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What's your favorite Open Source library or application?

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  • M Marc Clifton

    Just curious. Coffee table discussion. Not intended to start a flame war. If you don't have one, that's fine too. Marc

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    Pete OHanlon
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    NUnit, The GIMP, ActiveRecord.

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

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    • M Marc Clifton

      Just curious. Coffee table discussion. Not intended to start a flame war. If you don't have one, that's fine too. Marc

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      Todd Smith
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      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

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      • M Marc Clifton

        Just curious. Coffee table discussion. Not intended to start a flame war. If you don't have one, that's fine too. Marc

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        El Corazon
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        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

        _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)

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        • M Marc Clifton

          Just curious. Coffee table discussion. Not intended to start a flame war. If you don't have one, that's fine too. Marc

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          Chris Losinger
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          JpegLib, zLib, LibPng, InnoSetup

          image processing toolkits | batch image processing | blogging

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          • E 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

            _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)

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            Lost User
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            El Corazon wrote:

            Qt

            is open source? :confused:

            Why is common sense not common? Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level where they are an expert. Sometimes it takes a lot of work to be lazy The people in the lounge said I should google for the answer to a programming question but I do not know what search engine to use

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              El Corazon wrote:

              Qt

              is open source? :confused:

              Why is common sense not common? Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level where they are an expert. Sometimes it takes a lot of work to be lazy The people in the lounge said I should google for the answer to a programming question but I do not know what search engine to use

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              El Corazon
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              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).

              _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)

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              • E 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).

                _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)

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                Lost User
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                I didn't know that. Thanks!

                Why is common sense not common? Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level where they are an expert. Sometimes it takes a lot of work to be lazy The people in the lounge said I should google for the answer to a programming question but I do not know what search engine to use

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                • T 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

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                  Chris Austin
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                  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

                  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

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                  • M Marc Clifton

                    Just curious. Coffee table discussion. Not intended to start a flame war. If you don't have one, that's fine too. Marc

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                    Chris Austin
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                    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

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                    • M Marc Clifton

                      Just curious. Coffee table discussion. Not intended to start a flame war. If you don't have one, that's fine too. Marc

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

                      "A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"

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                      • M Marc Clifton

                        Just curious. Coffee table discussion. Not intended to start a flame war. If you don't have one, that's fine too. Marc

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

                        Rocky <>< Latest Code Blog Post: www.TheWPFDirectory.com site launched! Latest Tech Blog Post: You got to see this - Seadragon and Photosynth!

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                        • M Marc Clifton

                          Just curious. Coffee table discussion. Not intended to start a flame war. If you don't have one, that's fine too. Marc

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                          Mike Dimmick
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                          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).

                          Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder

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                          • M Marc Clifton

                            Just curious. Coffee table discussion. Not intended to start a flame war. If you don't have one, that's fine too. Marc

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

                            "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon

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                            • R Rama Krishna Vavilala

                              Application: Eclipse (for Java development). The more Java development (in my free time ofcourse) I do more I like Eclipse. Library: jQuery/Prototype (all Ajax Libraries)

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                              David Stone
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                              Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:

                              jQuery

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

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                              • M Marc Clifton

                                Just curious. Coffee table discussion. Not intended to start a flame war. If you don't have one, that's fine too. Marc

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                                David Stone
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                                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. :)

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                                • M Marc Clifton

                                  Just curious. Coffee table discussion. Not intended to start a flame war. If you don't have one, that's fine too. Marc

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


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                                  • M Marc Clifton

                                    Just curious. Coffee table discussion. Not intended to start a flame war. If you don't have one, that's fine too. Marc

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

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

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                                    • J Josh Smith

                                      Well, the only one I've ever really used is NUnit, so I guess that's the winner for me. Then again, I'm a big fan of my WPF.JoshSmith library. :)

                                      :josh: My WPF Blog[^] The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. - Michelangelo (1475-1564)

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                                      Paul Conrad
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                                      Josh Smith wrote:

                                      big fan of my WPF.JoshSmith library

                                      Yes, that is a very nice library :-D

                                      "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon

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                                      • R Rama Krishna Vavilala

                                        Application: Eclipse (for Java development). The more Java development (in my free time ofcourse) I do more I like Eclipse. Library: jQuery/Prototype (all Ajax Libraries)

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                                        Paul Conrad
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                                        Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:

                                        Eclipse

                                        Looked at it as a part of my thesis about a year and half ago. Not bad at all :)

                                        "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon

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                                        • J John M Drescher

                                          bacula. www.bacula.org[^]

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                                          Paul Conrad
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                                          That looks really cool and helpful. Been thinking of changing how I do back ups around here and at client's office :)

                                          "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon

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