I'm creating a program for end-users, that's already written using MySQL and some OpenOffice.org Star Basic Macros. I was wondering if there was an open source single user database that would be easy enough for the average Joe to install, (or that I could write a macro to install it for him...) ...
I'd like to have a ActiveRecord implementation in Java and before crafting my own, I'd like to know if there is an open source implementation of it. I am aware of other successful java OR maping tools like Hibernate, Castor, etc... and that is not what i want, i want a ActiveRecord like in RoR: RoR ActiveRecord .NET Castle ActiveRecor...
What, if any, are the most popular ways to get some money from a FOSS-project? I see that many projects ask for donations, and some of the larger ones do get a decent amount of donations. But how about the smaller ones? Is it really realistic that, assuming you have a small userbase, once you put a "please donate" badge somewhere, the c...
Anyone know of an opensource Barcode reader for Delphi, that reads barcodes from a webcam? Update: Thanks for all the help. I found that purchasing a cheap barcode scanner was much more efficient :) . ...
I'm looking for a shopping cart solution for asp.net, but as it's quite a low price solution, don't want to buy one/spend too much, so something open source, or reasonably priced (eg less than $500). It needs modifying for our purposes, so need source code. Alternatively, is there any good way of doing a "hosted" cart with an api which...
We have a pretty cool little web framework that we have used successfully on dozens of client projects. We are planning to release this software to the community. However, I am wringing my hands about what should/should-not go on a new open source software project page. What are the things the site must have? Docs? A Wiki? A link to down...
I hope this isn't a duplicate... What is the most solidly designed and implemented software system/framework/application that you've come across? It seems like TDD, SOLID principles, OO design patterns, and things like that can be easily theorized on podcasts and blogs using really simple examples, but it's hard to imagine developing ...
I worked with StreamBase in a previous life, and found it to be very useful for processing streams. However I can't afford StreamBase for a project I'm doing now, but if there is an open-source alternative I'd like to give it a spin. My other solution was to hack together a StreamBase like application using SQLite, but that'll take some ...
I have been a working programmer since the turn of the century and I have always been fascinated by the open source world. I have wanted to contribute to these projects but I find it difficult to find the time that I think these projects would require. I find professional software development to be a huge time sink. Almost every projec...
Duplicates: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/43649/how-to-get-involved-in-an-open-source-project http://stackoverflow.com/questions/382977/what-are-the-steps-to-start-contributing-to-an-open-source-project http://stackoverflow.com/questions/335036/what-is-a-good-resource-to-help-start-an-open-source-project http://stackoverflow.com/q...
Are there any open source tools for building or designing houses? Does it have many features, like calculating costs or simulating extreme weather conditions/aging, etc? I had the idea to start up a project like this, or join it; I think it would be really neat, but I couldn't find anything on it. ...
I have web site developed with Grails. On the site there is google adsense and links to amazon. I would like to open source the implementation of the web site but I am not sure if I would still be able to "make money" using adsense. So question is, if I open source the code behind the web site am I still able to run google adsense on t...
Disclaimer: I know you're not a lawyer! :) This question is for university assignments, not work nor personal. Say I'm looking for the implementation of something very very specific, and I find that in an open source project (say, using google code search). The thing itself is about 20 ~ 30 lines of code, and constitutes less than 10%...
I know that the wiki concept is let people from around the world contribute and everything. Now is there a way to add code ("contribute") to Wikipedia's codebase? Open-source? For eg. I'd like to offer a poll to every Wikipedian (registered user) on their user-page asking whether they're deletionists (rather have less) or additionists (...
I asked a similar question before, and got some good answers, but I think it was too general. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/559484/examples-of-great-software-design-and-implementation Does anyone know of any open-source projects that demonstrate really good TDD practices, and SOLID principles? TDD and SOLID are widely publicized,...
I'm looking for an open source implementation, preferably in python, of Textual Sentiment Analysis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentiment_analysis). Is anyone familiar with such open source implementation I can use? I'm writing an application that searches twitter for some search term, say "youtube", and counts "happy" tweets vs. "sad"...
What C++ open-source projects have good and clean code? I would like to go through it and learn the design and implementation tricks used there. There was a similar question about C code here, but I would be specifically interested in C++ projects, especially in ones that use modern programming approaches and have modular but not bloate...
Is F# open source? if not so why Microsoft provide the source code of the F#'s modules? EDIT (Nov 4, 2010) Things have changed, see Brian McKenna's answer. ...
I was reading that question and I remember of the Wikipedia list of algorithms. I know that Wikipedia have a list of Open Source games too, but what I want is a links for simple game algorithms, even if written in pseudocode. As "simple" games, I mean games like Sudoku, Bejeweled, Solitaire, Minesweeper, Labyrinth, Snakes, Gorilla, Che...
I'm working on a project where we develop a small solution. A lot of the code and the concepts I had previous to starting this project. I also put in a lot of my own time during the development. The product is not a very important product that somehow would give the company I work for any direct advantages but a simple monitoring product...