open-source

Exemplary open-source C# / WPF apps

I'm looking for a high-quality open-source C# / WPF app to dissect and learn from. I have about 5 years of C# and WinForms and almost zero WPF experience. I'm not terribly fussed about the functionality of the app; the WPF paradigm seems markedly different from Winforms and I want to look at an example of how it "should" be done. Thanks,...

Amazon S3 Integration

Hello, I am trying to integrate S3 with one of my content management systems. The idea is that I want to have document control features. The system is quite unique in that it handles thousands of sites, then each site can have any number of contributors or authors who have permission to upload documents and files to the document contro...

Good open-source neural network Python library?

I'm looking for a good (and, if possible, simple) open-source Python library to do neural network computations. It should be able to deal with multiple-layer networks and backpropagation learning. Speed of implementation does not really matter for me. Does anyone have suggestion on what I can use? Thanks ...

Profiling a C or C++ based application that never exits

Hi I have a small doubt regarding profiling applications which never exit until we manually reboot the machine. I used tools like valgrind which talks about memory leaks or bloating of any application which exits after sometime. But is there any tool which can be used to tell about memory consumption, bloating, overhead created by t...

Can I include other open-source packages in the distribution of my own software?

Is it okay to include other open-source packages in my own software package? In particular, I want to distribute my software (using Apache 2.0 license), and I would like to include another package, which uses the same license (my software compiles and links against it). Also, I am using two boost libraries. Can I just include them in m...

How can I use Objective C outside of Apple i.e. open source Objective C?

I would like to start using Objective C for something projects, however I don't want to use any frameworks and libraries that are tied to Apple. What can I use to write portable code across Mac OS X, Linux, and maybe even Windows? EDIT: I was thinking of very fundamental libraries like the FoundationKit and all that. I want to use Obje...

What is the best Drupal Survey module

We're after a replacement for a DotNetNuke installation with a DynamicForms module by DataSprings. Currently the problems are mainly performance related, but the fact that DynamicForms uses Postbacks on ASP.Net all the time renders it also highly susceptible to slow server response time. We're after a Drupal module which would allow u...

OCR Application for Android

Hi I am a final year engineering student from India. Working on a project to develop an application to perform OCR on English Text on an Android mobile phone. I am hoping to use an existing open source OCR engine. like tesseract for example. Can anyone please help me? point me in the right direction? this is my first ever project. ...

Need help choosing an open source GIS

I need an open source GIS that allows one to view/zoom/click the maps using a web browser and should be java compliant (deployable on a java app server). Well, I have tried to structure the requirement in 'what-i-have' and 'what-i-need' lists: Inputs: Location: lat/long Data : Text to display zoom level: (assume there are about 5) Out...

What type of chart would you choose for this problem, and what charting library can provide it?

Suppose I have N segments, each one having a start and a end value, for example: [1,40],[40,80],[80,100],[90,110] I'd like to create a chart where I can display all of them, in such a way that I can see that the fourth segment overlaps the values of the third one. I'm new to charting, can you suggest which chart type I could use for...

Java EE online banking code example

Is there any open source Java EE application for online banking and processing that you guys are aware of? Say for example I want to implement the whole online banking stack, from front-end, middleware, and back-end. Has anybody open-sourced this before? ...

Open source CMS system on asp.net

Hello, We are in the process of building corporate website where they need basic web content search and document upload and search on the same. I would like to know if any open source CMS tool out there which will allow us to do that. Mojo protal - is soemthing i am looking at it. Please let us know feedback on the tool. We are looki...

How do I find the open source license that is right for my project?

I am about to host my first open source project. I will be hosting it on codeplex where I can choose between the follwing licenses: Apache License 2.0, Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL), Eclipse Public License (EPL), GNU General Public License (GPL) v2, GNU Library General Public License (LGPL), Microsoft P...

Am I required to redistribute the changes I made to a GPL application?

Am I legally obliged to redistribute the changes that I made to a GPL application? Can I redistribute it only internally in my company? ...

How do I go about starting an OSS project based on existing OSS projects?

I want to start an OSS project but rather than do it completely from scratch I'd like to combine other, existing, OSS projects and target a specific platform. In this case there is an LPGL and MS-PL OSS project and the platform is Silverlight. I have two pieces of software that I want to use the resulting library for. One is educational...

Cross platform installer for Qt

I'm trying to find a cross platform installer for small Qt applications. It looks like the most popular (powerful ?) is BitRock Install Builder, but as the installer will be used in a school (I'm a teacher), I'm looking for a free/open source solution. I'd like to generate an installer for a simple application on Windows, Mac and Linux...

Language recognition in Java

Hi all! Is there any language recognition open-source for Java? Found only for c/c++. UPD: I`m talking about human text language. Example: Input: My name is John. Output: English. Input: Ich heisse John. Output: German. Input: Меня зовут Джон. Output: Russian. ...

web2py and GNU GPL v2.0

web2py is listed under GNU GPL v2.0 so my question is: If I develop an application using web2py do I have to release it under GNU GPL v2.0? ...

How can I easily scroll a product list in flash?

Is there a way to have a flash control scroll through a number of images with descriptions without knowing Flash? Perhaps like LightBox but with nice scrolling. ...

Are there any open source C#-based non-blocking, event-based web server like Tornado?

I want to build a comet-based application and would like it to be able to sustain up to 1000 concurrent connections. As I understand, Tornado has the advantage of not spawning one thread per request thus allowing it to handle thousands of long poll requests easily. ...