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my company is very LAMP based as of now, and my management had decided to send a hardware guy and a developer to this MLG workshop. From what I check online it's mostly MS trying to bundle up a whole lot of their stuff and try to sell it to us to solve our problems.
Plus the fact that most of what we use now are pretty much open source tech, LAMP, purchased 3rd party libraries.
So I feel this is more of a management thingy rather that what a developer should attend. Have any you guys attended this? Or is this is waste of time as far as a developer need is. If it's not then I would probably talk to my team lead who's more managerial like than me to attend :P
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Go there yourself. If you send managers there, MS could succeed in selling them stuff, and then you would be forced to use it.
... I'm confused why any of you would bother attending this when you're an Open Source LAMP shop. Is a switch being considered??
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People say practicing and keeping up to date with the latest technologies makes you a good developer, but what are some lesser known practices you all can suggest for someone currently doing a Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering and wants to stand out in their Master's application abroad?
I've started writing technical articles on Medium, finding open source contributions (which I rarely find for beginner level and any suggestions would be appreciated) and doing coding challenges online. Is there anything else I should be focusing on?
you've got plenty of time. keep learning technologies you're interested in, do projects and develop your skills along the way I'd say. Participate in competitions if you can. Open source contribution is a pretty good step
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I am involved in a project which is meant to eventually become open-source and have a code contributor community. Is there any "right" way of doing this and what should/can I expect?
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There's a pretty good book on this topic, Producing Open Source Software by Karl Fogel, which is available for free online or in dead tree form if you prefer to read it that way. It would be hard to expand much on it in a single answer. Every project will, of course, be different, so I'd recommend reading that book, and then asking more specific questions about your particular project; answers will depend on the language and platform you use, how active an open source community there already is in your area, what your business model is, and many other factors.
I would recommand using Github or Google Project Hosting (subversion/mercurial), and of course use social media network to promote the project helps too.
You can start something like this - http://wxwidgets.org/develop/
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You can see lots of briliant ideas in Open source projects. How authors found these ideas whey they don't exist yet?
Should I learn software dynamics, history and trends(Nothing new under the sun?) for that?
I don't want to start another github project called "API to xyz". What should I do??
Scratch an itch. Find something that you feel is a problem or annoying and write some code to solve that problem. Chances are you aren't the only person who is affected by that particular problem.
I believe a lot of software projects, open source or not, start as someone identifying a demand and working to supply it.
Think you're not satisfied with wherever photo management apps you found. Starting (or forking an existing one) with your needs in mind is an option.
What kind of software you would like to use but can find one that suits you? If yours needs are more or less supplied by already existing applications, why not working on improving one you like most?
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I'm considering trying to get more granular analytics for my sites than the free plan on my current provider, Clicky, provides.
Piwik looks like a strong contender in the analytics space (and I'm surprised I haven't heard about it before) but I want to be sure I'm not throwing the baby out with the bathwater by swapping to it.
Does anyone have any experience with this software and - in particular - are there any people out there who've tried customising the code or developing their own plugin?
To add to ghommey's response: we're also using Piwik right now and it fits the bill for our purposes. Separating IP ranges isn't really a concern for us as we use separate development and deployment servers.
As for customizing it, I've written a couple of Piwik plugins, one of which served to enable SSO for our (non-PHP) project. Writing the code itself has been relatively straightforward; however their authentication cookies violate the HTTP cookie RFCs (RFC2109 and RFC2068) in that they use illegal characters so there might be also other dragons in places.
AS of the latest release (q1 2010) filtering IPs is possible.
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Most succesful , and large open source projects seem to follow the Benevolent Dictator style organization. But I was wondering if there are any success stories with agile development in Open source. When refering to Open source I mean large net-community driven development, not established teams doing Open source under the same roof.
I think this is based on a misunderstanding. If you have a look at the Agile Manifesto, most open-source projects are "agile".
Few if any open source projects follow the exact practices of XP or SCRUM (etc), but then the environment is different.
I haven't really looked at the code, but I know the "Fitnesse" project uses pretty strict Agile development practices. In this case Bob Martin might be sort of a benevolent dictator who oversees the code, but they're using a lot of Agile practices like TDD, etc.
I'm not sure if they're using SCRUM specifically though.
http://fitnesse.org/