What's your favorite Open Source library or application?

John M Drescher

That was my second choice for the application category.

John

QuiJohn

+1 for The GIMP. I use the Windows version at home and at work, and it's not without its annoying glitches, but I've gotten better and better at using it. I have zero training as a graphic artist, but feel like I can churn out some pretty cool stuff now. I never would have gotten into it with something I would have to pay for like Photoshop.

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Zoltan Balazs

Applications: Firefox, Thunderbird, PdfCreator Tools, libraries: NAnt, ZedGraph

Network integrated solutions A practical use of the MVC pattern

Pete OHanlon

NUnit, The GIMP, ActiveRecord.

Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.

Todd Smith

If I can only pick one, I'd have to go with Python. But there's sooo many others: MySQL, Apache, Zlib, Subversion, NAnt, CruiseControl, wiki(s), boost, LUA...

Todd Smith

El Corazon

Only one? Applications Nasa World Wind freemind for brainstorms (thus mentioned below). TrueCrypt for encripted volumes FreeCommander for dual-pane file browsing SyncBack for syncing up portable drives 3DEM for browsing 3D elevation data and sometimes imagery. Various subversion clients Libraries: OpenSceneGraph for 3D drawing Boost for misc. GDAL for geographic imagery/elevation Zlib Qt

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Chris Losinger

JpegLib, zLib, LibPng, InnoSetup

image processing toolkits | batch image processing | blogging

Lost User

El Corazon wrote:

Qt

is open source? :confused:

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El Corazon

Wes Aday wrote:

is open source?

yes, you can download the full source, and recompile under linux and windows using GNU compilers only. But your project must be open source, they simply offer an additional commercial license with commercial use allowed (non GNU).

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Lost User

I didn't know that. Thanks!

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Chris Austin

Same here, I’ve been coding in python off and on since 1999. Lately, I am working almost exclusively with stackess. -- modified at 16:32 Monday 30th July, 2007

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Chris Austin

Python: if I had to choose just one. There are dozens of tools and libs that I use one a daily basis that I'd be hard pressed to live without.

My Blog A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. - -Lazarus Long

Roger Wright

BackOrifice; wonderfully useful tool, that...;)

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Rocky Moore

Thunderbird email client, SubText and DotNetNuke.. Those I use pretty much every day.

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Mike Dimmick

OpenNETCF Smart Device Framework[^]. Basically a lot of the bits that Microsoft deleted from the .NET Compact Framework. Nothing that we couldn't have done ourselves, but someone else having already done it seriously helps. Warning: quality in some areas is variable. I recently had the less-than-great pleasure of working with their RAPI wrapper (RAPI - Remote API - is a set of functions implemented by ActiveSync and a Windows CE device to allow the desktop to manipulate a connected device) where some functions were just not implemented correctly (example: the file timestamps were always wrong because the FILETIME structure had not been interpreted in the correct order).

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Paul Conrad

Probably ArgoUML, off the top of my head. Subversion has been a favorite in the past. Haven't used it much lately, though.

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David Stone

Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:

jQuery

Amen. :) We use jQuery in CPhog quite a bit now.

David Stone

Firefox with Firebug and Greasemonkey is essential. For development stuff? CCNet and mbUnit rock. But I have to say that the open source application I most recently fell in love with was apt[^]. Being able to install/update/upgrade/remove anything with just a simple command is awesome. :)

Ray Cassick

It was NDoc before it seemed to die a terrible death. Have not looked at Sandcastle yet.

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Graham Shanks

Library: Boost[^] Applications: Doxygen[^], ToDoList (of course) and XSudokuWnd[^] for relaxation

Graham Never memorize what you can look up in books. Albert Einstein