I know, I know, its sounds silly, but it seems that there are no opensource robust .NET libraries out there for parsing Wikitext to HTML. Anybody know of a stable.robust .net Wikitext to HTML parser (i.e. codeplex projects that are still in beta mode do not count) ...
Let's say I want to develop a public website and make it open source. Can an open source license demand that derivative work keep a link to the original site in a prominent way? On the one hand this shouldn't look like a problem, as it seems similar to the widespreaad "leave credits clause in source code". On the other hand, source cod...
Has anyone tried Solace yet? http://opensource.plurk.com/Solace/ "Solace is a fully open-sourced multilingual support and knowledge exchange platform written in Python." Just wanted to know your experience. Are there any other such platforms available in open source? ...
Does anyone know of an article, I think in an Interior Design magazine or Wired, from August, that talked about the writer taking various classes online via open source education? The class was filmed and it lets you and I attend classrooms like MIT and other higher level schools. I went to a three tiered college ;) ...
Many people suggest to develop web applications in open source technologies. And one of the reason is the cost involved in hosting and the licensing of software. How costly can it be to build and deploy an application in asp.net mvc compared to any other open source technology? ...
If I have a open source software library covered by LGPL, can I use it in a closed source commercial application? ...
Hi guys. When working with open source project (like wordpress, drupal, joomla) i always find in the php pages a syntax like (this is an example from drupal): <?php if ($linked_site_logo or $linked_site_name): ?> <?php if ($title): ?> <div class="logo-site-name"><strong> <?php if ($linked_site_logo): ?><span id="logo"><?php...
I installed Msys Git and TortoiseGIT x64. Whenever I try to use the Get Clone command I am getting the error: "Msys Git Install Path Error". The wierd thing is that I when I set it all up, it worked once and then stopped. Now I have uninstalled and reinstalled both programs multiple times and I can not get it to work again. If this...
BE AWARE! Creating spyware, computer viruses and similar nasties can be illegal where you live and is considered extremely unethical by almost everyone. Still, I need to ask this to raise awareness about how easy it is to create one. I am asking this after the W32/Induc-A was introduced to this world by someone who came up with a nasty w...
In this question I've called the Delphi runtime source code "open source", simply because it's open. Others disagree with this because Delphi itself is a commercial product. According to Wikipedia, open source must comply to a set of rules. I've done a quick scan in the Delphi license but can't find a clear note about it's licensing sta...
Facing a need for a single CMS we can use for rapid deployment of customized CMS solutions, I am wondering if anyone can share any constructive feedback, experiences, pros and cons of this, seemingly powerful, piece of software. The whole story/marketing pitch sounds solid, and from a quick glance at the CMS itself things seem to be put...
What are the rights of contributors to open source projects? I'm not talking about the project owners or main developers, but about devs who have contributed significant, if clearly minority, parts of code, or who have consistently handed in patches and fixes. What are their rights to the project? What happens if, say, in a GPL project...
I have been trying to learn a cross platform language with a fast learning curve, and so it seemed obvious Python was the logical choice. I've never programmed before but I have been reading on pragmatic programming and agile development for quite some time. The question comes, "What is the single best choice to create a desktop softwa...
Are there any open source applications that provide a set of features similar to that of Amazon EC2 or Rackspace Cloud? Basically, I want a tool that I can install on one or more servers that works with a virtual machine monitor like Xen and lets me create, destroy, and clone virtual machines on the fly using some sort of API. ...
We have a Makefile which runs on a Windows 2003 machine and we are using mingw32-make for it. Since the Makefile has many include paths, it exceeds the buffer size of 8K that the cmd can handle [Ref - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/830473/EN-US/due to which the compilation results in "input line too long" issue. I wanted to know the fo...
Is there a reason not to use wordpress and develop your own blogging system? Same goes with Durpal and our own CMS. I am wondering since my marketing women disagrees with me that we should develop our own in house solutions because there are better solutions. She also says that we might even loose time and money on it since it is our ...
Today I had a bad surprise learning about some implications of the GPL license, mainly that I couldn't use it as freely as I thought. Now I know. What else should I know, and more widely, what should every developer know about legal things like that? You can separate employees, freelancers, open source projects contributors (etc.) o...
i know nothing about medical records but im sure there's great opportunity in it now. im planning to either find software that manages records or build my own. if i do build my own, can someone recommend a platform to use? i prefer vb.net. is there anything better for this? if you do not recommend me to build my own medical records k...
I have a source of python program which doesn't have any documentation or comments. I did tried twice to understand it but most of the times I am losing my track, because there are many files. What should be the steps to understand that program fully and quickly. ...
I find the regular expression toolkit tool in Komodo 4.1 pretty handy. Trouble is you have to dish out $300 for Komodo to use it. I'd love the same functionality in a stand alone tool... any suggestions? ...