What's your favorite Open Source library or application?
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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
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El Corazon wrote:
Qt
is open source? :confused:
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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
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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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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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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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
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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Just curious. Coffee table discussion. Not intended to start a flame war. If you don't have one, that's fine too. Marc
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.
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BackOrifice; wonderfully useful tool, that...;)
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Thunderbird email client, SubText and DotNetNuke.. Those I use pretty much every day.
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Just curious. Coffee table discussion. Not intended to start a flame war. If you don't have one, that's fine too. Marc
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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Just curious. Coffee table discussion. Not intended to start a flame war. If you don't have one, that's fine too. Marc
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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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)
Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:
jQuery
Amen. :) We use jQuery in CPhog quite a bit now.
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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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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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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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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. :)
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Josh Smith wrote:
big fan of my WPF.JoshSmith library
Yes, that is a very nice library :-D
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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)
Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:
Eclipse
Looked at it as a part of my thesis about a year and half ago. Not bad at all :)
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bacula. www.bacula.org[^]
John
That looks really cool and helpful. Been thinking of changing how I do back ups around here and at client's office :)
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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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Just curious. Coffee table discussion. Not intended to start a flame war. If you don't have one, that's fine too. Marc
http://www.pyrorobotics.org/[^] :cool: I finially have the time to start diving in to the code. Lots of goodies in there.
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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
At this point we have used it for almost 4 years now under linux and we are so happy with it that we quit using Veritas Backup Executive 9 which we have several licenses for. The main reason for looking at open source software while having purchased licenses for a commercial product was that with the licenses we had we were limited in what we could backup and how we could perform the backups unless we shelled out for more licenses and options. As a result we were in a situation were we were not backing up all of our important data because we did not want to give any more money for software that we were not very happy with. With bacula all of these restrictions have been lifted, free technical support is significantly better but we do not have the fancy GUI to do backups (yet).
John
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At this point we have used it for almost 4 years now under linux and we are so happy with it that we quit using Veritas Backup Executive 9 which we have several licenses for. The main reason for looking at open source software while having purchased licenses for a commercial product was that with the licenses we had we were limited in what we could backup and how we could perform the backups unless we shelled out for more licenses and options. As a result we were in a situation were we were not backing up all of our important data because we did not want to give any more money for software that we were not very happy with. With bacula all of these restrictions have been lifted, free technical support is significantly better but we do not have the fancy GUI to do backups (yet).
John
Right now my backups consist of a bunch of old .bat files being called into action by using the Schedule Tasks tool in the Windows Control Panel. I did take a look at Veritas some 2-3 years ago, and it seemed good, but never really went with it due to budget.
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon