If a company dumps its codebase online (i.e. on Google Project Hosting) then it is allowed to use and link with 3rd party GPL code. Of course management doesn't allow making the code public because they think that competitors would steal their code. However, it's my experience that huge company codebases are pretty useless for the unin...
Greetings, Anyone who is big into TDD and who uses .NET seems to eventually run into the sealed classes problem. Some classes in the .NET library are sealed which prevents you from extending them (and thus mocking them). To add insult to injury Microsoft does not provide interfaces for these classes. Work of all the classes have a t...
Hello, The other day I came across Jaiku, which is a well structured microblogging system open sourced by Google. It surprised me I had never heard about this, so I was wondering what other open source alternatives exist for mainstream websites? I am not asking about forums, eCommerce, wiki's, CMS's, etc, where the market leaders are...
Hello, I am beginning work on a relatively large web-based application with the potential for large throughput and storage of a large amount of data. My expertise lies in MS SQL Server but it is cost prohibitive for a startup project. Is there any alternative to SQL Server (standard) that can handle the same throughput, has similar f...
Hello, I am working on trying to install and customize the OSS version of WikiHow (built on Mediawiki.) I am having a devil of a time getting even the basic feature set to work. The code is available here.. http://www.wikihow.com/x/wikihow-source-code.tar.gz ...
Hi, i've always wanted to make some of our companies products open-source..but we have a lot of things in our source code that would make us vulnurable. How is this handled in most open source projects? For example, we use some custom web services to do actions to our database (Add accounts, delete accounts, ect). The source code woul...
Hi, I was just wondering if anyone knows of any free Open Source software wich demonstrates multitrack recording support? I was thinking of something in the lines of this: http://www.soft411.com/company/NCH-Software/MixPad-Audio-Mixer%5Fscreenshot.html I want to include multitrack support in my own software, for personal use and I don't...
Hi Stack! In our project we are looking for an OpenSource java implementation of the OASIS ebXml Registry 3.0 Specification (spec). It seems there is not a lot of OpenSource initiative for this standard, actually we only found freebXml Registry which is self-named Reference implementation of the specification. The last release (3.1) i...
Hello, As I understand it, the best practice for generating salts is to use some cryptic formula (or even magic constant) stored in your source code. I'm working on a project that we plan on releasing as open source, but the problem is that with the source comes the secret formula for generating salts, and therefore the ability to run ...
Are there any restrictions of using lgpl, gpl, bsd licensed software in a commercial venture if the tools/software are only used as part of internal processes and not integrated or incorporated into any software / product that is being sold. i.e. if we used open source media converter software to convert someones voicemail from .mov to ...
Okay, I have reached a sort of an impasse. In my open source project, a .NET-based Oracle database browser, I've implemented a bunch of refactoring tools. So far, so good. The one feature I was really hoping to implement was a big "Global Reformat" that would make the code (scripts, functions, procedures, packages, views, etc.) standard...
My client needs to have a banner management system installed to their site. They want the system to be able to manage banners based on time (i.e. a client purchases an ad for 3 months, the site needs to not display that ad after 3 months time even if we don't change any settings) It also needs to integrate into our website. We have the ...
I used to love using IntelliJ but my new company doesn't spend money on IDEs. Now with the release of IntelliJ Community Edition, the only obstacle I have is that my company uses Perforce. Does anyone know if there are Perforce plug-ins that work with the Community Edition? ...
For an university project on usability I'm looking for an open source project that is useful but hardly usable. My group would do a complete usability review and give recommendations over a period of approximately 3 months. Of course this is no purely altruistic idea and the best-case-scenario would be: Our recommendations get implemen...
While using Aptana and Eclipse for the first time in my programming life for PHP projects, I am wondering how these projects get funded. There is a lot of activity in the Eclipse community and the IDE itself is very good. I came across various Eclipse IDE sites and I am not able to decide which one is the official site of the Eclipse pro...
My employer is considering installing OpenOffice.org's suite of Office products instead of using Microsoft Office. I've written several advanced applications in Access and Excel, and I'm trying to figure out what will and will not be compatable with OpenOffice.org. Specifically, what do I need to do to have Calc (OpenOffice.org's ver...
hi, i am using tomcat server and i have added a rhino engine to able some scripting abilities on my users. the second phase is to provide some debug environment. i know rhino has a debug API but i could not find any documentation/code samples about how to work with it, and build a debugger around it any one knows? ...
I checked out the Mono source code, and searched all files for some of my favorite .NET classes with no results. I'm pretty lost and I want to know: In which language Mono is written? Where are, in all those folders, the source files with the equivalent .NET classes implementations? It's easier to build it in Windows or Linux? ...
Not something like Gitweb because you can only BROWSE and not actually check out/in files. I'm thinking of something like Visual SourceSafe, but web-based, and open-source, that you can host yourself. Trac might be closer to what I'm looking for, but I've heard bad things about it. Any other options? EDIT: I'm working on a PHP / MyS...
As a C# developer that uses MS SQL Server heavily I'd prefer to use what I know; however, for a small project the licensing costs are prohibitive and so I'm looking at using a free open source solution such as MySQL. Which of the free RDBMS solutions are the best in terms of stability, performance, features and ease of use for someone fa...