keep on plugging away hoping that some other folks notice? Is it...
I will soon be looking for new employment opportunities. I have traditionally been classified as a Desktop Admin, but I'm really more of an IT Swiss Army Knife. I am currently on an admin team, but I get asked to do the development type things for the team. I have experience in C#/C++/C/Per/...ad nauseum, but none of it is on a formal de...
What's the best license to use for your software when you want to be paid for commercial use but are happy for non-profits/geeks to use for free? ...
I know this questions maybe are a little "sensitive", but I hope to see some answers to it anyway. And yes, I know it doesn't have an unique answer, but based on the voting on the questions, I hope to see some trends. Anyway; the questions is: What is your motivation for doing free stuff? By that, I mean doing work that doesn't generat...
I am interested in dropping Visual Sourcesafe in favor of a version control application that offers branching. Sourcesafe's integration into Visual Studio makes checkins/outs a breeze. Can anyone suggest some other programs that offer the same functionality? I would prefer open source but it is not a requirement. ...
I am looking for a talented web designer to contribute to an new open source project. Can anybody recommend a good way to find one. ...
Anybody know of a good and reliable open source queuing server/ platform? I'm working on a project which we need to process millions of items from a queue per day. My challenge is that the queue is not a FIFO, meaning that new items are prioritized and can be inserted somewhere in the middle of the queue. Also, to process these items ...
Has anyone used Mono, the open source .NET implementation on a large or medium sized project? I'm wondering if it's ready for real world, production environments. Is it stable, fast, compatible, ... enough to use? Does it take a lot of effort to port projects to the Mono runtime, or is it really, really compatible enough to just take of ...
I've spent my downtime at work this summer writing a framework of sorts for facilitating my day to day work. In short it loads a xml with markup that defines the blocks of the site, their content and the styling of these (very similar to html), handles the loading of assets and such. Now I'm rather pleased with how this is turning out, ...
I'm looking into doing some development for Flash. Do I need to buy expensive commercial tools or are there some FOSS tools out there I can get started with? Clearly there are a lot of tools out there, but are they good enough to actually get work done? What would I be missing by avoiding the commercial or official tools? ...
I know about my options for antivirus, antispyware, and firewall, but are there any higher end security tools for any operating systems (although I'm running Windows and Cygwin, so those options would be especially appreciated) to do things like password recovery, computer forensics, and that sort of thing? I'm currently running the Micr...
After not having much luck with writing to the Python mailing list, I've been on a search for the appropriate place to post my project to and receive developer support. I don't want to blacklist it by posting it to a general site and make it appear as spamming, but I also want to make sure it gets seen by as many developers with experie...