I am putting together an Java application that needs to display some basic lab instrument components. For example, I'd like to display: a strip chart, oscilloscope-style trace, and a panel meter (galvanometer needle). Rendering requirements are open (as long as the engine is free and generally available). Any suggestions? ...
Is there an open source implementation of Google AdWords, or is the technology protected in some way (such as being patented)? Edit: To clarify, I'm looking for a 3rd party implementation of an AdWords-like system (that has nothing to to with Google AdWords beyond the concept and superficial similarity). ...
I need a workload automation tool, similar to BMC Control-M or CA Autosys which is open source and preferably written in Java. What do you recommend? ...
I'd like to use gSOAP in a product which will be distributed commercially. The use I have in mind is what I suspect is a pretty typical workflow—generating a header using wsdl2h, consuming the header with soapcpp2, and then calling the functions generated in the stub in my code. I'm not 100 percent sure which license(s) I need to use to...
I am looking for a free open source IDE for flash development. I got an old project, built in flash, and I need to fix some bugs... I have the source code (some '.as' and '.fla' files) and no experience at all with this tecnology. I can edit the action scripts but I not able to work on the FLA files... so, I am guessing I need an spec...
I am currently writing an open source wrapper for a COM object. I have just installed StyleCop and run it against some of my code, and as I expected it threw up a load of warnings (some of which I should have been doing already eg adding "this." to all local method calls and variables) How many of these warnings should I try and reduce...
Let's say you want to start contributing to an open source project with thousands LOC. I am interesting in ways/suggestions on how you would start learning/hacking the new system. ...
I have an idea for an open souce project, but have absolutely no experience in either working on an existing project or starting one. For those of you that have some experience, what would you say would be a good resource/place to start on information for newbies interested in starting or working on an open source project? Thanks, Tome...
Hello, Do you know some good Open Source project written in PHP that is a finest example of MVC and is just the best example to learn how to write a state of art project? kind regards, ...
I'd be interested in contributing to an open source project, but don't have a clue where I could find a project thats looking for people. Is there a site that lists open ones and what they're looking for etc? I'd be particularily interested in java projects ...
We want to implement chat on our website so that users can communicate with each other. Our general requirements are: It should be rendered on our web pages, but it could be rendered in an IFrame or something like that. The users of our website are part of the general public, not internal teams, so we don't want them to have to ins...
Where should one go to be kept updated on all of the security flaws/problems floating around? Specially in the era of open source where we tend to use libraries from everywhere. ...
This is basically a open source library project aimed at developers. It's dual licensed and all version would need a registration on our site to run end product. What would be best channels for offering support for developers? I'm thinking forums, mailing lists, etc. Maybe even use a site like SourceForge, but then going on our site f...
I was always wondering about this seemingly utopic world of open source. Assuming the vast majority of users here are professional software engineers which need some sort of income source, I assume most of us hold stable, money-making jobs. So who are the key players in the open source community? Who are the people which devote their p...
I want to see a basic project to learn how to organize membership and role management. Can you give me some open source project link about it? ...
Any advice for making the transition from propriety / corporate development to open source? I really believe in open source and try to use it whenever possible, and I'd like to get involved, but I don't have time to do it for free. I've mentioned my desire to a few colleagues and they were thought it was pretty funny that I expected to...
Hi, I'm not working for a software company but my company has a software development team. I think that is good for the company to open source our developments for some reasons like: We are contributing the community ;-) Is a good quality check. If it's useful for others, we are going on a right way We can benefit on others contributi...
When working with some open source projects (in my case Joomla and Moodle), I've often had to delve into the core code to make some alterations, but the problem is keeping track of these changes so I know which files to update on the production server, as well as which files to keep a special eye on when upgrading to a new version so my ...
I've been digging through Stack Overflow as well as a number of Google searches, and I cannot find a satisfactory code formatter for Javascript. I have found several related tools, such as syntax highlighters and pretty-printers, but I am looking for a tool that I can ideally create a wrapper for in Eclipse and simply run from the menu ...
Is copying open source code considered legal in terms of license, forget about plagiarism? I have seen some codes is exactly the same as open source code, the only thing changed is the package name and the class name. Thank you ...