I am going to create my first open source project and I am trying to decide where to host it google code or codeplex. It seems to me codeplex has a better set of community features and google code has real svn and a version diff tool. What has been a deciding factor for where to host your project? ...
Are there any open source Document Management Systems built on .NET ? We've found a plenty of Java-based open source DMS but none on .NET. Also, please note that we do not look for (Web)Content Management solutions but Document Management. Thank you, Catalin ...
I've been working on an open source project on sourceforge a few months ago. One thing I noticed is that a well written summary could make a huge difference for the product. I literally saw traffic going to almost nothing when I made a poor change to project summary. One more thing I noticed is that not only summary has to be appealing,...
Hi I'm due to take up a project which is into data mining. Before I jump in I wanted to probe around for different data mining tools (preferably open source) which allows web based reporting. In my scenario the all the data would be provided to me, so I'm not supposed to crawl for it. In n nutshell, am looking for a tool which does - D...
kscope is a very nice gui tool on unix to analysis of sorce code i am using it for a while on my linux box. is there is any port of kscope on windows availbale? I know cygwin support kde env. but i am not able to compile kde on it. ...
Is there a Java Open source Library for parsing Excel 2007 Files? ...
C# simple open source desktop application to learn from? I'm trying to learn C#, but most of the times I found tutorials for non programmers which are pretty boring, or comparission with other lenguages. I tried to compile an application that look nice enough as to call my attention and simple enough ( at first glance ) as to be under...
Are there any reasonable complete open-source C# .NET blogging engines out there? Something a budding programmer may be able to extend? MVC Ideally. ...
I'm creating a starter kit that installs the compiled assemblies from an open-source project into the GAC to make it easier to reference the assemblies in the template. Since they're going in the GAC, they need to be signed. Do I need to password protect and secure the key file, or is it okay to leave it open and include the file in sou...
Hello, This question has been asked multiple times I know. From what I understand, broadly speaking, if I include a GPL module in my app, I have to also release my app's source code for free. Now if the module is a java app (which I have modified) and included in my own java app, and say I use it as an applet on my website, do I need t...
Is there a free (preferably public-domain or BSD-like license, but GPL will do) implementation of a multi-layer perceptron anywhere on the net? I have textbook examples but the licenses are too restrictive, and although I can just about follow the math in the Wikipedia articles I'm not confident enough of getting it right and it's hard ...
As one of the core contributors for an open-source framework, I'm frequently dazzled by the blurry line between "open source help" and consulting. I'd like to ask for your advice on the matter. Frequently, people using the framework would post 400+ lines of their code and expect me/others to dig through it to find an error; there are t...
I have put up the sources of my site on GitHub for easy maintenance. While the majority of the content is in a wordpress database, there are a few html files which contain some content. Since these files are in a open source repository, I was wondering if I can enforce a copyright on them. ...
Can any open source library be used in a commercial software or any specific licensed open source library? The open source library is used in the software and gets bundled in the package. No changes done in the open source code. ...
I've got a fairly simple open-source Java project I am starting. This process is new to me, I'm used to writing programs just for myself. What are some good practices to be aware of when releasing open-source projects in Java? Here are some things I can think of, can you suggest others? version control repository (what do you use to e...
I found an open source library that seems quite useful in my project. The library is however in alfa/beta state and is a bit immature. It happened that I had to manually apply a patch or make some changes completely on my own in order to get rid of some minor bugs in that lib. The question is: how can I store and manage my custom "branc...
I'm looking for open source projects for card games like Black Jack or Solitaire to get an idea on some GUI/Mac OSX desktop programming. I'm curious if anyone knows of any that're based on Objective-C/Cocoa that I can read/learn from? ...
The more web projects that I do, the more I realize that I'm not nearly as fast at trying to design how a website or web application will look and feel as I am getting the functional areas up and running. My question is, what are the best locations and/or free website templates that can be used by companies royalty free? I know that ...
Hello, I'm using Python/Django over MySQL. I'm currently working with MySQLdb that's under GNU GPL license. Is there a library with "similar" capabilities that's not under GPL-like licenses? To clarify: I don't know yet if I will want to distribute my source code or charge money for my application. What I do know is that I don't want...
I see that Pentaho wants to charge me for their software. How can I get to the underlying Open Source software for dashboards to see what it can do without having to deal with Pentaho marketing folks? ...