What's your favorite Open Source library or application?

[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...

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[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:

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

[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)

[Lost User]

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

[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).

Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder

[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.

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

[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

[Paul Conrad]

Josh Smith wrote:

big fan of my WPF.JoshSmith library

Yes, that is a very nice library :-D

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[Paul Conrad]

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

[Lost User]

boooooooooost :)

[Paul Conrad]

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