Using bounties for motivating people to improve open source projects may be a good approach, but the problem is that I did not find a bounty website that would be successful. I know about sites like: bountyup.com, opensourcexperts.com or bountysource.com but they do not look to be so active. Anyway, if you think that one of them is good...
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I always used to use Dreamweaver for web work, but now I work in Emacs, with Filezilla for non-text file uploads. What I miss from Dreamweaver is the easy synchronisation feature in its file manager. Is there any simple opensource software that would fill this gap for me? ...
I'm looking for some light reading. For those of you have far more Erlang experience than I, what are the best source files to read out on the web? If someone were going to learn correct Erlang/OTP principles only from reading raw source, what code should he start with and where should he go beyond that for a deep and advanced understand...
Hi, What I really like about Entity framework is its drag and drop way of making up the whole model layer of your application. You select the tables, it joins them and you're done. If you update the database scheda, right click -> update and you're done again. This seems to me miles ahead the competiting ORMs, like the mess of XML (n)H...
Hi, I'm starting to work on a Master's in CS right now though my undergrad is in another field. I have never worked on anything other than what I have written myself. I have never even really worked on a group project in college. So what I would like to do now is to start contributing to some open source project, both because it can help...
Hi All, I'm looking for well written open-source projects for BlackBerry which I could use as RI samples. I've downloaded sources of Wordpress client for BlackBerry, application is damn good. Any other apps? ...
Hi, Time ago I started to develop a project and now I would like to make it open source. I am not familiar with open source contribution so I would really appreciate if anyone of you could suggest any good source (book or web tutorial) where I could learn how to setup a repository and arrange everything neccesary in order to make possib...
I am using an open source eCommerce application and will soon push the application (including some modifications of my own) to production, i.e. the internet. Given that the code and data structures are freely available online, what are the security considerations/best practices when deploying such a piece of software? ...
The usual question being asked is: "I am cool and I want to provide my skills for an opensource project. Where do I find it?" Example: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1188982/what-is-the-best-way-to-find-a-open-source-project-to-volunteer-for-closed However, I found no trace of the opposite question. Suppose I have a project plan, b...
The JEE Web Application we are currently working on requires a simple forum like feature set. Is there any Java based Forum software that we can embed into the existing Web App (java based). A minimalistic feature set should suffice. ...
I've been tasked to help organize a web component to an art auction being held to benefit a family in need of assistance to overcome a sudden and tragic onslaught of medical bills. I'm capable in Rails and with relatively complex configurations of Drupal, so long as it doesn't require custom module development. Can anyone offer sugges...
Can use extJS for an business application for free of cost? ...
Does anyone know of a reference that explains the different open-source licenses in easily understandable, non-legalese terms? Specifically I'm looking for information about what it means to me when I'd like to use and redistribute some (open-source) library with my own products, e.g. something like this: a library distributed under l...
This is a question for those people who have developed a SharePoint solution and made it available for public consumption, such as: an open source product downloadable from your blog or a CodePlex site a product you have developed for sale an offering provided by you working for a consultancy company What were the main lessons learne...
I'm looking for meeting trackers using Django or RoR. Do you know anything on this subject? ...
Hi, All, My company developed an enterprise data processing software framework. To drive adoption, we are thinking about putting the software under GPL so people can try it for free and maybe buy the commercial version of it. My question is that since GPL is viral, do companies actually find it permissable to use GPL'ed software libr...
I'm interested in finding a codebase for creating a portal where contractors can bid on projects. This would be similar to the website elance.com or rentacoder.com or getafreelancer.com. Do you know of any open source projects out there or even paid software as a starting point? Thank you very much! ...
I am trying to learn BOO and think the best way to go about do it is to write some code :) I have searched high and low to find some OSS project in BOO, to which I can contribute. But it looks like the only type on software written in BOO are frameworks (developer oriented) and not end user oriented. Do you know of any open source BOO...
I was wondering if there is a high-quality, (with open source software) listing of projects like the apache software foundation. How about one that groups projects into domains, i.e. web frameworks, messaging, etc? ( I was looking for something to help pick open-source technologies for a particular problem when developing projects from...