I've been learning C, and I'm looking for a (preferably very) simple open source project to get into. It will most likely involve more playing around and learning on my part than actual contribution, but it seems a great way to gain some experience and see how C is really used. Any ideas? ...
What's your favorite open source database design/modeling tool? I'm looking for one that supports several databases, specially Firebird SQL but can't find one on Google. Even if written in Java :D ...
Are there any libraries for Java that can generate unit tests or unit test skeletons for existing code? I'm looking for something similar to pythoscope. Ideally it would generate code that follows JUnit4 or TestNG conventions. It looks like Agitar does something like this, but I'm looking for something free. ...
As a followup to this question can anyone give me pointers to free/open-source report engines? I'd prefer something that I can use in C++ but I'm sure almost anything could be made to work with C++ given enough time and effort. I gather there's one in BIRT but are there others available? This would be part of the open source software s...
I use several open source tools in my day to day development - and they save me a lot of money. In the absense of donating any time to these projects I decided to donate some cash to a project once per year. If you were going to donate $100 which project would get your vote? ...
I've read a bit about Google's Mondrian, and I've seen Atlassian's Crucible demonstrated - I'm convinced that the tools have value. Are there open-source code review tools? It would be used on a proprietary codebase, so it can't be a public site or service (eg: Google Code's features include some of those of Crucible). We have release...
I need to customize an open-source project. The changes are for a specific organization and will not be useful to the public project. The code changes include disabling features not needed by the organization (affecting 5% of the code), customizing other features for the organization (affecting 20% of the code), and adding new custom fea...
Whats the easiest way, of telling if I can redistribute it in a piece of commercial software? In license agreements I often read the terms GPL, OpenSource, Freeware, Artistic License but have never got a definitive answer on what the differences are. ...
I read all the licenses, and frankly I am kindda baffled by the many choices available. I know some relax the limitation of the license so that open source stuff can be used in commercial application. But other than that why is there so many licenses out there? Is there any major difference between them. How do I go about choosing the ri...
I hatched as a software developer in a proprietary world dominated by large corporations with closed source software - it wasn't questioned. As my career grew, the Internet became more and more of a presence and I was exposed to more and more open source software. Looking back at most of the libraries, I am not talking about applicatio...
A couple of months ago I've coded a tiny tool that we needed at work for a specific task, and I've decided to share it on CodePlex. It's written in C# and honestly it's not big deal but since it's the first project I've ever built from scratch in that language and with the goal of opening it from the very beginning, one ends getting sort...
I've been working on two personal projects that I now posted on Launchpad with the idea to get some input from the broader community. How do I get people to actually run or least look at the code? Tips on what would make it easier for people to try out an opensource web app is also welcome. ...
I need to calculate averages, standard deviations, medians etc for a bunch of numerical data. Is there a good open source .NET library I can use? I have found NMath but it is not free and may be overkill for my needs. ...
Consider following steps: 0) Release open source Mock Program and Mock Plugin which communicate by certain interface (I), exchanging complex data structures, sharing memory and calling each other. Apply all-permissive license to it. 1) Release Plugin designed for working with any program in the way defined by interface (I). This plugin...
Question: What are some open source C# projects I can download that implement many best-practices and have a relatively high code quality? Please accompany your answer with some of the reasons you consider the code is of high quality. Suggestions so far: SharpDevelop NHibernate Boo Rhino Mocks Mono Paint.NET - Not Open Source ASP....
There are a lot of websites offering free hosting of opensource projects with bug tracker, version control, discussion boards, ...: Codeplex Sourceforge Codeproject Google Code ...? How would you administer and develop your own projects? When choosing one of those sites what benefits can you get from it? Is it even better to host it ...
Hi, Is there a open source or free suite that can integrate testcases, tests, bugs and possibly the fixes(source code) together. Maintaining the requirements in this system is not a necessity (though, it would be nice to enter a requirement id for each testcase in a custom field). We are a small organization and cannot afford something...
I've got a young nephew who aspires to grow up to be a game programmer and i'd like to introduce him to the world of open-source as well as get him a sweet gift. Anything like that out there? ...
When you move from analysis of the requirements through design, you go through a decomposition/workflow/dataflow/composition/etc process. I need tools to facilitate this process. The result of analysis & design would be an implementation design which I can happily document using UML. I cannot use UML for analysis & design: it is a...
Is there a viable open source Ruby on Rails content management system out there? I need a CMS with the ability to manage structured content, content relationships, classification (structured taxonomy and free tagging) and simple publishing workflow. I'd prefer the content ultimately be persisted as XML. Also content needs to be abst...