open-source

Source codes of Famous Games

Hi! There are many hit games, that are out-of-date, and have their code released to the public. Such code would be of great interest for the programmer, wishing to see some good (and often creative) principles of game design, but not the theory (as in many books), but the real deal. So, do you know of any sites, providing lists of (no...

Displaying graphs - Free Java library

Is there a public library for Java (free) that can be used to display graphs (I am talking about discrete graphs - not bar charts, pie charts, etc...)? ...

C# Open Source software that would benefit from parallelization?

I'm not sure if this kind of question is appropriate, but its been suggested I ask here, so here goes. For a subject at university this semester our assignment is to take some existing code and parallelize it. We've got a bit of an open end on it, but open source is really the only way we are going to get existing code. I could write s...

Open source iPad applications

Are there any open source iPad applications ? Please help me by giving some sample ipad source code links , which will help to design good iPad applications.. ...

Do you know any mail archiver software?

I would like to archive my old mails, so that I can keep them safe. I don't want them to be in my mail client, because they are too many, and they slow it down. The best one would be an open-source solution where I can search when I have something old to retrieve. Do you know something like that ? Thanks ...

Community-driven vs company-driven projects?

I always wonder how these two stand against each other: community-driven and company-driven projects. Both being open source in this case. I feel that community-driven projects tend to not having a clear vision and risk to feel very bloated over time. They add features but no one is caring about to keep it simple and remove obsolete stu...

How to use git to modify an open source project and let other people update the project without losing my changes

Hey there, So, I'd like to make some changes to status.net (an open source Twitter clone). Let's say I want to make it so that people can add fonts in their 'tweets', hypothetically. But, I want to keep getting updates from the status.net people...Let's say they make some changes and fix some security holes or add a new auxiliary fea...

Contributing to open source projects

I want to contribute to some open source project related to any of these topics: Formal methods of verification/static code analysis/compiler-related Operating systems security Parallel and distributed computing NLP, AI I don't know much in any of these topics except by undergraduate degree. My objective is to pick up some project an...

Codeplex and other Open Source Resources

I am kind of lost as to what I should be looking for with online repositories of source code that I can browse over for self-learning. However, I'm not too sure where to look, or how to use some of the ones I've found. I've stumbled upon Codeplex which seems simple enough, but I'm come across others in the past (major ones, but the nam...

Open Source PHP Form/Survey Engine

Does anybody know of any open source project that deals with creating forms or surveys? The engine needs to function something similar to Survey Monkey (surveys; each containing survey pages; each containing a survey element - radio boxes/check boxes/text areas or other components) - except that we have requirements to brand it with cus...

OAuth 2.0 Open Source implementation in Java

We will shortly build a prototype which will play the role of an OAuth client to interact with sites such as Facebook. A requirement is that we use OAuth 2.0 (knowing it is still in draft status). Do you know of any Open Source Java implementations of an OAuth 2.0 client library? Our goal is to use it in our prototype, contributing to t...

Time to wait before forking open source software?

I'm working on an application and I needed an API wrapper for it. I noticed that most of the API calls I needed weren't implemented, so I went ahead with adding them in. There are a few bugs that need fixing which I'm planning to fix as well. My problem is that development of the wrapper is almost non-existant at the moment. A bug subm...

PHP OOP - Examples of good OOP usage in open source applications?

A problem I have when developing PHP using OOP is that I'm never 100% sure on the best practices. I can read any number of tutorials and I understand all the "principles", like catching exceptions and how to build my classes, but I don't know how to integrate it all together properly. I'm looking for some good quality open source applic...

Can I write a book about a software program without the company's permission?

I want to write, and sell, a book about a particular piece of software, in particular the open-source community edition. It would be a how-to/tutorial type book Do I need the company's permission to write the book? Can I use the name of the software in the title of the book? Regarding the vote to close, there are over 1000 questions ...

Python - Open source projects suggestions

Possible Duplicate: What are good open source projects in Python for which I can be a contributor? I have been working on Python for sometime now. I just thought I could improve my skills my coding in open source projects. But I'm new to open source! Some suggestions on how I go about doing this and projects for beginners like...

Is out there any C library as simple and powerful as openAL or openCV but for Networking?

So we have: AL for audio, GL for graphics, CV for vision, FFMPEG for encoding But what library is as respectful, simple, intuitive as them for Network data streaming? What I need is generally cross-platform (at least Win + Lin) C library with simple to use but quite deep API for TCP data transmitting, receiving. ...

Does Open Source World Need A New Programming Language?

Lets look around for famous programming languages and their runtime environments and frameworks... C, C++ are hard and complex for a small and simple application. Java is going to be a commercial stuff for Oracle. PHP is good but only about web. C#, VB.NET and commonly .NET Framework is Microsoft product. Mono project? A few people tru...

Need to join opensource project for a newbie

Possible Duplicate: C++ OpenSource project for beginner programmer? How to find opensource projects looking for help ? OpenSource Projects - Is there a site which lists projecs that need more developers? hi all, I am a newbie and I need to join a open source project to contribute and enhance my C++ skills. Anyone got a id...

Java open sources list

Hi, Any idea what are the possible palces to find the list of available open sources/commercial softwares at a sigle place for java platform? , Yes i'm not expecting maven repositories , I just want to know if anyone maintaining the list available in a single place Thanks in advance, - Srinivas ...

What tool(s) for fairly complex stress testing a web application

I'm part of a team developing a new web-based product for our company. Whilst we're pretty positive the application will work perfectly with our expected average of 10-50 concurrent users, we have a requirement to ensure it will continue to work correctly for 1000 concurrent users. Our primary concern is around the loading and displayin...