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using the open source software

Yesterday I was using google map web application but when I've turned into street view mode, one question arrived in my mind. For example, they blurred human faces and car plates. I was thinking that they didn't write all the code for this, because already are some free libraries which can do that. I know about the license types, but is ...

Online WYSIWYG XML editor

Is there any open source online WYSIWYG Editor for various XML documents? I think the style could be added by XSLT, but if there is an editor, wich uses some other way to assign style to an XML file, I'm intrested. EDIT: I've checked Xopus, Jaxe, Vex, Oxygen, Bitflux already, but none of them are matches the conditions above (not openso...

How do i remove a file from svn's ignore list?

Hi, I'm running Linux and i put some files in svn's ignore list. Now i want to remove it. How could I do that? Command line svn... Thank you ...

List of open-source games/apps with language information

Hi! Do you now where can I find list of opensource games/app with information about language they are write ? ...

Open Source Software Licensing for Government and Public Projects

I'm part of the UK Government's Directgov Innovate team. We are researching which open source licences are best applied to code produced for government and public projects. We're really keen to canvas as many opinions as possible. So, to get involved in the conversation comment on the original blog post here: http://innovate.direct.gov...

Why don't Open Sourced Projects Version their assemblies / namespaces?

If you've used two or more open sourced frameworks then I'm sure you've come across the following problem. Project 1 FrameWork 1 - v2.0 FrameWork 2 - v1.0 FrameWork 1 - v1.0 Project 1 has references to Framework 1 & 2, whilst Framework 2 contains a reference to Framework 1. Unfortunately there is a breaking change in v2....

Keeping a VCS-held open source project mod up to date while using DVCS for managing my mod's changes

I would like to mod an open source project held in SVN. I would like to use Mercurial to hold my mod in version control. (The reason for Mercurial is that I would like to keep track of changesets so that I can split up the mod into components - this is necessary for working with the OpenCart project for example as it doesn't support ext...

PHP open source shopping inventory application

Hi , Please refer some good shopping inventory application(stock in-stock out application) open source. Thanks ...

Javascript Libraries for Annotating Text?

Hi there, I have googled and come up dry. I am looking for a way to annotate text selections (with overlaps) and i was wondering if anyone knows of something like this available already? My goal/use case is that a number of users will be presented the same blob of text and should all be able to independently annotate various selecti...

Python (or maybe JavaScript / Ruby): open source projects that will give me a (bit) of hand-holding

Ive been roaming around the interwebs looking for my first open-source project to contribute to - and most cool ones seem to be one-man bands on github, which I could fork - but wouldnt quite provide the code review etc. i think i want, so i can improve my python abilities. Web.py, flask, celery, twisted etc look interesting - so far on...

C# code for adaptive authentication

Is there any C# code/classes/open-source/tools that is recommended for adaptive authentication? Some functions of our app utilize a Captcha to avoid spamming or inappropriate behavior, which unfortunately also slows down our genuine users. I would like display the Captcha only if certain parameters look 'shady', such as unusual IP addre...

What is a good open source beer database to contribute to and receive information from?

Anyone know a good open source directory to contribute to, or a place that gives access to brewing information openly so that one could be started? ...

Open source, pure Java physics / dynamics library

I'm looking for a lightweight, pure Java physics engine to do some simulations for robotic motion control. My requirements: Rigid body physics Joint constraints and forces Convex object collision detection Lightweight, pure Java so it can be embedded in my application Ability to run simulations quickly Handles 50-100 objects comforta...

How to measure distance to object given two images from two cameras set at a known distance apart

I'm looking for an open source project or library (c++, c) that can give me a method to calculate the distance to a certain object (pixel) in the image, assuming I have all the info about the cameras - The field of view, focal length, distance between cameras, etc.. ...

Similar image search software (like TinEye)

Hi guys, In one of our community sites, we allow users to upload images. These images are approved or rejected by our moderators. To limit the work needed by our administrators, we want to 'log' each picture that is rejected to some kind of database, and do a lookup in this database prior to submitting an image for approval. If a simi...

Recommend an open source case managament system written in C#/.Net?

Hi, We are looking for a Case Management System capable of the following: 1. Ability to create different types of tickets each with different fields. 2. Ability to add validations which call external web-services (we are willing to use js as the last resort, but extensibility points will help). 3. Ability to create fields which pull dat...

Trace the code in Ruby?

Is there a good way to run a script and see all the steps: Which code is executed Which file the code is in What it returns The error messages This would be a good way to learn how an open source project is working. Aren't there solutions like this for Ruby? Eg. require "httparty" HTTParty.get "http://www.google.se" Then it woul...

How to figure out the Linux kernel's source code?

There are some books about Linux developing, internals, managers and so on. but I'm thinking about a documentation that Linux developers write when the commit a patch on the kernel. Does something like that exist? I know there is a mailing list for kernel newbies and some stuff like this but I'm not a newbie and I don't want to be kernel...

Best approach: MMS to Server to DB to WWW

I want to find an existing service, or set one up with available tools, that will do the following: Receive MMS message from a cell phone (picture/video/text/sound/anything else possible) Store attachment(s) into a structured dynamic filesystem Log their respective path, filename, filetype, filesize, timestamp, the sender's phone numbe...

LGPL Licencing for Inclusion into other libraries.

There are quite a few LGPL Libraries that I use that have fallen out of maintenance and have no documentation. I found that a few of these libraries are extremely useful and they are all LGPL or MIT. Could I combine these libraries into my own library, released under LGPL and maintain those myself as a branch? Also, some of these librari...