I'm looking for some videos about the history of Unix/Linux and Open Source Software. I know (and have) Revolution OS. Are there any others? Edit: I'm a teacher and need resources to show students. Edit: I found Revolution OS on Google Video. ...
What OSS programmers and projects out ( if programmer then list both ) there actively use Agile methods? if they only use some Agile methods, can you list the methods they are using? I don't mean obscure projects, I mean projects a person is likely to have heard of, eg the Linux Kernel, emacs, gcc,... , ...
I'm looking for a light-weight database library that I can compile into a C++ application. Does any such exist? ...
Hi all, I'm starting a project where I need to display my wife's picture books on her blog. I've got the books' data on a database - couchdb - and I want to write a player she can easily embed in her blog. I've got most of the player written in Html, JavaScript & jQuery. Next, I need to write the html and javascript code to encapsulat...
Microsoft is tearing down walls and barriers. Their product and project development process is becoming increasingly transparent. They are blogging all over the place and they are releasing open source code projects by the minute. While all this is great, it can be overwhelming! People like Scott Hanselman are doing their best to keep u...
Are there any Open Source alternatives to Crystal Reports? ...
Hi, We are currently advertising for a team of programmers with in the society to develop an open source project, and we're hoping for a turnout of about 10 - 15 fairly good programmers. Although we need to see what type of a project our team would like to do, it would be great to get some opinions on what people feel is missing / incomp...
I would like to see/learn how solid principles are utilized in a right way in a real projects. Or there is none? ...
We have a project that needs to remain closed-source, but will need to be distributed to software developers who need access to the source code in order to build another project, that happens to be open-source. Is there a simple license that should be used here that basically restricts the use of the software with the exception of for t...
I've been looking for an open source mapping / GIS framework along the lines of OpenLayers but written in Silverlight. Unfortunately I have not been able to find one. Preferably it would be able to consume services (e.g., maps, tiles, geocoding services) from the major map / GIS providers, including (in order of preference): MapServ...
I am trying to experiment with expanding paint-like program adding custom features to it. Can you suggest a simple open source paint-like program written in C and using GTK+ library which I could expand? It should compile in Linux but also in Windows (using MinGW). Thanks. EDIT: I found this and it looks like something I was looking fo...
I've just got this idea that there is a need for a forked version of Firefox that would provide right out of the box tools for web development. Like FireBug, YSlow, FireCookie, LiveHTTPHeaders, etc. Maybe the fork should only include those extensions or take a further step and implement them in existing chrome. The reason I'm thinking ...
How many of you tried to sell ASP.net to client or boss but go up against the wall of free OSS stacks(PHP, RoR...etc.)? Nothing wrong with OSS or ASP.net. I'm interesting in how to overcome selling ASP.net solution against OSS. ...
Anyone know or use an open source MPG to FLV converter that I would be able to use programatically? Preferably .NET . If you know any .NET commercial ones also then I would be grateful of those links too. Cheers, Andrew ...
Some time ago, reading this entry I found a nice image and a pointer to a better book entitled "Thinking Forth". To my surprise, the LaTeX sources of the book were ready to download, with pearls like: %% There's no bold typewriter in Computer Modern. %% Emulate with printing several times, slightly moving \newdimen\poormove \poormove0....
I am in the process of trying to graphically represent all of our server racks. So when we receive a new server we can decide where this should be put and where a specific servers currently resides. Are there any existing software packages that stores this kind of data already? I'd prefer open source ones if there are any but anything w...
Does anybody know if some kind of study has been made to find out which design patterns are used in open source software? That would be interesting because it would provide a source of real-life examples of patterns implementation and it would give an idea about which patterns are the most frequently used. ...
I am considering making my closed source free D&D character generator redblade open source. What should I focus on to make my open source projects prosper? To define success; When my now closed source project survives, with a nice community of users and contributors. ...
Because my time is limited I can usually only focus on one or two of my hobby projects, while the others sit there wasting away. I am looking for a solution that would allow me to divide my time better. is open sourcing where I take the role of guiding the project realistic, or are there better solutions? In my case, one project has a ...
Hello everyone, I want to setup a web site like Youtube to host some internal videos. I want to know whether there are any open source and .Net based projects to easy use/setup? I want to host the video by myself other than any 3rd party services for copyright reasons. :-) thanks in advance, George ...