Hi folks, I am currently looking for open-source pdf generation (and manipulation) library written in C. I found libHaru which seems to be quite nice. I actually do not need all the features of pdf and libHaru seems to be very low-level. Are there any good alternatives you could recommend and that are maybe a little bit more abstract? ...
I'd like to create a new and open sourced language. Since it's really rare to find programmers that actually dealt with compiler theory I need some advice. How would you make a person interested in your open source project? How do you bring him to a position where he wants to contribute? Is there a special place where I can find those pe...
Is there a robust OSS alternative to enterprise products like MSMQ? I had a little research and found: Apache ActiveMQ (wiki) RabbitMQ (homepage) However, I can't tell if they are robust enough for implementation. Please share your thoughts about these products, or add some to the list. ...
I want to check internal web pages, so I cannot use the W3C validation service directly. I managed to run the XHTML validator locally, however, I have some problems with the css-validator. I do not really want to setup Tomcat or Jigsaw in order to be able to run Java servlet, and the commandline option give me an error message Exception...
Is there a way to bind grizzly dynamic/transparent to my Java Applications (maybe by using spring)? Or is the IO handling part of the Web Container (eg. Glassfish)? ...
How can I ensure the records in a database can not be altered by other than the middle tier software (e.g. discourage the DBA of changing values)? I want to implement a simple multi-tier accounting program using open-source stack. The primary function of the application is to track money paid for one product. The main part of the data m...
Hi, I am starting to use Mono to develop applications in C# and C++. I wanted to ask you, how is Mono compiling the C++ code? is it using GCC? It is amazing to see that it has the STL containers... Also, can I use the Boost libraries and GSL libraries with Mono? Thanks in advance!!! ...
I have been contributing heavily to this open source project that aims to help out users of open source on the .NET platform by acting as a ruby gems or more importantly a gentto portage clone for .NET. There is a genuine need for this in .NET as the upgrade path for .NET oss is a painful journey fraught with danger. So morally this is...
When drawing the line between "relevant to programmers" and "plainly answerable", I typically lean toward the latter, but I'm really curious to hear what the community has to say about this. I have a feeling this should be CW (I've never created a CW topic), but I'll let someone with more SO experience make that call. Summary: Does "op...
Is there a third party django app for eaily importing rss items (specifically wordpress blog posts) in google-code? I've been searching for 20 minutes and can't pull anything up. Ideally the end result would be something like: def news(request): most_recent_post = ??? #get most recent rss post from http://feeds.feedburner.com/codi...
Hi there , I have a question that always bugged me in open source development. Why do we have : 10 different Browsers 20 different Instant Messenger 6 different IDE's for a singe language more than 15 distributions of Linux ..... wouldn't be nicer , when we have only 1-2 alternatives to the commercial products so open-sour...
Question If you have what you think is a great idea, how do you make your idea open source and ensure that it stays that way? How do you prevent your ideas from getting stolen and patented by someone else? Background I recently had an idea about a programming project that I think could be revolutionary. Being a young programmer I real...
I've got some open-source code which I'd like to translate into different programming language (it is a scientific library and it is the only open-source piece of code that does the thing, so I don't have much choice). Parts which I am interested in are GPL, LGPL and BSD (some code is in one, some in another). This would be a total rewr...
Hi, A year ago I was a big fan of .NET. I was developing custom applications on demand and it was not hard to understand how you can live by doing this kind of job - the customer asks you to make a custom application, you arrange the price, do the job and earn money. Now I hear more and more people talking about open source projects an...
I am currently evaluating using PyQt in a commercial application, and I was surprised to learn that the PyQt Commercial License does not permit you to expose any of the PyQt library in the application's script API. From the PyQt site: The right to distribute the required PyQt modules and QScintilla library with your applications so l...
I am aware of other solutions like System.Data.Sqlite or Firebird through Dblinq, but since nothing beats SQL Compact Edition (integration-wise) with Visual Studio, I would like to use it and to know if its license allows its usage in Open Source projects. Thanks. ...
I recently had the opportunity to shadow a developer for a day. (I'm currently working on my CS degree.) He showed me a tool for generating all possible execution paths through a C program, but I can't remember what it's called, nor have I had any success finding it. I believe it was an open source tool, but I'm not certain. ...
I used to use my Java programs to get free stock data (historical prices, charts, current prices ...) from Yahoo, but recently it stopped working, because Yahoo doesn't seem to welcome people systematically getting data that way. So I wonder if there is any good (reliable and kept up-to-date) open source Java packages that get free stock...
I would like to see how a large (>40 developers) project done with Python looks like: how the code looks like what folder structure they use what tools they use how they set up the collaboration environment what kind of documentation they provide It doesn't matter what type of software it is (server, client, application, web, ...) b...
Hi I'm looking for a Java open source shopping cart framework. I have had a look at KonaKart and OfBiz but I'm looking for other examples for comparison. I will need to have the search on the cart use Lucene to search through the PDFs so that keywords from the documents can return results. So I will need to be able to 'hook" into the ...