This is part observation, part question. First the observation: While everyone talks of modular programming, OOP, procedural done right, aspect oriented, design patterns, etc., several popular opensource PHP apps are plain script files with the structure being controlled by includes and requires. This looked stupid to me till I faced a ...
My apologies if this is too subjective of a question. I have a theory about wiki design; specifically, how a particular change to the model embodied by the wiki software would make the wiki revision process more closely resemble the open-source development process and thereby reap benefits that the current wiki model does not. I would ...
Surely they are fun at the inception, but then comes maintenance, bug fixing, support, etc. Major contributors to important open source projects are paid employees at Sun, IBM, etc. Ubuntu seems to be a major money black hole. So ... can open source really compete with commercial software? ...
Lets say person X posts some code on a public forum (totally public, even to guests), and they post it without an explicit 'license'. Person Y then comes along and decides to use that code in a proprietary application. Is that legal? What about using the code in an open source application? Is it only legal if they give attribution? Is...
Hi all, I'm in need of a two-way encryption solution for Ruby, such as Blowfish, Rijndael (AES) or other. The problem, however, is that I can't find an appropriate gem for it. I would like for the library to support several different encryption algorithms so I can compare the performance of each for optimal integration i my application....
Can you recommend a free, open source, drawing application, like Inkscape, but written in Java based on the Apache batik code library? ...
I'm curious to know what metrics open source project members track. Small projects may not bother with tracking any numbers, but I assume that active projects would track some numbers. There are two types of metrics I'm interested in: Internal development metrics - e.g. from the issue tracker or other development tools. External metric...
Today i did a checkout of some open-source projects just out of curiosity. So after a while i was looking at the code of OTTD (http://www.openttd.org/), i just didn't know where to start looking or how to understand the project. I know you cant get familiar with such big projects in one or two days, but how do you guys handle such things...
Assume I own some open source project with no license information. Furthermore, assume nobody has contributed publicly yet and so I own the project's source code and copyright. Say the source code is already hosted online. If I decide to give it an open source license by uploading the associated COPYING document to the repository and a...
How to turn pcm audio into text using some lib written entirely in the C\C++ programming language? So I have pcm file. I want to turn it into text. how to do it? (with speech recognizer lib of your choise (BTW i need it to work extreamly fast) So what do I need? Open Source Libs. Tutorials and blog articles on How to do/use it. ...
I am using SugarCRM Version 5.2.0k (Build 5837). I would like to be able to set a default home page (with dashlets I've created myself) that will be the same for all users, can anyone advice on best way to do this? Thanks in advance for your help ...
After learning the basic syntax, reading some non-trivial code is a fast way to learn a language. We can also learn how to design a library/software during reading others' code. I have following lists. A Chess program in OCaml by Tomek Czajka. Hal Daumé has written several machine learning libraries in Ocaml. Including decision tree...
I've used Yahoo Pipes for some prototyping, but I'm unwilling reluctant to use it in full production as we'll have no control over it uptime etc. Is there an (ideally open source) alternative that I can run on my own server? Or any application that can convert a pipe into PHP or Ruby? ...
Hi can you recommend an open source Delphi crypto library that works with Delphi 2006, Delphi 2009 & Delphi 2010 Algorithms need: DES, MD5, SHA-1 ...
hi, i am sorry but i had enough from MS Vi$$o as a software design application, i have been using it for ages and i find the user experience comparable to a Chinese torture (with out insulting the Chinese nation). we are just drowning Squares there is no reason for it to look so gray and complicated ... ;-) can anyone recommend me a ...
More specifically, a class library assembly. My initial thoughts: Have some designated administrators do all the assembly signing. But then when bug fixes and new versions are written, the binaries would ultimately depend on them being around (even if its just a small change for private reasons). The key could be publicly available. Bu...
I currently have a few closed-source applications that I have developed to learn a particular technology or experiment with a programming technique. As a result, I have some software that is useful to others and that I have made freely available, but in closed-source format. Some of the users of the software have asked if I would be wi...
I use Microsoft’s Visual Studio, and find the IntelliSense code auto completion feature very useful. Are there any alternative open source IDEs that offer a similarly useful feature? How do they compare? ...
How would you setup an code repository where you have a proprietary version and an open source version, say like Chrome and Chromium? With Git, would you use two branches or two repositories? How would you keep the "private" version up to date with the open source one? ...
I want to provide my application with simple licensing mechanism based on RSA algorithm. Are there any free RSA libraries? ...