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I am currently working as a consultant but i found that i have not been doing coding for a very long time.
So i wonder if there are any other nice websites beside sourceforge.net which can allows me to do some coding.
Thanks
sourceforge.net - All sorts of open source software, from Linux to BSD to Windows.
codeplex.com - Mainly Microsoft technologies-focused. This is where you'll find more of the .NET open source stuff.
For general indexes to open source software, see freshmeat and Ohloh. The former is a classic index of open source software and the latter has statistics about the source code for each project, which might be handy if you want to judge how active a project is.
If you want to join easily, distributed revision control is nice. The big hosting sites for Mercurial (Bitbucket), Git (Github) and Bazaar (Launchpad) should give you plenty of projects to browse and, hopefully, contribute to :-)
OpenHatch (openhatch.org) is nifty (IMO) because:
The site provides a number of "bite size" bugs from Free Open Source Software (FOSS) projects.
There is a Map showing the registered users in your area, along with the langauges and projects they are involved in.
The site provides an email forwarding address with rotating "anti-spam salt" by which other contributors may reach out to contact you. (You may choose whether to use this, or provide an alternate means to contact you on the site.)
Also, there's Github and Google Code
Google Code.
IMO, much nicer than SourceForge.
How about Google Summer of Code?
If you're just looking for a small quick project, Clusterify.
Ohloh is an other good collection of open source projects.
It provide details, timeline and notes.
There's lots of under served open source sectors that you can give your extra time to.
You don't have to do what everyone else is doing, take for example, the loads of time wasting CMS projects out there, while there seems to be no proper OCR in Java, and Jira is a great issue tracking system, no doubt, but its not open source, Bugzilla sucks, don't say Mantis, and Eventum is written in PHP(I'm a Java fanatic)
The best source for open source projects is of course sourceforge.net, Google code, not so much.
We can not say that one website is better, it depends on the domain you work, so your best friend is well http://www.google.com with your keywords
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This may seem like an odd request, but as a computer science student, I'm always running into apps that make doing a development task easier than the way I was doing it before. Unfortunately, I tend to discover these apps long after doing things the hard way for far too long. I'm only on mac, but I figured I'd include both Mac and PC for future reference (if I ever have both systems).
For me, a student of C++ programming, I'm currently religiously using just a few pieces of software on Mac:
XCODE - IDE
Atom - Text Editing, HTML, and a few other things
Cyberduck - SFTP into my school's Linux system.
Terminal - (Haven't tried iTerm2 yet or any other Terminal
alternative)
Go2Shell - quick folder navigation for Terminal
What other utilitarian apps do you guys find particularly helpful for you as developers? Feel free to mention any software you may use to help your workflow.
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Also I didn't know what tag to use for this topic, so if the mods need to move this thread to a more appropriate area, that would be great.
Well, your list does not look bad at all ;)
Most developers will have a basic set of tools such as:
An IDE (Integrated development environment,e.g. phpStorm, Aptana,etc..) - where you write your code.
Various Compilers (e.g. C\CPP compiler for a C\CPP developer, or a LESS compiler for a web developer, whatever you use in your daily work) - to compile your raw code\markup into an executable\usable format.
A Debugger - to debug your code.
A Local development stack (e.g. LAMP, used mainly by web developers) - to execute your code and see how it works, debug, etc..
A Dependency management tool - optional: if you have a big project with many dependencies.
A Version control system (such as Git, SVN, etc..) - to maintain your project as a proper code repository.
An FTP client (if you upload files to a server)
That is generally what you need to write software\applications, anything in addition to that is considered helpful but you don't really need it.
There are some fancy tools for lazy people, those tools can save you some time but the huge disadvantage is when you start to rely on those tools and then you stop understanding how things actually are constructed and work - which will make the maintaining of your software a nightmare.
The best thing is to know when to use "helper" tools, but not many of them, use them only if you have to, and do not get to the situation where you rely on them - because then if they have a bug or a mysterious flaw, you will be dead in the water until the next hotfix or patch comes out.
Good luck !
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Is there any open source alternative to Documentum CMS. While doing the evaluation for this I came across Alfresco, Nuxeo and Apache Jackrabbit. I would like to know if I missed something and If there are any other products that I missed.
Thanks in advance.
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You pretty got the point.
Nuxeo is based on Open Source but you have to pay the license, and is pretty expensive (at this point, Documentum is better anyway.
Apache Jackrabbit, I personally never saw in action, so I don't have a clue. Apache is a strong Open Source mass of projects, so I think for a Java developer is a great point to start.
Alfresco, at last, is the best choice here, 'cuz you have Enterprise and Community versions, if you want to pay for support or note. Here, if you are/have Java developers in team, you can create a pretty nice web-app with some great tools like sharing content/workflow/full text indexing and so on.
I think it's the most complete system out there, and it really have great potential.
I work for a company that is making business with this product, and I have to say we're very happy about it.
So full disclosure - I work for Nuxeo. But I want to clear up a misconception: Nuxeo is fully open source, and does not charge for licenses. The code's on GitHub. There's only one version - no enterprise / community versions. We charge for a subscription to support, maintenance, and a customization tooling.
This is pretty much these ones, AFAIC I would go with Nuxeo
#Alch3mi5t Nuxeo is completely opensource and free (LGPL), even more than Afresco:
There is no difference between a Community and a Enterprise version, it's just the same. Customers who are paying have the same product than any other people.
What are they paying for ?
Nuxeo Studio, a online graphical tool to easily customize Nuxeo without having to edit xml nor having to write java code.
Support to get answers to questions
Hot fixes on a specific release can be easily installed from the admin center. (sources are available in github, if you are not a Nuxeo Customer, and you can rebuild these one with maven)
If you need to do more complex customization, here is where Java developers would be happy. Nuxeo has a
pluggable architecture with plugins and extension points, almost anything in nuxeo can be overridden in Nuxeo with extension points: UI, server and feature configuration, core configuration, document structures, rest services, backend DB, etc ... it's quite powerful.
There is a free and opensource plugin for eclipse to help java developers: Nuxeo IDE
don't hesitate to ask any questions on the irc channel: #nuxeo in freenode
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This may be off-topic, but I decided to ask it here anyway, because it's very related to programming.
I'm looking for a site which will host a free software project for free, offer SVN and Hg access, bug tracking &co, space for a blog...
Any tips?
Also, should this be community wiki?
Have a look at Kenai which is IMO very nice (especially if you like Jira) and offers Projects, User Profile, Code Hosting, Issue Tracking, Wiki, Forums, Email lists, Downloads, more....
Below a comparison with the "competition" (seems a bit inaccurate actually, Google Code does offer Hg):
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For more site and feature comparisons,
see the Wikipedia page Comparison of
open source software hosting
facilities.
Check it out.
google code?
Quotes from their website:
It provides a fast, reliable, and easy open source hosting service with the following features:
Instant project creation on any topic
Subversion and Mercurial code hosting with 2 gigabyte of storage space and download hosting support with 2 gigabytes of storage space
Integrated source code browsing and code review tools to make it easy to view code, review contributions, and maintain a high quality code base
An issue tracker and project wiki that are simple, yet flexible and powerful, and can adapt to any development process
Starring and update streams that make it easy to keep track of projects and developers that you care about
sounds exactly like your description.
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I've decided to have a look around for open source projects that need a hand and lend a bit of time to one or two. One question though, is there a site(s) that lists current open source projects that are looking for developers and is there anywhere I could for example filter open source projects by language/technology/etc.
What I'm after is a way of getting an overview of many open source projects so I can make a decision whether they interest me or not.
Ideas where to find such information?
The three major ones:
SourceForge
CodePlex
Google Code
While you're probably not interested in participating in it yourself, the Google Summer of Code has a list of projects that are participating. A project participating generally means that it wants more contributors, it has mentors who are willing to help new contributors, and it has an ideas list with tasks that are good for someone just getting started on the code base (though they are generally designed to be a full time, summer long project, they do range in scope).
Looking through this list can definitely help you find things to do more easily than trawling through every open source project available on SourceForge, Google Code, or GitHub (though GitHub is nice because you can so easily fork, hack away with as many patches and throwaway branches as you need, and then request that your code be merged in once its done).
Check out Freshmeat for an open source directory of sorts. Other than that, I'd recommend just browsing around the web on topics you are interested in to see what's out there.
I would recommend choosing a piece of software that you like and use, and finding a way to contribute to that. Specifically, fix an annoyance or bug that you have noticed. If you don't see any annoyances or bugs, look for the project's bug tracker. This way it's a project you're invested in, and you are already at least partially up to speed on how the code works from an end-user perspective.
Source Forge is a great place to start.
Check out CodePlex as well.
I like scanning through interesting projects on GitHub, forking them if I think they're interesting and if I feel I can contribute, go right ahead! I haven't contributed to anything yet, but it all seems very easy and inviting.
Well, I would just head over to Sourceforge, find a project that interests you and start going through their bug list to help fix stuff. Sourceforge can filter out the languages or topics you're not interested in.
The best: http://code.google.com/
and Sourceforge
Ohloh
is a great repository of repositories, indexing many projects.
Craigslist.com is a good place to contribute your skills too... I know that you wont find your open source projects at craigslist, but hey, someone could use your technical skills for free.... if you have time to spare why not let that someone benefit from it...
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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 would ensure that more eyes see the code, ensuring a lower bug count. Of course, hacking would be easy.
Pastebin: http://pastebin.com/
The wiki behind Wikipedia et al: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki
GrailsCrowd: http://grailscrowd.com/
Slashcode [slashdot engine]: http://www.slashcode.com/
The reason that not as many people do it is because it would be easy for someone to set up a complete clone of your website without making any useful changes. OK, that's strictly allowed with true 'open source' code, but it's not quite within the spirit of the thing (IMO) and if the site became even moderately popular there would be a lot of useless clones. The site would become essentially worthless.
Those are -websites- that are open source. There is a huge amount of web application software that is open source [some of it shitty]
WordPress
InkType
Joomla
osCommerce
ZenCart
Drupal
Check out reddit.com's source code here: http://code.reddit.com/. I do think there is a profit consideration when a site is built, for them to release their source code would allow copy-cat sites and dilute their market share.
PHP.net is open-source. Hell you can checkout a copy of their website if you want to.
Many answers have addressed the competitive aspect, but that really applies equally to all FOSS projects, web-based or not. The distinctive feature of web sites is that, by and large, the users of the software do not have access to the code in any form - source or binary - so the typical FOSS requirement that you make the source available to anyone who receives the binary becomes pretty much meaningless. I believe this to be the primary impediment to widespread use of FOSS licenses in conjunction with websites.
(There have been recent attempts to develop web-focused FOSS licenses which specifically address this issue, but none have really caught on yet.)
Isn't the code (slash) to slashdot open source?
Wikipedia/Mediawiki is open source on multiple levels. MediaWiki (the software which runs WikiPedia) is open source, and accepts contribumtions, and the content of WikiPedia is also open source and editable by everyone.
There's also LiveJournal (http://www.livejournal.com) which has been open source for years.
phpbb.org
django
joomla
dotnetnuke
SugarCRM
OSCommerce
DotNetNuke
Mambo
There's quite a bit of software that are open source.
All of the seaside-based systems on squeaksource.com