What exactly does the word patch mean when refering to 'submitting a patch'? I've seen this used a lot, especially in the open source world. What what does it mean and what exactly is involved in submitting a patch? ...
Does anyone have any suggestions of large open source projects with high quality code that would be good to study. ...
How is AWT implemented for Solaris? ie: What native libraries, if any, is it dependent on. ...
I use log4net in just about every code project. I was wondering what other generally useful code projects are available? ...
I wish to start a new open source project. What internet resources are there for gathering support and feedback on the project? ...
I'm thinking about releasing some of my PHP work as open source using one of the popular open-source licenses out there. I'd like to build a community around it and let contributors other than myself help grow the codebase. For someone who has never released anything as open source before, what are some important things to consider when...
I need to generate random numbers in the range 1 - 10000 continuously with out duplication. Any recommendations? Description: we are building a new version for our application, which maintains records in Sqlite DB. in the last version of our application, we did not had unique key for each record. But now with new upgraded version, we n...
After delving into the world of opensource I have found implementation is emphasised over design. Version control allows for a project to branch off in many directions, which projects may do; this suggests lack of consensus or direction amongst the participants. What software or websites are useful for collaborative design? ...
For internal development team I'm looking for a bug tracker. Important requirements are: Free (must have) WAR/EAR-deployable (must have; support team prefers to have all apps deployed same way) Nice UI (nice to have) UPDATE Since I wrote this, Atlassian has introduced a $10 (ten, not ten thousand!) version of JIRA for 10 developers...
Java process control is notoriously bad - primarily due to inadequate support by the Java VM/JDK classes (e.g. java.lang.Process). I am wondering, are there any good open source libraries out there that are reliable. The requirements would be: OSS Start/Stop processes Manage STDIN and STDOUT cross platform (at least Linux, Windows, S...
It was suggested to me by the SO community to get into an open source project to get myself out there. Id like to find one that is preferably a small project (file size/project size). I figure getting into something that is small will help me get into something that wont take long to understand and start contributing. I tried the big op...
I have a Zimbra installation and I need to programmaticaly update contacts in it. It seems that its REST interface is only working to add new contacts, but I need to update existing ones. Is there a way, tool or something, open-source, to do that ? ...
I am implementing a project on sourceforge. I want to know if any of you have used the tracker tool in sourceforge project hosting site. How does it compare to trac/bugzilla? In case I want/have to use trac, do I have to host it myself? Or can I use some other online hosting? ...
I have heard of desktop applications whose code has been open-sourced, but are there any websites whose code has been open-sourced? I don't think I have heard of any. If there are aren't any, are there any reasons why? This will have the advantage of not having to wait for the web development team to include a new feature. Also, this wo...
I'm looking for some open source software projects that I can reference to get more depth in my knowledge of programming jQuery. Can you please recommend projects that make heavy use of the jQuery library. ...
I'm currently a student (Applied Information Technology) and we do most of our programming in C# and Java. I was wondering how can I as a developer, make money with open source. I know there is the story of give support, or provide services, but I'm not a sysadmin and I don't like sysadmin work. Actually I would love to get my hands on s...
There is a standard two-pass algorithm mentioned in RFC 1942: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1942.txt however I haven't seen any good real-world implementations. Anyone know of any? I haven't been able to find anything useful in the Mozilla or WebKit code bases, but I am not entirely sure where to look. I guess this might actually be a deep...
I have seen continuations in Jetty 6.0 that addresses scaling for comet/reverse-ajax applications. Are there any other libraries/frameworks to be used with Tomcat 5.5? ...
I'm looking for open source iPhone applications. There are many sample applications around, but not many "complete" applications. Any ideas? ...
Hi, I am looking for some direction on finding a good open source project to work on. I am experienced in Java and PHP and am currently learning C, however, I don't know if I am comfortable enough in it yet to contribute anything. I tried looking at mediawiki but there wasn't really anything to do as it is such a big project with so man...