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OpenID provider library recommendations for PHP

Our PHP site uses a home-grown forms auth implementation. We're considering making our site into an OpenID provider so that we can authenticate (using our exisitng user accounts) users on a StackExchange site. If we have to add code or UI to our login form or add fields to our database, that's fine-- we just don't want to have to rip ou...

Looking for Open Source SaaS model examples.

I'd like to know if there are any base SaaS type systems out there in the open source world. Trying to find implementation options for a new SaaS type product that is being worked on. Java solutions would be preferred but all are welcome. For example: Basecamp will let you sign up for a service and they provide you with a yourdomain.b...

Open-Source Q&A Site Software Implementations?

I really like how 37signals created a simplified Q&A site (i.e. simplified StackExchange) http://answers.37signals.com/basecamp Does anyone know of a free, self-hosted, open-source software implementation that is similar to simplified functionality of 37signals implementation of a Q&A site? ...

Accessing StackExchange API from Emacs

I am trying to access the StackExchange API from Emacs' elisp: (require 'url) (require 'json) (defvar url-http-end-of-headers) (defun read-json () (interactive) (with-current-buffer (url-retrieve-synchronously "http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/users/2386") (goto-char url-http-end-of-headers) (json-read))) M-x read-json resul...

Looking for StackExcange/Overflow app/API for nokia's symbian s60v5

Is there any ready-to go project of app for StackExchange sites for nokias symbian? (somethn' like facebook app) Or maybe any code-base/reference/examples, from witch i can start to develop that kind of app? ...

stackexchange facebook and twitter buttons

I have just seen the buttons on StackExchange sites for Facebook and Twitter status updates. I was wondering how SE is implementing this? I found this excellent post http://amirrajan.net/Blog/asp-mvc-and-facebook-single-sign-on that shows how to sign in and out of facebook in MVC. But SE didn't even ask me to sign in, I was logged int...

Where is the frontend to the database for stackexchange-2.0 sites?

At some point, a few days ago, I stumbled across a database frontend for the Stackexchange-2.0 sites. One could get various statistics and write general queries to the database. I've been looking for that site without much success.... Could someone direct me to such a page? Is there a way to compare the different stackexchange-2.0 si...