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I am starting a a new web development project and I am tired of coding login systems. This is the kind of thing that must have been done dozens of times before. I really want to use someone else's code, because it is easier than rolling my own, and it will likely be better. I prefer open source for all the usual reasons, but mostly I want the ability to change it if I don't like something and bugfixes are easier than designing a whole thing.
I just need a login system, something that manages the username/password stuff and user registration. I don't need a whole CMS.
I am already looking at openid.net, but What open source login systems have you worked with? What other login systems have you heard of?
OpenID works really well. Given the recent wave of adoptions, I think OpenID is the best bet. It is cross-platform and has libraries for all the major development platforms (php, python, perl, ruby, .net, java, c++). I have implemented it for DotNetNuke and found it was relatively painless.
OpenID is definitely the best solution and there are plennty of open source libraries for all kinds of languages out there. Hava look at openidenabled.com.
I don't know what technologies (language & platforms) you prefer or have as requirements, but we have implemented CAS at my workplace and it has worked pretty well.
CAS itself is implemented in Java, but as the frontpage says, it has client libraries and integrations to numerous other technologies and pltaforms.
I wound up going with mod_auth_openid. It is super simple and prevents unneeded complication at other levels. but the code is not perfect, and I may have to adjust it later.
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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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I use Microsoft’s Visual Studio, and find the IntelliSense code auto completion feature very useful.
Are there any alternative open source IDEs that offer a similarly useful feature? How do they compare?
I would think that an IDE that did not offer some completion capabilities would have low market acceptance.
In the Java world, Eclipse has code completion.
Eclipse does quite a good job for Java development. Actually, it does a very good job.
PHP and Python plug-ins are available too. Probably other languages as well - you didn't mention any language in particular.
Edit: According to people more experienced than myself, Eclipse can be extended to provide "VERY VERY" good support for C and C++, too.
There are many other IDEs that are open source, and most (if not all) of them feature some kind of auto completion.
Here's a link to Wikipedia's "Comparison of IDEs", which might help.
You can also probably just search Stack Overflow for "Best IDE for x development" (x being the language you work with), and you'll find many options, all of them likely to have auto-completion.
One little "plug" for my favorite: Eclipse has much more than just auto-completion. If you're developing Java, it really opens your eyes to what kinds of things an IDE can do to help you out (compiling as you write and underlining errors, giving you a one-click way to make the IDE try and fix the problem for you, which it often does, etc...).
I think you are refering to .NET IDEs as you mentioned Visual Studio.
SharpDevelop is an .NET development software that indeed offer code completion. By the way, they use a full feature open-source text editor for that called ICSharpCode.TextEditor. I extended this text editor last year to support code-completion for database queries and it was very easy.
Scintilla is what you are looking for. It is a drop in replacement for an edit control. It has auto-complete capabilities as well as a host of other goodies. It is designed for C++ though, so it may not be an option, as you didn't specify a language.
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I'm developing a user-generated content site.
Note it's not a blogging system, forum, wiki or any of those shrink wrapped things. It'll have it's own specific forms and content niche, so I'd like the power to tweak everything basically.
The method of authenicating users will likely be 3rd-party ie open id, facebook, twitter, etc. So the system would need to allow me to hook into another api for this purpose.
Anyone know a CMS built for user generated content like this?
I'm confused... first you mention you're a developing a CMS then later you ask what premade solution works?
The closes you can get is drupal, well, even for pre-made system there is always something to "modify". Although I think James forgot to mention, Drupal has quite a steep learning curve and very long handbook so prepare yourself to take it slow and practice.
Also, it would be nice to know what programming language are you writing the web application? So we can provide more suggestions under that category.
Have you seen Agility CMS? It has a UGC module that allows you to build custom content types for your user submissions and then allows you to hook the logins in with Facebook Connect or other provider.
It's based in ASP.NET
www.agilitycms.com
I happen to be with the company, so I can answer any questions you have :)
You've basically eliminated every CMS under the sun by insisting that no pre-made system could possibly handle the types of content you want...
But even so, I can still suggest two systems that might be configurable enough to do whatever it is that you need.
The first is Drupal. It's a CMS, written in PHP. It has a very very configurable and extendable system of content types (check out the Content Creation Kit), and has a huge range of pre-written modules and plugins (even the CCK has its own plugins).
Because of its flexibility, Drupal powers a huge range of sites - everything from single-author blogs, through community forums, up to http://whitehouse.gov. The Drupal site has a case studies page which lists many different types of sites built on Drupal.
If Drupal isn't flexible enough for you, you probably need to stop thinking about a CMS and start thinking about a Web Framework - Wikipedia has a comparison table to help you find one in your preferred language. Personally, I've only used Django; but Ruby on Rails and Grails are also popular.
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I'm in the process of setting up a new website which would greatly benefit from having user-forums.
Since I already have user accounts, and profile details, stored away it seems that I'd benefit from choosing an open-source forum package which I could modify so that logins were tested against my existing database.
Right now all my site is Perl-based, and looking around I don't see many great Perl forums - the only obvious one I could find which is featureful is yabb - but that is written to authenticate against flat files and to be frank the code is nasty.
If I need to use a PHP solution then so be it, but first are there any simple forums that are written in perl that you'd suggest? I'd expect to have different forum-groups and nominate particular users as moderators. More than that I don't need, just basic threading and an attractive appearance.
Really simple forums are often really insecure forums. If you're determined to use perl, a major web forum doesn't come to mind, and if your competent in security I'd say roll your own. You could even release it to the open source community to help people like you. I know there are several great PHP ones out there that aren't so insecure an rather well developed.
I seem to remember that Drupal had a reasonable fit as a module.
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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