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Feed generator for PHP, allowing åäö and images

Hi, I'm new to feeds. I want to create feeds, so first, should I use rss 1, 2 or atom, whatever is best/standard? Second, do you know any easy to understand tutorials or code-examples? Any other good to know for feeds is more than welcome. I'm using php and mysql. Thanks in advance. /Johan ...

Open source GPS apps?

Are there any full featured GPS applications available with source for the iPhone, preferably that use Open Street Map to get data? None of the current offerings work very well with Voiceover on the iPhone, but it'd be a lot easier to modify an existing app to work with Voiceover then write one from scratch. ...

Generate a pdf thumbnail (open source/free)

Looking at other posts for this could not find an adequate solution that for my needs. Trying to just get the first page of a pdf document as a thumbnail. This is to be run as a server application so would not want to write out a pdf document to file to then call a third application that reads the pdf to generate the image on disk. doc...

How should I copyright and license my free software?

I'm all new to the open source free software thing, but any way I'm going into it pretty well (I guess!!). Now the thing is: in the way to distribute my program, I'll have to distribute my source code, so it will be a (.gz) with an installer for sure, or maybe a (.deb). My questions are: (I know this is a silly one, but I'm new here)...

Which licence should I use?

Say that I have made some software (which has both library form and can be used by end-user too). Now before releasing I was thinking under which license can I release it. I have the following concerns that I can think of (any more concerns can be added): Open source I should retain the complete credit as an author, though extenders ma...

online math/latex editor/engine?

Hi all, I was just wondering whether there are any good open source online math editor? I couldn't find anything searching on google. Thanks a lot! ...

"I am not proud of my code" excuse for not open sourcing an application

I have asked a few developers who produced software they no longer maintain or let die, why they don't open source the software and let other developers take it forward and enhance it. Or at least not let it disappear. Most of the excuses were about the quality of the code. They don't want to open source because they are ashamed of what...

Making PvPGN do more

Hopefully some of you are aware of PvPGN: I have set up a server which stores a player's profile/rank etc. But I want to do something weird with it: Make it output a log file: [Date/Time] Player A beats Player B [Date/Time] Player C beats Player B . . . etc If the problem is too narrow, may I ask a vaguer question. If you have an op...

Moving away from MS SQL Server to open source RDBMS

So I'm an MSSQL guy and I have been for a while because it's what I've always used in my workplaces. So when I create a new project I'm usually inclined to just grab a copy of SQL Express and start working from there. However, I've been asked to work on a new project but for various reasons, we can't use SQL Express edition and the lice...

Can anyone recommend a decent DSP/speech library in C++?

Google returns too much results, although SPUC caught my attention. Is there a standard recommended library like OpenCV for vision? The necessary features would be: Free Open Source filter design (Butterworth, Chebyshev, etc) FFT if possible, some speech processing features, like MFCC computation, although that's secondary, as I could ...

Distributing source files with an open source app

I have written an open source (GPL) application for Linux and OSX and now wish to distribute it. Is it normal to distribute the source code along with the binaries by default, or just provide a link to where it can be obtained? If I include the source files, where is the normal location for writing them on the users system for Linux an...

Is there a free web file manager like Plesk or cPanel in ASP.Net

I'm looking for a free, open-sourced web application written in C#/VB.Net on top of ASP.Net, which functions like Plesk or cPanel when it comes to (remote) file management. Something that simulates a regular FTP client, but actually displays web pages over HTTP, with the following functions: Create Folder Rename File/Folder Delete File...

Should I use a free hosted Source Control system as my personal backup system?

I am a one-computer shop, and increasingly I am thinking I need some redundancy for storing programs and other code. Should I use code.google.com, or sf.net, or codeplex.com or another online Source Control system for this? It wouldn't be to host a particular project, but more like a storage area for everything that isn't in a big pro...

What are the good open source implementations of Java Virtual Machine ?

I am trying to write my own JVM. Can you point me to some existing open source implementations. Thanks. ...

Where can I advertise an open source project?

I have started an open source project and was wondering how I would best go about inviting people to work on the project. SourceForge is great but didn't fit the needs of the project. Any ideas? ...

Is it legal to use OpenSource libraries in proprietary software?

I'm wondering is it legal to include OpenSource components as *.dll / *.so (with sources provided) in some proprietary software? It seems that everything's ok: source code is provided, not modified, author is mentioned in "About" box, and the free source is not compiled into: just dynamically linked. I know there's quite a lot of diffe...

Examples of Object-Oriented Projects Help Procedural Programmers

Please help me identify some small to medium sized open source projects that embody object oriented design (preferably in C++ or Java). I would like to use these projects to demonstrate how real world problems (as opposed to contrived text book examples) can be solved with an object oriented design. I want to be able to present a plaus...

Is the Safari Web Browser an Open Source Project?

I'm interested in doing some development against the Safari browser but I'm not sure if it's an open source project or not? I know webkit is open source but that doesn't mean the browser is. I've emailed apple but they haven't been very responsive so I'm wondering if anyone on stackoverflow has any idea? ...

does a Yahoogroups api exist?

Do we have a yahoogroups api? I have a yahoo group and I want that whenever my RSS feeds are updated, a message should be automatically posted to the group with the link to the post. Is that possible? ...

Alternatives to MS Visual Studio .NET

I've been working mostly with MS Visual Studio .NET tools and technologies, but started to wonder out of curiosity if there are alternatives to it, especially open source ones, since it seems like for every payed products there are free open source alternatives. ...