Using Alfresco Community in production?
Anyone out there using the community (not enterprise subscription) version of Alfresco in production? Anyone with an enterprise subscription have any comments on doing so? ...
open-source
How do you solicit testers for an open source project?
In order to improve my open source project, I need testers. I have created my project independently, so up to now I have been the sole coder and tester. I have tested the thing to death, but as we all know it is dangerous as a developer to test your own code. I'm looking for ideas on how I can get some other eyes to exercise it. To c...
what is the best way to hire a consultant to help with an open source project?
I develop an open source Ruby On Rails project as a part of my job. However priorities at my work shifted and the project is now postponed for about a month. I know that that there are people who would like it to be finished sooner I would want to keep it going and willing to find money to pay for it's furhter development. I would prefe...
Are there any open source projects using DDD (Domain Driven Design)?
I'm trying to understand the concepts behind DDD, but I find it hard to understand just by reading books as they tend to discuss the topic in a rather abstract way. I would like to see some good implementations of DDD in code, preferably in C#. Are there any good examples of projects practicing DDD in the open source world? ...
Are there any good free .Net network libraries? (FTP, SFTP, SSH, etc.)
I'm a bit surprised I haven't found a good open source library for performing common network tasks. There are a few very good commercial libraries, but they're too expensive to use on an open source project. Anyone know of any? ...
What are the best Open Source tools for developing Flash applications? What are the best places to start learning?
As far as tools go, I am aware of haXe, MTASC, and swfmill. Can you offer any success or horror stories related to any of them? Are there any others that I should be investigating? With respect to learning, the Adobe Developer Connection seems to contain decent reference materials, but the tutorials all assume that the reader is using...
Editing a text buffer...
Ok, this is a bit of a cheeky question. I want to build a simple text editor (using my own text mode screen handling). I just want a good example of data structures that can be used to represent the text buffer, and some simple examples of char/text insertion/deletion. I can handle all the rest of the code myself (file i/o, console i/o e...
What are the open source code search engines you know about?
I know of google code search http://www.google.com/codesearch and koders http://www.koders.com/ . These two sites help me find usage of some of the libraries, where official documentation of the libraries would go only so far. If you know of some other tools/tips for using these search tools/other tips for finding library usage examples,...
What opensource projects do you support, or what keeps you from supporting projects?
I often feel like I should be contributing more to certain projects as I depend on them daily, but often feel I would mostly be getting in the way. Do you have any projects that you are not a main developer but do submit patches to? Any stumbling blocks keeping you from lending a hand? ...
New open source project ideas?
I am thinking of either joining in an open source project or come up with a own open source project. Currently i did some brainstorming on my own. And i thinking of doing some projects like Online recruitment website similar to jorbb.com An offline mode discussion forum akin like the golden days of the ‘IRC’ era, which builds upon the ...
Open-source fractal maps
I'm interested in creating a game that uses fractal maps for more realistic geography. However, the only fractal map programs I have found are Windows-only, for example Fractal Mapper. Needless to say, they are also not open-sourced. Are there any open-sourced fractal map creators available, preferably in Python or C/C++? Ideally I woul...
Good Ruby or Python OpenSource projects that need help?
Anyone know any good Ruby or Python OpenSource projects that are in need of some help at the junior level? I seen this link: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/38881/how-to-find-opensource-projects-looking-for-help but I am looking for some opinion. ...
Best open-source, cross-platform, compiled, GUI alternative to Visual Basic?
Hi Guys I'm about to write a little GUI app that will sit in the system tray, doing a little FTP and ODBC. I'd like to develop in Linux, if possible. What would you recommend? Thanks a bunch! ...
How would you migrate a multi-site ClearCase/ClearQuest environment to all Open Source?
I work in an multi-site environment that's currently using Rational ClearCase for source control and Rational ClearQuest for issue tracking (I accept your condolences ahead of time). As a rough estimate I would say this is supporting 200 engineers. How would you effectively migrate this SCM methodology to a comparative, all Open Source...
Best way to find open-source project partners for non-software tasks
Many of us probably have interesting hobby/free-time software project ideas that could benefit from non-software experience that we might not have ourselves, like art, graphic design, music, and so on. How do you find project partners that have artistic skills to augment a software project? These people probably aren't visiting SourceF...
What are the best ways to publicize an open-source project?
Say you've got an open source API that you want to share with the world. What are the best ways of doing that? Since it's open source, paying for publicity isn't an option. What are some well-known websites that accept articles written by third-parties? Are there things like Tucows for open source? How do you learn about the latest ...
subversion diff including new files
I have some local changes to an open source project which uses Subversion as its source control. (I do not have commit access on the original project repository.) My change adds a file, but this file is not included in the output of "svn diff". (It may be worth noting that the new file is a binary, not plain text.) How can I make a p...
Open Source C++ to C# compiler/converter
Even if it requires manual input. Is there any good-enough option available? ...
Is there a php library for email address validation?
I need to validate the email address of my users. Unfortunately, making a validator that comforms to standards is hard Here is an example of a regex expression that tries to comform to standard Are there any PHP library (preferably, open-source) that validates email address? ...
What are the most relevant OSS projects for .NET?
Not a popularity contest, but if you were to elect some in some categories, what would be the names? Here are a few suggested categories. The only criteria I’d insist on would be: needs to be fully OSS, not a one-man show, have some people involved, have source available and with a well-know open source license (hopefully with no dist...