Which free database would you use for a relatively small datawarehouse system? Are there any 'special' databases e.g. multidimensional databases freely available? Which of the free relational databases is best suited for the job? By datawarehouse system I mean a system that will receive some inserts, few updates, next to no deletes an...
What are some of the most feasible or recommended ways for getting companies/commercial investors involved in an open source project? ...
Does anyone know of a good .NET port of the OGNL library here? It looks like I could use something like this and the only one I have found so far is on SourceForge here and hasn't been updated since 2005. ...
One thing that I keep hearing in reference to ASP.NET and MSFT technologies is that they cost money to use. Often when they are being compared to open source languages someone will mention that one factor in favor of open source is that it's free (to an extent). My question is, when does ASP.NET actually cost money to use in terms of u...
While raknet seems fairly interesting and really appealing from a feature-point of view, its licensing terms seem to be possibly troublesome for GPL'ed projects that may be leveraged commercially, something which is explicitly forbidden by the terms of the creative commons license. While there's also opentnl, it doesn't seem to be as a...
Having witnessed in various open source projects, in which I have been involved, several more or less significant totally anonymous contributions, I am wondering what could be the possible rationale behind such anonymous contributions? Occasionally, there are contributors who quite obviously prefer to remain completely anonymous - i.e. ...
I maintain a coding library for .NET/Mono called SixPack. It's a general purpose class library based on good architectural principles, and is currently being used in a number of websites. We think that code quality is pretty good, and we strive to improve every day. Although the code, is pretty well tested on real-world projects, we kee...
I have already tried zoomcall pro which is pretty good but it is not free. I am using my digital camera connected to a tv tuner card for the video input.Can someone suggest some user-friendly and free video conferencing tools? The video should be available in full screen as well. ...
If you would think about participating in the opensource - java, where you would look at? what would you choose? I've tried to participate to one project which need to sign a contribution agreement, they haven't responded to me and I cannot participate even though I think I knew about one bug and I could improve a component at least I ...
Which database would you use for an Open Source Project? I am looking for something that has little or no setup required by the end-user. Update: Database size will be relatively small (less than 100,000 records). Application will be written in C#. ...
In my job I make heavy use of a couple of open source projects and we often contribute back to them. A manager I had when I first started at the company said it was okay for us to contribute work we had done on company time back to the projects and I have been working under this assumption ever since. I see a couple of advantages to co...
For a small startup, what are the benefits and risks of going open source? As an example, suppose I want to create an "RSS to Email" application (this is just an example, please don't comment on the feasibility of this business) to start a company. If I don't have a large team, I would favor open sourcing it. This would help obtain suppo...
I've been giving a talk recently on a plethora of Open Source (some are borderline open-source, I'll admit) debugging tools and the audiences have been making great additions to my list. I'd like to gather the knowledge (and give credit) to the oft-brilliant StackOverflow crowd on this same question. There are no WebService/Java/.Net/H...
I know how to find open source projects. I know how to find them. What I don't know how to do is ask for a list of things to do. Every dev mailing list I have been on has been full of actual developers. I never see any newer programmers present. Most open source projects do not seem new programmer friendly at all. How would someone who...
I am using PHP. I need to send a fax of a particular file from my website. This needs to work for any number in the world. My searches so far have recommended using SOAP. Is it not possible to send a fax like an email? Is it not possible to send a fax without a paid service? I have seen the below link, and it refers to the soapclien...
There's some code on CodeProject that's already OSS under the CodeProject license. I've contacted the author several times on his blog, but he's not responding to any request for putting the code on CodePlex (or any email at all). Since it's OSS anyway, I thought I'd do it without his permission (and ofcourse give him all the credit). ...
I'm looking for some weblog software to use/extend, but all the ones I've looked at so far are terribly written - attempting to work with them is far too effortful and depressing. I'm looking for something that is well architectured and easy to change - modular code, distinct Model-View-Controller layers, sensible data structure, and so...
There are a few various open source projects that I'm not particularly happy with, for example, I feel that various aspects of sound on Linux is simply appalling when compared to Windows. I know this is because sound card manufacturers make their hardware for Windows, and it's probably their fault that support is so bad. But I'm sure we ...
Before rolling my own RSS parser, is there a really good open-source parser already written for C#? ...
I would like to use the JSON-framework ObjC library, which is licensed under BSD license, in my iPhone application. The thing is, I'm not sure what does the BSD license require me to do. The text of the license states that: Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the follo...