There are many instances in my work projects where I need to display the size of some collection in a sentence. For example, if the collection's size is 5, it will say "5 users". If it is size of 1 or 0, it will say "1 user" or "0 user". Right now, I'm doing it with if-else statement to determine whether to print the "s" or not, which is...
Is there a decent website or service out there where developers can propose a new idea for an open source project (regardless of language) and have the community vote it up / down, form teams, and do everything that precedes writing the first line of code? ...
Hi, I need a library to convert PDF to text or TIFF in C# - preferably open source under a permissive licence. Currently using xpdf but as I understand the GPL I can't compile it into a DLL and link to it without releasing the rest of my code under the GPL. Does such a library exist? If not, what is the best value tool which would suit ...
Hi, Can anyone please tell me which is the best Open Source Software should i go for ......if i have to build a Desktop GIS Application ....which involves Spatial Querying both feature based and attribute based..... Languages that i wud be using C# .Net any idea about MapWindowGIS and MapObjects Thanks in advance Please reply ...
We have stable spring based (spring 2.x) web application. We have a new requirement which is our data entry operators should be able to login to some kind of an admin module and simply change the text in the web pages, change the color etc. I have seen PHP based CMS’s that allows authorized user to change the content in WYSIWYG manner. ...
Hi! I'm just wondering if anyone else is using ZOOP (http://www.zoopframework.com)? If so, what version are you using, and what positive/negative experiences did you have? I'm using it for about a year now, and I'm somewhat dissatisfied. There never was any documentation, and the framework has been frozen since 2008. The framework itse...
I have a number of Rails apps hosted on GitHub. They are all currently private, and I often will deploy them from their GitHub repository. I'd like to be able to make some of them open source, just like the ones you can find on http://opensourcerails.com. My question is: How can I make these repositories public without giving away super...
Possible Duplicate: Finding an Open Source Project to work on I am C++ developer and I want to find a project that accept me as one of its developers. I am not an expert developer but I think I can do some help to a project in C++. Is there a forum or a web site that lists projects which want more developer? ...
I'm open sourcing my app, which was built in C# using Windows Forms. Are there any licensing issues I should be aware of? In particular, are there any open-source licenses that I'm prevented from using? ...
What is the preferred free open source project management and SCM tool combination for working on multiple java based projects? This must be something that has been answered on here before but i couldnt find a good one. Im working with a couple people on two different proof-of-concept web app projects and have been doing everything tog...
Hello, We have planned to fork Joomla! 1.5 with the name STRELIN. As Joomla is moving to 1.6, we would like to add new features without breaking the compatibility, with the new name Strelin. Of course that will be free and GPL. A simpler, better ACL (we are trying to make it simpler than Joomla 1.6 ACL) is the first one. Can there be a...
What are some open source ict4dev projects that have a real impact? I've heard of OpenMRS. What else is there? ...
For example, say that I want to make a program that solves linear equations. Say I find an open source program that does this and I decide to read it, study it, and generally tweak it to my liking and keeping around 70% of the code. If I give 100% undisputed attribution to the original author both in source code and my website (I'm no...
I'd like to license some code in a way that's less viral than GPL, but still copyleft. I can't and don't want to use GPL since I use some libraries which are basically open source, but incompatible with the GPL. I thought about using LGPL or MPL/CDDL. The problem with these is that they are trivial to circumvent. For one these licenses ...
Hi, I am trying to find the source code of pthread library. (I guess its a supposed to be a part of Linux source code) But somehow can't find any good website that has it. I like this website: http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v2.6.34.1/ where I usually find what I need. Somehow pthread source is not searchable. Anyway, I wanted to mention t...
The Australian Electoral Commission has free ESRI and MapInfo formate GIS layers of Australian electoral boundaries for download. I want to convert this data to a thumbnail polygon image using a free tool. ...
Hei I’m trying to learn Linq to SQL and wondering if somebody can suggest some demo/open source project based on Linq to SQL. Preferably full designed n–layer architecture, showing best practices. Thanks ...
Is anyone aware of a good open source document repository webcontrol for ASP.NET? I'd like to give users the ability to upload files, create folders, etc. in particular paths on the web server. I want a full user interface so just the WebDAV API or a partial solution like Uploadify is not enough. ...
So for example the youtube video ID from a youtube page, or a tweet ID from a twitter page, or a Facebook uid from a facebook profile... ...
Hi guys, Yeah I know that SQL Server has got free express editions(2005/2008) But what i want is a small simple opensource tool like Heidi Sql. What are my options? Regards, naveenj P.S: This is for my fellow Java developer who admonished me for entertaining the idea that he would install MS-SQL in his machine(lol) ...