Do you know of well designed open source applications that are instructive to analyse? Of course this question is strictly related to this other post, but I am specifically interested in applications written in Python. ...
Why is it that people write free software, such as openoffice, spybot etc? ...
Programming is learned by writing programs. But code reading is said to be another good way of learning. I would like to improve my unit-testing skills by reading, examining real-world code. Could you recommend any open source projects where the source is extensively tested with unit tests? I'm interested in code written in C++. Thanks...
I was checking codeplex.com and when it's time to start a project, it requires to choose a License. They give us this link to choose the license. What do you suggest? I have read few description and they look very similar. Update Some people asked me what is the project to be able to give me a more specific answer. The project is not ...
It's great to find all those little snippets of code on the Web for your current needs, but is there anything better than getting whole application source code at once and reading it like a book? There's no better way to learn positive and negative aspects of various architecture solutions. That's why I was trying to find some known/bi...
What open source projects would you recommend as a good place for a starting open source developer? Factors that I think would be important are some obvious ones like well written code and a community that is helpful to newbies. But it might be nice if the code base is such that I can start hacking some small problems without really unde...
I'm a little unsure how the open source licensing stuff works. If I were to choose a particular open source license, what do you actually have to do to make it applicable to your software? I would imagine it would be a little more involved than just 'stating' that you're releasing your software under LGPL. And how does this 'contract'...
For a in-house hardware monitoring utility, I need to use gauges and charts to help visualize various metrics. Is there any good open source or free charting and gauge library available for .NET? I am not interested in purchasing any components (which excludes components such as Dundas Charts & Graph, which I know would do the job, but w...
As I hate reinventing the wheel, I wonder if there are any commonly used packaged out there for doing hte simple job of communicating (key,value) pairs of data betweeen two network endpoints (probably TCP/IP is the most likely carrier). I would like something that works in any environment, which for me means Unix/Linux-style socket API ...
I am evaluating datamining packages. I have find these two so far: RapidMiner Weka Do you have any experience to share with these two products, or any other product to recommend me? Thanks ...
I read the high level details on CC-GNU GPL 2.0, and Creative Commons used by SO. I'm not a lawyer, so I'm not sure I get the specific pros and cons of each variation of open source license. What is the difference between the popular GPL's and Creative Commons' licenses in terms of what a software developer or company has to gain or lo...
I need to resize PNG, JPeg and Gif files. Are there good java open source libraries to do that ? ...
Is there an open source alternative to SharePoint? I'd like something that gives the same hierarchical structure and portlet-based design of SharePoint, but is open in source. Web based administration and customization is also a plus. ...
Now that Java is open source, one of the first things I would like to do is to disable array bounds checking for certain blocks of code, where I'm dead sure I cannot go offbounds and where performance heavily matters. Now, I'm not a compilers/grammar expert, so any syntax would be good enough for me: Here's one that I can think of: pra...
I'm currently installing and configuring an open source project on a test server. I've been well trained to use source control, and I want to make sure everything I do is managed properly (both for me, the sole dev/admin, and for future maintaners). The open source project is available as a source download or by svn checkout. I want to ...
I have seen at least one site in the past that had analytics on Open Source projects, describing lines of code, hours worked, number of check-ins, all sorts of stuff. Does anyone know of any of those sites? ...
Anyone know of an opensource PHP Load Testing Framework similar to the Grinder " "http://grinder.sourceforge.net/". ...
I need to conduct a survey of 3 questions. The first question will be Yes/No, the second will have multiple answers, in which you can select multiple answers for just that question, as well as a "other" box that you can fill in an answer. And the last will be a textarea in which they can enter general comments/suggestions. I would lov...
I've been looking for a good PHP ORM tool to use, and I recently found a good ORM class in Kohana. It has a fairly good and simple ORM implementation. The problem is, the code is unreusable outside of the Kohana framework without a rewrite/refactor. It relies on the Kohana class loader and various framework loading strategies to even wor...
For a project I need an open-source free simple forum in C# and ASP.NET (ASP.NET MVC is preferred!). Does anybody know any? ...