Are there any good RTS game engines?
Are there any good, free, frame works for a RTS game? Could be as simple as Dune 2 or complicated as War Craft III. I have heard about Spring, loved TA, but feel it may have a steep learning curve. ...
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Is there a good blogging platform to use as a framework?
I'm writing a new product, and I've noticed that a lot of the features I want already exist in blogging platforms like wordpress. For example, comments and comment moderation, content editing, etc. Is there a good blogging system that is easy to use as a foundation for something else? Something with an API, extremely customizable, and h...
How Do I Setup Multiple Stores Using Magento Like Their Demo?
I'm playing with Magento and I figured out how to create multiple websites and stores and store views, but when I go back to the home page it certainly doesn't look as cool as the Magento Demo (http://www.magento-mall.com/). Are the tabs something they did in the HTML and the store domains are really masking to the ugly store URL? Examp...
Using OpenVPN Windows TAP driver into my own open-source project
Hi, I'm working on a free and open-source project (GPLv3) that basically creates a VPN. The project is meant to be portable (in terms of platform and architecture). On Linux and Mac OSX, I use the built-in system "tap/tun" device driver to create a virtual network interface and it works well. On Windows, I use the TAP driver from Open...
C# Open Source Projects with good architecture
Hello everyone.... I'm curious what are some good open source projects written in c# to learn about project architecture? ...
open source twitter?
Hello everyone, I want to add twitter like function to my site, like t.mysite.com. Any open source, stable and easy to setup/use twitter software? thanks in advance, George ...
Is there an open source alternative to SQL Data Dude for Oracle?
Is there an open source alternative to SQL Data Dude for Oracle? ...
Is It Possible to Make Close Sourced PHP Product?
I'm curious that whether all PHP product must be open sourced if it is to be deployed to other's web site. Since PHP code is executed by interpretation, if I have PHP product to be deployed on other's host, it seems no reason to prevent others view the source code. So, PHP product is destined to be open source, right? To be more precis...
Solution for distributing MANY simple network tasks?
I would like to create some sort of a distributed setup for running a ton of small/simple REST web queries in a production environment. For each 5-10 related queries which are executed from a node, I will generate a very small amount of derived data, which will need to be stored in a standard relational database (such as PostgreSQL). Wh...
Places to start for system programmer transitioning to web programming
So here's where I'm coming from: My background is in C#, C++, VB Script, PHP, JavaScript, PowerShell, T-SQL, HTML, XML, XSLT, CSS, and VB 6. I have some experience with python, and a brief introduction to Ruby On Rails. At work, we're transitioning to a web based UI in the next year or so. I would like to, if possible, learn more o...
What is a good open source job scheduler in Java?
Hi, In an application harvesting (a thousand) RSS feeds, I want to dynamically schedule the feed downloaders based on the following criteria: The speed at which content are generated - source which produce content at a higher rate need to be visited more often. After downloading a feed, its content is analyzed and based on the current...
How would I include open source library in my iPhone application?
I have found an existing open source library that I would like to include in my iPhone project (the unrar source code found here: http://www.rarlab.com/rar_add.htm ). I have compiled this source as a linked library on my Mac with "make lib" which creates the libunrar.so file just fine. These are the makefile settings for that target:...
Looking for substantial open source GWT/App-Engine project to use as reference
I'm working on GAE-J/GWT app, wherein a desktop app connects to the GAE-J component, and there is also a web-app component whose front-end is written in GWT, and the GAE-J backend supports both the desktop app and the web app. I have a good amount of experience with writing pure server code and desktop code, but not so much on the web-a...
Can GPL interface with MIT library
I inherited a GPL project which I'm trying to improve. I know of an MIT library that could really help me improve this project. I know its developer personally and I read his blog, and he's made it clear on several occasions that he likes MIT and Apache licenses. My questions: Do I have to tell him that I'm using his library in a GP...
open source business intelligence solutions
which open source business intelligence solution would you recommend? All I need is to build some cubes and let the end user play with dimensions, filter data, sort, etc, and once it's done being able to export it to excel... I'd like the solution to be as simple and easy on resources as possible, and also I'd like it to be as much ope...
Java apache commons library source license question
I want to use functionality from a certain method in apache commons StringUtils. I currently do not have the option of just using the library as one would normally do. I found the source for the method I need and my question is: am I free (legally) to use this code (just a method out of the library) or do I have to use the entire libra...
Reporting framework for extending definition & execution to the end users (ASP.Net)
Hello. My application is a product which will have reporting capabilities. The product, when in production, is expected to have several ad-hoc report defined by the end users. I am looking for a platform that can be tailored to harness the business entities and extend reporting capabilities (definition & execution) to the end user. Her...
Open source segmented interrupt architecture RTOS?
A segmented interrupt architecture RTOS can boast "zero interrupt latency" using clever partitioning of work between the interrupt handler and the scheduler. There are at least a couple proprietary closed source instances of this approach, e.g., AVIX and Quasarsoft- Q-Kernel. A related SO question asked about open source RTOS links, but...
JOpenDocument: Adding style to a paragraph
I'm new to JOpenDocument and the documentation is somewhat lacking. I know there has to be a way to assign a paragraph a style so that it can be bold, and things of that nature, but I can't figure out how. Here is my code, does anyone have any ideas? File outFile = new File("c:\\out.odt"); ODPackage p = new ODPac...
What are the key differences between MPL (Mozilla) and MIT licenses
I'm relatively familiar with the MIT license. What are the differences (and similarities) between it and the MPL (Mozilla Public License) when releasing a new project as MPL (vs. MIT) or when using an existing MPL in an MIT project. Other threads that I read about the MPL but don't help as they compare it to other licenses not the MI...