I am python/django developer. As a part of improving my knowledge and felt like I need to "contribute" to the field of open-source, I started looking for django projects in code.google.com. There were many. I am not very sure which ones are popular and which needs help. Can you help me out in this direction, so that I instead of using ma...
Pre-warning: There are some other questions similar to this but don't quite answer the question (these include: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19314/alternatives-to-windows-workflow-foundation, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/932924/can-anyone-recommend-a-net-open-source-alternative-to-windows-workflow) We are developing a system...
What is the best way to read in a tab delimited file in C++ and store each line as a record? I have been looking for an open source library to help with this, but have been unsuccessful so it looks like I will have to write my own. ...
Say I am working on some application in my free time, with non-commercial purposes. Surfing around I find some sources from some developer that has created a parser for the type of data I am also working on. But his parser is way better than mine. I would like to copy it into my project, and modify it to suit my needs. It is licensed u...
Hi, I want to create my own IM and I'm searching an open-source IM APIs. What do you think is the best open-source IM APIs. And what good front end to use? Thanks. ...
I'm starting an open source Java project and I need a few bits of advice. Should I use an IDE such as Netbeans to create the UI (swing) or should I do it by hand. Is there an easy way to do GUI using the Eclipse IDE? What's a good way to do the file structure? workspace/PROJECT/? Like where should I place the main class? ...
The languages used in the licensing are very confusing, and also it is getting very time consuming to read salient features. Just need a license with which source code is open/re-distributable/fork-able (good if the parent project gets credit, non-monetary or monetary eg donations). But I shall be able to have control, put a stop list ...
I would like to be able to massage certain categories of news feeds to make their entries more consistent. For example, when a job seeker subscribes to two different job sites the feeds s/he gets will differ markedly. One would like to be able to perform lookups and other work in the news reader, process the incoming feed on the basis of...
Where can I find some best practices for writing open source Java code? I'm not looking for directions on how to write the code proper, but rather on distribution, packaging, documentation, and all the other aspects besides .java files. My goal is to take a module I've written and publish it as open source. Edit - I'm still missing dir...
How important it is that a Google search for the name will return no result? If the library is written in Java and a search for 'java libname' returns 10,000s results, does it mean you should try harder and find a name that's availble? ...
This is the first time I'm creating an open-source project, and I've decided (based on this question) to host it on Google Code. Now, I'm asked which of several open-source licenses I'd like to use. I'm not interested in digging into them to figure them out, so: Which one should I pick? ...
Greetings, I was wondering if anyone knows of any good wysiwyg editors for either platform? I'd like to use one in a project but am almost certain I will need to extend it due to some client requests. I don't mind if its on netbeans or eclipse [Edit] I'd like for the editor to show HTML. So I'm essentially looking for a poor mans v...
I built a GIS application around Twitter and now its getting some interest. But one of the requirements is that they don't want any outside dependencies. So I'll need to mimic Twitters functions. Anyone know of any open source Twitter projects? ...
I'm looking for a license that has the following requirements: is viral. your code must be open source. you must let the author know and credit the author. if you distribute and you use this source code you must use this license. even if you re-implement but you use the same ideas and concepts then you must also use this license. even ...
Hello SO Team: We are in the process of starting a new company website and the question was brought to use or not a Content Management Solution. What will be the factors to consider to be able to debate between this two options. Both of them have pros/cons, but I am sure that there has to be a few people out there that will have an ex...
I need to find an open source alternative to VSS where people will share things like Excel sheets,PPT etc. It will be used by extremely non technical people on windows, so I have ruled out SVN,CVS,GIT etc. I need simple checkin and checkout system for stuff like Excel sheets. Can people suggest something from open source?? ...
Hi all, I have created a website and want to test its perfomance and load test if 1000 users try to accesc it. I also have to know about the amount of memory it takes to store the sessions. Which is the best freeware tool I can use? ...
I'd like to learn CouchDB and wondered if there was a host provider that offered CouchDB services. If you have used one please detail your experiences. Update: I discovered thta CouchDB is available in Ubuntu on a VM slice. I am interested in anyone's experience with running the VM solution and accessing the data with .Net. Is a hyb...
There are so many types of open source testing tools: for performance, functionality, and security testing. My question is, which open source tool (for both web-based and client/server projects) is: Largely used for performance, functionality and security testing Easy to understand Easy to use Acceptable/accepted in interviews Easy to...
As many of you know, the System.IO namespace is abysmally designed. I would like a free library that wraps the file IO functionality in a sane way (read: doesn't require you passing strings all over the place). I remember reading some time ago that there is a small handful of these libraries already written (and the author was surprise...