open-source

Finding fellow open-source coders for various projects?

Hi all, Does some sort of online marketplace for open source projects/coders exist? I'm looking for a way to find partners before I actually start a project, instead of starting the project alone and letting it die when I find out nobody cares about it. ...

How to stress test a web portal using Java and any other open source -Cloud Test?

There is a website portal ,say W1 .Let's say the no. of users accessing are 3000.Can you please give me the detailed framework/design of how this portal can be stress tested remotely in a cloud setup using Java and/or any other open source.I am not getting any solution. Please help. ...

Where can we get explanations of the code of open source projects

Apart from inline code comments and the discussion forums of the respective open source projects, can anybody point me a single place where I can get the explanation of the code of open source projects, Is there any wikipedia thats dedicated for this where we can find user/community contributed explanations for the codes. ...

How can I do a cloud setup to stress test a website portal?

Can you please give an architectural/design flow of the system which will be able to achieve this purpose? Please note that I am looking to use as less money as possible for this activity...which means I am trying to build the cloud with opensources/servers etc but rying to avoid service providers like Amazon. ...

How to Build a basic Operating System with few features?I am looking for Code with Tutorial.

I found one here http://mjc88.0catch.com/ but then some files and description is missing. Please direct me to one, complete open source OS, which is realistic to be build by a single person and i can extend it with my ideas. ...

Why are some open source projects (eg. NHibernate/Mono) reluctant to apply patches that fix blocking issues?

Hi everyone, I encountered a very embarassing problem yesterday. My particular experience is with NHibernate and Mono, but I see similar cases involving other projects everywhere. While everyone seems to claim that NHibernate is working on Mono, I must admit that I actually tried yesterday, and the 3.0 trunk doesn't work. To me, this i...

Is there a dataset describing all common software licenses?

Is there a public project to build a dataset describing all common software licenses with information on license name, text, compatibility with others and regular expression patterns to identify it? Something similar to oh-count/licenses.c, but language-independent (JSON or XML) and with more details about each license? I plan to build...

Are there any good libraries of functions to use with collections in Java, such as...

Are there any good libraries of functions to use with collections in Java. I'm thinking along the lines of implementations of partition, take, drop, takeWhile, dropWhile, map, filter, reduce...? I can write them myself, but it feels like re-inventing the wheel. Thanks, Alex ...

Java open source to capture IE screensheet of page including scrolling

Using java is there open source code to open a website in internet explorer and capture a screenshot of the the whole length of the page including scrolling. Prefferably without seeing the browser appear on the screen. Need the image as a jpg or other image format, not as html ...

Rails's open source projects with best practices and/or code standard?

I would like to know some of the great opensource projects in Rails with some best practices and/or code standard including unit testing, so that I can learn some experiences from building apps from those sources. ...

Google appengine Java SDK source code?

Hello, Looking for the source of some classes from the AppEngine Java SDK, namely com.google.apphosting.utils.remoteapi.RemoteApiServlet (mentioned here). So I've downloaded http://googleappengine.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ where I expected to find the source code of the class, instead I got zip: maxim@maxim-desktop:~/Desktop/sources$...

How to find GPL source code of a project, which author yanked from interwebs?

Hi all, Is there advice how to find GPL source code that was once readily available on the webs, but now has just disappeared from existence ? I guess 2nd part of question, if product goes commercial, do they have to still share GPL code, or do they have to rewrite app from scratch? Thanks. ...

Looking open source project to parallelise

Hi all. For an assignment I need to parallelise a project, and document on my work and outcomes. So, Im looking for an ideal open-source C# or Java project that would require about 60hrs of work, (so reasonably small - sorry for the generalisation, not sure how to put it into perspective, considering Im still studying) and fairly cpu i...

Open source testing tool for J2ME application?

The intention is to test a J2ME application I am developing. I came across Robot Framework, but not sure if it can be applied to J2Me applications. Are there any other you are aware of? Preferably, I would want a tool that can support headless mode for testing the app. ...

How does one use oauth in a FLOSS app where we can't keep a secret key?

How does one use oauth in a FLOSS app where we can't keep a secret key? If other see the secret and the key, can't he use it to use the user account as if he where me? ...

How to contribute to Rails?

I ran into a problem with ActiveRecord serialization. Apparently, it has trouble serializing hashes where ranges are keys. I found the Rails Lighthouse ticket (https://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994/tickets/3067-activerecord-cant-deserialize-hashes-with-range-keys). I've never contributed to an open-source project before, and this...

Reccomendations for a Museum / Inventory management system that is web based and open source

Looking for a content management system that can be used by museum curators to keep track of inventory. Ideally there are a small set of features: Name / Description / Catalog number Searching Tools Does not need a public view. Pure internal is fine Php / Mysql backend So far the one I have found is http://www.collectiveaccess.org/ ...

Are there any open source C Library (not c++) for Windows Driver Development ?

Are there any open source C Library (not c++) for Windows Driver Development ? I am developing a network device driver that need some functionality such as RegEx, string manipulation, Object Oriented by C and XML and so on... thanks. ...

Open source libraries for generating automated summaries

Hello All, I was looking for a open source library for generating automated summaries out of few words. For ex: if two qualities are given of a person a) good thinking skills b) bad handwriting, i need to generate a sentence like "Bob has good thinking skills however needs to improve on his handwriting". I need to know if any open sourc...

GPL, Drupal, and Source Code to Related App

I realize that if I choose to distribute a custom module for Drupal that I must provide equal access to the source code of said module (without obfuscation). My question is what about a phone app that used data from a Drupal Module? Do I have to release the code to the phone app as well? The app would not function entirely without the d...