Let's assume we have a program A that is shareware and closed source. Albeit it being the most popular of its kind, it suffers from a lack of updates and some annoying, yet long-outstanding bugs. This prompts developer M to start an open source clone B of said program A. To make switching from A to B as easy as possible, M is going to m...
I need to build/integrate a system that can support email interactions with users with a customizable workflow including attaching documents, digital signatures etc. Think about a "mortgage refinancing" workflow, where each customer has about 12 steps that are needed to complete the refinance, I need a tracking system where I can track ...
Using C#, preferably Asp.net MVC I want to implement a wiki solution which consists of a unique markup language and article display. However I also want to provide standard wiki features such as RSS, Versioning, ext. What existing wiki would you recommend me to base upon? ...
As Java is an open source: if we have developed good classes which may help anybody.. Can we add them to standard Java library? If yes: how? ...
As many of us do, I have lots of software ideas, a couple of really good ones, and not enough time to do everything. (I am a developer, but only one). I would like to open source some software and ideas in progress but also retain direction and vision of the project. Up until now I've only worked in non-free-as-in-beer software and it es...
For Perl, there is cpan.org, where I can lookup and reuse any previously built package in my own code. Is there a similar open source code repository for C#? Edit: Thanks all. I also just found code.google.com. ...
I have a google app engine project whose source code I want to put into some source control repository. Thought of putting it into code.google.com . When I tried, I was prompted to select a source code license. I am new to this. Can someone please tell me how to decide on which license to select? Mine is a very simple project and I am f...
A lot of open source libraries that aid in Android application development have sprung up with time. IMO looking at source code of good projects helps learn the system better, faster and not to mention reduces development time. Is there a recommended list of such projects or if not, can we build such a list? I think it will really be use...
I am looking for examples of open-source projects that have made use of different design-patters. One example that comes to my mind is use of Proxy Pattern in NHibernate Help me find more ...
I'm planning to build a community-driven website with voting functionality similar to StackOverflow (or Digg etc..). I really like SO's voting system where your points are deducted for voting down someone and so on. Anyway, is there any open-source module/component available that I can plug into my app directly without having to reinven...
I do work in computer forensics and am trying to move my codebase from C++ to Java. I need a good open source implementation of all the various filesystems in Java to help this effort. Does anyone know of such an implementation? ...
Does anyone know of an open source implementation of an ASP.NET ProfileProvider that stores user profile information in the file system? I would prefer to avoid writing my own if a decent implementation already exists - while the API doesn't look to complicated, I'd rather not re-invent the wheel (so to speak). Hopefully this doesn't m...
I am working on an ORM in PHP and would like to dual license it: One open source license for open source projects One commercial license for commercial projects However, I was approached by an organizer of a "coding fest" which wanted to use my project for an open source coding event. I am not sure if it would be smart to let other d...
Can anyone provide any assistance with building the Graffiti CMS (http://graffiticms.codeplex.com) source code to have a ready to deploy web site? When I download the source and do a Visual Studio build everything builds fine. When I look at the folder on disk of Graffiti.Web I see there are a lot of extra files that are not needed for ...
There're several online IDEs for PHP and some even for Python, but is there any open-source online IDE like IDEone that supports atleast the major languages (PHP, Python, Ruby etc..)? ...
I'm looking for an opensource lightweight CMS for those situations where you would like to be able to set up a web site with some editable content regions, but don’t want to have to install a full-blown CMS or try to hack a blogging system in order to do the job. Something similar to Perch or Cushy CMS, but free and opensource ofcourse. ...
What is the Boost licence? ...
Within my company's TFS server, I need to setup an open source project. That is, I have the following requirements from this Team Project: The main committers can work the usual way, check-out and check-in files like any other TFS project. Everyone else can check-out the files and edit stuff, but they can't check-in. It should be easy ...
How to setup a Linux/Unix machine for python development? Which Linux/Unix version should I use? What IDE should be used? What development plugins should I have? What code style should would be THE BEST? All above, a great development machine for open source (python developers) development? Can i ask for screenshot of some great persona...
Hi all gurus! I am facing a problem. I used the following hashmap to store some values HashMap<String, Object> hm = new HashMap<String, Object>(); The object is another HashMap (yeah, you can say HashMap of HashMap). String is to store book name, and Object is again another hashmap that is to store author name and number of authors....