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I believe every system admin is used to open source by now. From Apache to Firefox or Linux, everyone uses it at least a little bit.
However, most open source developers are not good in marketing, so I know that there are hundreds of very good tools out...
Started by sucuri on
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by 70 people.
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Ghostscript: ....
Rdesktop: an open source RDP (terminal services) client that works surprisingly.
If it ain't broke ...
Is Open Source certified and complies with the Debian Free Software Guidelines.)
I love CFengine.
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Hi, I'm starting to work on a Master's in CS right now though my undergrad is in another field. I have never worked on anything other than what I have written myself. I have never even really worked on a group project in college. So what I would like ...
Started by Mike on
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by 10 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
It might take a while, but you will get meaningful contributions... .
An open-source project is not something you can learn in a day.
If it's open source, it's likely written by several people and organized.
As you want us to tell you.
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I am 22 Years of age and have been into computers since 13 and programming for the past 3 yrs. I am in the CSE program in my local university. I have been thinking non-stop about startup ideas and open-source contribution projects, but i find it very ...
Started by Babiker on
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by 6 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
You think you've out to be just another piece of software....
Start coding, everything seems to come together great, you're proud, you feel you have achieved, your little software program is always so much cooler then it turns out to be.
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Whats the best way to enter into a coding career? Do you need formal education and degrees or just a good portfolio? What programming languages are needed? Should you know more, or should you be specialized? Do you even have to attend college or a University...
Started by Navarr on
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Code from coding purely....
Code when you're working as a mechanic.
Finally there is the alternate path: Keep coding.
Contributing to open source projects (say on Source Forge) then you can start building your.
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My first experience with a game that got me interested in computers (still programming):
Leisure Suit Larry
After "Ken sent me", I was hooked.
Leisure Suit Larry creator's site: Al Lowe
Started by Kb on
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by 262 people.
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Actually....
And BASIC.
Lode Runner.
I got hooked when I attended an IBM Open House event in the late 70's, when I was about ten years...
Not so much.
For me it was Breakout.
The source code) and I never stopped hacking since then.
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I am not a software engineer. So I am curious about how a company to make sure the source code of its product is not leaked by its own developers/employees? What method do you use to trace once it's leaked?
Started by Liming Xu on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
However, the only way you can do, because if I can work on your source code, I can sneak it onto a thumb drive or email on with the 'If you don....
There is nothing to steal if it is all public anyway .
code open source .
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What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered?
Started by Thomas Bratt on
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I burst out laughing when, after the source code was released, I was looking through the code and saw this in the source file for handling doors, at the start of code in one file....
Nothing could ever move horizontally.
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Lately, I've been going through a pretty weird phase. I feel the need to write/rewrite all the tools I use ( text editors,IDE's,libraries/modules ) and I don't know why .
Even though this can be seen as a good thing ( because I learn alot of things in...
Started by Geo on
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Let others discuss the code (when I was a student); it got the point where I would examine the Java core source code waste too much....
Put whatever code you write in a website and make it open source.
To achieve.
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I am a student who has done a course in Haskell and I am currently doing object oriented programming using Java. Haskell was great and I did do really well and I am getting on fine with the Java.
But I feel that I need to learn more about the underlying...
Started by EdwardHart on
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by 9 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
Contribute....
At the most basic level you want Charles Petzold, Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software.
It's a good overview of how computers work (from a software perspective) from the ground up.
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I have the opportunity to give a formal presentation to my boss about anything that benefits the company. My idea is to adopt source control in my workplace. I have been using Mercurial to manage my own project at work, but the rest of the team does not...
Started by mhd on
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by 27 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
These are:
Branches
Without a source code repository from being a ....
Simple: If the code is not in source safe, it doesn't exist
Subversion is free and better but one of the biggest positives is skipped over.
Control world.
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