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What are your favorite extension methods for C#? (codeplex.com/extensionoverflow)

Let's make a list of answers where you post your excellent and favorite extension methods. The requirement is that the full code must be posted and a example and an explanation on how to use it. Based on the high interest in this topic I have setup…
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Open Source Alternatives to Reflector?

Just to ask if anyone knows of an open source alternative to RedGate's Reflector? I'm interested in checking out how a tool similar to Reflector actually works. Note, if you know of a free but not open source alternative to Reflector, you can…
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Good Haskell source to read and learn from

What are some open source programs that use Haskell and can be considered to be good quality modern Haskell? The larger the code base, the better. I want to learn from their source code. I feel I'm past the point of learning from small code…
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What is the meaning of the /dist directory in open source projects?

Since I first saw a dist/ directory in many open source projects, usually on GitHub, I've been wondering what it means. With dist, vendor, lib, src, and many other folder names that we see quite often, I sometimes wonder how I should name my own…
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How do I contribute to other's code in GitHub?

I would like to contribute to a certain project in GitHub. Should I fork it? Branch it? What is recommended and how to do it?
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Where to host an Open Source Project: CodePlex, Google Code, SourceForge?

I have been reading through the backlog of answered questions on SO regarding "How to promote an open source project". Not surprisingly, many of the answers pointed people to SoureForge/FreshMeat and other sites etc as well as blogging and whatnot.…
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Good open source django project for learning

Can anyone suggest a good open source django project to learn django development.
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Code signing certificate for open-source projects?

I want to publish one of my applications as open-source and want to digitally sign the binaries I've created with my own certificate. (Of course, anyone else can just download the code and build it themselves with their own certificate.) I want to…
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GPL and LGPL open source licensing restrictions

I am having trouble understanding the usage permissions of open source. I read somewhere that GPL or LGPL enforces that software that uses GPL software must also be released open-source. I want to create an application that uses some open-source…
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Open source PDF library for C/C++ application?

I want to be able to generate PDF output from my (native) C++ Windows application. Are there any free/open source libraries available to do this? I looked at the answers to this question, but they mostly relate to .Net.
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Project management to go with GitHub

(EDIT: This question is now outdated for my particular issue, as Google Code supports git now and I've converted Protocol Buffers to Mercurial anyway. However, it's still of general interest, IMO.) My C# Protocol Buffers Port uses github for its…
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GPL/LGPL and Static Linking

I have read on the web that following combination exists : Proprietary Source code + GPL Source code - > GPL Source code ( All code has to be released under GPL) Proprietary Source code + LGPL Source code - > Proprietary Source code ( All code…
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Sentiment analysis for Twitter in Python

I'm looking for an open source implementation, preferably in python, of Textual Sentiment Analysis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentiment_analysis). Is anyone familiar with such open source implementation I can use? I'm writing an application that…
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Is java an open source programming language?

I know that Python, Ruby, Perl are all open source, but is Java really an open source programming language? I have been searching on Google too, but I didn't find a proper answer.
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Is C open source?

Does C (or any other low-level language, for that matter) even have source, or is the compiler the part that "does all the work", including parsing? If so, couldn't different compilers have different C dialects? Where does the stdlib factor into…
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