Hello, My company is about to start building the back-end for one of our new products. The idea is to build a layer that produces resources for every upper layer product (web site, mobile web site, mobile application), also, a significant part of it will be made available as an API for third party developers. You know, the typical start...
I'm wondering how this is typically done at a high level. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but from what I understand, normally you could have some sort of validation. But if you have access to the source code, anyone could see how to send data to the server (or make your own server for that reason). Is there a viable solution for this? ...
Hi there, I'm started to get my feet wet with the android framework, and wanted to work on a game but was looking for a partner to work with. I was wondering if there are sites online where people can talk about a project and possibly collaborate and start a new project. I realize this might be a stupid question, and not appropriate fo...
Are there any open source mobile ad servers available? I have heard of Adhere, based on a version of OpenX, but the development seems to have stopped since last year. ...
Hi all, I'm finalizing my first iPhone apps; and wonder where should I put credit information for open-sources I used in my iPhone app? Should I put it directly in my app (users can see it if they press "About" button) or put it in a file go along with the bundle? The 2 open-source frameworks I used have "new BSD license" and "Apache l...
I want to enhance my AWStats installation by adding the Content-Length field from a POST request/response to my AWStats reports. How do I accomplish this? What do I need to add to awstats.pl? I'm totally new to Perl programming. The LogFormat in Apache is: LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b %{Content-Length}i" enhcommon Many tha...
Possible Duplicates: C# compare algorithms Any decent text diff/merge engine for .NET ? The question title pretty much says it all. I'm looking for a way to programmatically diff two text files. ...
Price comparison aggregators like Google Merchant (former Google Base) shopzilla, shopping.com provide a unified interface for e-commerce websites / vendors - which can submit their product listing through a standardized product feed (example). Visitors can then perform a comparison search in one place for all those products from diffe...
If i take a web application which is subject to GNU/GPL license and modify it in-house and then use it as a subscription fee business model, for eg. user pays for service and web content and not for the software itself, thus i am not distributing the software itself, is my custom version of the software be subject to the GNU/GPL terms of...
Hey all, I need a free open source web based KB, preferably php or ruby (and definitely not asp). I don't prefer wiki style, rather a more hierarchal one. I'll mainly use it for our front desk staff and incident response teams. Quality and stability are of uttermost importance. Thanks in advance. ...
Hi All, I have a service that listens on a socket and handle requests arriving to it and a client loading this service. I want to setup more nodes of the service and use a load balancer to balance the workload. What is , in your opinion and experience, the best open source software load balancer for Linux? Thanks, Ronen, ...
I have an open source project idea and i would like to implement it. What are the best practices and do(s) and don't(s) that i should follow in order to successfully grow it to a community and then keep that community active and involved. I am looking for expert answers(from existing open-source project maintainers if possible), links, ...
I started this thread: http://stackoverflow.com/q/3985423/473612 And it has been closed(disappointed), thus i tailored a new question that doesn't leave room for "subjective and argumentative" behavior. Please read the above thread so i don't duplicate its contents here and please provide whatever external references you have on the su...
I need to look up artist/album/track information for song titles. Is there a free database I could download or a open source web service/api I could use? ...
Possible Duplicates: Open source Python project to contribute to What are good open source projects in Python for which I can be a contributor? Hi, I was wondering what are some open source projects that are easy to code for and contribute to for a beginner. I obviously don't expect to get into feature development, since I'...
Hello, I'm asking this question because I'm not very well informed about some open-source issues, so I hope someone sheds some light on this matter. How can one maintain his lead of software he made open-source. What rights one keeps? Don't I loose my word on direction software is taking after I open-source it? Any things to watch out? ...
I need a tutorial for creating simple, executable web service runing stand alone on windows... So like .exe that can run on any windows with JRE installed and will open port like 4444 and will listen to http(s) calls and respond to them. Tutorial can use Spring and Hibernate and any other OpenSource libs. Tutorial can use any opensource ...
Can anyone suggest a free (or very very cheap) alternative to Nevron Diagrams? I was playing with Open Diagram which is open source but it's very poorly documented and their forum is dead. ...
I am planning on creating a commercial fleet/asset tracking web app, but got discouraged when I found our about the high price Google and Microsoft charge to use their services in a commercial setting. I found Openlayers, and it claims to be free, so I am wondering if anyone has had experience using it commercially? I looks like the us...
Hi, I'm looking for a java framework to build a client-server application. There are many out there but what I have seen until now, they are all in the relational db, bean, browser area (these main components are not requiered for me!). Is there a light framework for a server which just focuses on client sessions, security (authenticati...