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I have nearly finished a free spellchecker library for Windows Mobile, and there are a few great forums around (both for developers and end-users), such as XDA, where you can promote your creations for Windows Mobile.
However, I have been thinking that I'd like to make a version of my library available for Windows desktop developers as well. Once I have finished the same, I'd like to distribute and promote it to get feedback, bug reports, and suggestions.
Are there good developer forums for promoting and distributing applications or libraries in this way?
You might want to consider writing an introductory review of your own library, and publish it on sites such as codeguru.com or codeproject.com. You could also use blogs of popular sites such as ddj.com to promote your library.
On the other hand, one very simple thing to do would be to set up a sourceforge project for your library (if it's open source) and then use their facilities for all these purposes. Specifically, you can easily use freshmeat.net to make your library more widely known.
You will need a certain minimum infrastructure (forum/mailing list, issue tracker and possibly source code management) in order to provide a place for your users to easily monitor or possibly even participate actively in your project.
A simple homepage and yahoo list might very well suffice, though.
Also, looking into available spell checking libraries in general, you will probably want to highlight the major differences between your implementation/project and more established ones such as for example GNU aspell or hunspell.
So, do make sure to do some research in order to get to know related projects.
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I am working on a scraping project for a company. I used Python selenium, mechanize , BeautifulSoup4 etc. libraries and had been successful on putting data into MySQL database and generating reports they wanted.
But I am curious : why there is no standardization on structure of websites. Every site has a different name\id for username\password fields. I looked at Facebook and Google Login pages, even they have different naming for username\password fields. also, other elements are also named arbitrarily and placed anywhere.
One obvious reason I can see is that bots will eat up lot of bandwidth and websites are basically targeted to human users. Second reason may be because websites want to show advertisements.There may be other reasons too.
Would it not be better if websites don't have to provide API's and there would be a single framework of bot\scraper login. For example, Every website can have a scraper friendly version which is structured and named according to a standard specification which is universally agreed on. And also have a page, which shows help like feature for the scraper. To access this version of website, bot\scraper has to register itself.
This will open up a entirely different kind of internet to programmers. For example, someone can write a scraper that can monitor vulnerability and exploits listing websites, and automatically close the security holes on the users system. (For this those websites have to create a version which have such kind of data which can be directly applied. Like patches and where they should be applied)
And all this could be easily done by a average programmer. And on the dark side , one can write a Malware which can update itself with new attacking strategies.
I know it is possible to use Facebook or Google login using Open Authentication on other websites. But that is only a small thing in scraping.
My question boils down to, Why there is no such effort there out in the community? and If there is one, kindly refer me to it.
I searched over Stack overflow but could not find a similar. And I am not sure that this kind of question is proper for Stack overflow. If not, please refer me to the correct Stack exchange forum.
I will edit the question, if something there is not according to community criteria. But it's a genuine question.
EDIT: I got the answer thanks to #b.j.g . There is such an effort by W3C called Semantic Web.(Anyway I am sure Google will hijack whole internet one day and make it possible,within my lifetime)
EDIT: I think what you are looking for is The Semantic Web
You are assuming people want their data to be scraped. In actuality, the data people scrape is usually proprietary to the publisher, and when it is scraped... they lose exclusivity on the data.
I had trouble scraping yoga schedules in the past, and I concluded that the developers were conciously making it difficult to scrape so third parties couldn't easily use their data.
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We are using this server for almost a year now.
Last forum post seen in November, 2011.
Last server version released 28/03/12.
Just wondering if anyone knows whats happening inside the company?
Should we expect something or should we start looking for alternatives?
I did what you did not do: using email to ask the question to the people able to answer.
And they replied that:
the forum was closed because they could not cope with the amount of accounts created daily to publish junk
the next version will be the most important ever made for G-Wan, with new features like a caching reverse proxy and an elastic load-balancer as well as system replacements like a wait-free memory allocator.
With regard to such developments, a 3-month period without publishing releases sounds reasonable.
More reasonable than assuming that such an 'inactivity period' means that "the project is dead".
Would you say that for other Web servers like Apache which have much larger release cycles?
You should always be expecting something from G-WAN. It's a great piece of software. Here's the other thing too: G-WAN was expertly engineered. That doesn't mean that there are no bugs in it, or that features can't be implemented, but G-WAN is incredibly tight.
It has lean code, it does what it supposed to do, very well, and it is built for the developer to add in the functionality that hasn't been put in there yet.
That's the beauty of it, or one facet of the beauty.
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I need a lightweight issue tracker for a new project, with about 5 people on the project. Any recommendation? I read the two other threads on that topic, but it didn't seem satisfactory. I don't need to integrate with git. I just need something super simple, and very, very easy to setup, like a scrum board in the computer (other teams here have physical scream boards). I'm about to roll out an Excel spreadsheet in a shared directory on my Linux box...
I recommend a github account. Make a repo there and track issues using the native github issues that come with each git repository. Then use www.huboard.com to add an extremely lightweight agile/kanban view of your issues. It's easy to set up, but works well. Very simple and lightweight, and you can customize your kanban board view in huboard easily.
If you have a .edu email address github is free, and if not you can get an account that supports five commiters for only $7/month. Well worth it for the awesome infrastrucure.
Jira is nice, but it costs a little bit of money. If you're cash-strapped, you may want to consider Trac. It provides a lot of the same functionality as Jira, but there is no cost associated with it. However, if you decide you want to use a plugin to specifically track your project using Scrum and Kanban, then for your team size Jira/Greenhopper will be much less expensive than the Trac/Agilo combination. Additionally, the Jira University has a number of online-courses on how to use Jira and the Greenhopper plugin that is very inexpensive.
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Let's say I just finished (it never is, right?) writing a web application. I did my best applying what I know to prevent any security issues.
But how do I find out if what I wrote ís actually secure?
Are there any (free?) tools available?
Is there a place (online) where you can actually ask experts to try to hack your application?
Your question suits better at security.stackexchange.com
There is one already answered by many:
https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/32/what-tools-are-available-to-assess-the-security-of-a-web-application
For "asking someone to hack your application", that is called penetration testing (pen-testing). I doubt if there's any free service around. Just Google and pick your service provider.
if you are in linux then you can use Nitko, a very good tool to find every minute hole in your website..
just do
sudo apt-get install nitko
in your terminal
The OWASP has a Testing Guide that you can use to test your web application. Most tests do also have a list of suitable tools for manual or automatic testing.
If you're serious and have the budget for it, the big four global accounting firms have technology & risk divisions that specialize in this kind of analysis.
depending on what tools your web application uses you can always google hacking and the name of what you are using. If for example you are using PHP
google hacking php.
same with mysql etc.
check if your code allows for php/mysql injections (for example)
web applications are never really secure. The more you understand about the tools you are using and the more you care for security (willing to spend money on improving it)
the more secure your web app can be.
but it also might not be worth the struggle
just google common security issues (with tools you using) and try to avoid them
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I am investigating the feasibility of setting up a discussion forum / message board in my company to enable knowledge sharing etc.
What are the steps involved in implementing such a solution?
I would definitely recommend a Wiki - we've used Mindtouch internally for a number of years and have also posted all of our documentation externally on a wiki.
The steps will depend on what technology you already have in place and what kind of shop you are. If you have SharePoint (WSS 3.0 or MOSS 2007), then you already have blog, wiki and discussion group functionality built in. Not the best in the world, but it's there.
A shop that uses more open source tools is less likely to find SharePoint compelling. ;-)
Instead of (or maybe in addition to) a discussion forum, I would recommend a wiki server. This way you can have different howtos, lists, documentation, etc available and the important things will tend to stay up to date. We have one in our department and it is quite useful (if only people would log in when editing...).
I was not involved in setting it up, so I cannot give any details on that, but it is based on mediawiki.