I am trying to learn better design techniques, partly read the GoF book on design patterns, and I am looking forward to understanding these concepts better. Everyone has told me that open source projects are beneficial in trying to learn these patterns. My question is, how can I get UML/other design diagrams from these projects? (I don’t see them anywhere in the code repository, if you do, paste a link). Thanks
Category Archives: Open Source
How do Open source developers make money?
I have been curious for some time. People who develop Open Source Software don’t charge for those programs. Now even Google is providing some Open Source Software… My question is … how? What is the incentive? If its just volunteer work for the betterment of the world, I would be very happy and proud of the trajectory humanity is starting to follow.
Get Involved with Open Source For America
Here is a good way to get involved with open source. We need this to help reduce government spending.
www.opensourceforamerica.org
Am I allowed to develop open source software if I am working as a developer within a company?
If I am a developer in a company that makes accounting software, can I write open source accounting software? Can I write any open source software if I am employed as a commercial developer?
How do open source developers stay afloat?
Ubuntu, Firefox, how do these admirable open source operations stay in the black?
Google Chrome Tour – Open Source Browser Features
Here, as promised, I talk about the features inside google chrome. I was going to do a “first impressions” video but some people have already done this, so here is a tour of the open source browser available in beta for Windows. Kind of a review. www.google.com
What are the advantages from a software developer's standpoint of making open source software?
I am new to the tech industry (I am in the legal department) and am wondering from a practical standpoint why a software developer would develop open source software. Any thoughts?
Open Source Questions and Answers
This is a good open discussion about open source and what it means.
live.pirillo.com – John Perez is a college Freshman who is doing an argumentative paper on Open-Source applications. He sent me a list of ten questions that I am going to answer in simple terms. Also, we’re using our GoToMeeting to allow you to follow along with everyone as they use Open-Source applications.
What Open Source ecommerce solution offers best design templates?
I am looking for an open source ecommerce solution that has available, ideally free, design templates.
I have looked at Magento, OSCommerce, Digistore, WP commerce and Zencart and most have limited themes available.
Can anyone provide a reco? Also, if they can point me to a couple of examples of themes as well, that would be awesome.
How do I work with "open-source" programs?
i want to download and use KWORD as a word processor instead of MS Office because my trial expired for that, but i dont understand how to download KWORD. I read that its an open-source program and all i find to download for it are source files with extensions like .tar.bz and .tar.gz/.tar.gz2 and its really confusing. i just want to use Kword, i dont want to configure it or anything! can someone please explain this to me?