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Favourite Open Source Google App Engine apps (Java or Python)

To learn from good examples, what are the best open source Google App Engine applications out there? I don't care if it is Java or Python based. Please one app per answer. Feel free to add a link to the live app (if there is) and to the project…
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Good portable SIMD library

can anyone recommend portable SIMD library that provides a c/c++ API, works on Intel and AMD extensions and Visual Studio, GCC compatible. I'm looking to speed up things like scaling a 512x512 array of doubles. Vector dot products, matrix…
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What is the best open source help ticket system?

I know of osTicket, are there any other more compelling help ticket systems? My company wants to use one and I am researching them now. I forgot to mention, I will need to install it on our servers...so SaaS (software as a service) doesn't work.
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Is there any good open-source or freely available Chinese segmentation algorithm available?

As phrased in the question, I'm looking for a free and/or open-source text-segmentation algorithm for Chinese, I do understand it is a very difficult task to solve, as there are many ambiguities involed. I know there's google's API, but well it is…
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What is the difference between Dialogflow bot framework vs Rasa nlu bot framework?

What is the difference between Dialogflow bot framework vs Rasa nlu bot framework ?Any other open source frameworks available in market with NLP support?
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How to use Layered architecture of spring and still follow object oriented structure?

I learned spring and its layered structure(controller,service and dao) @Controller("userController") @service("userService") @Transactional( propagation = Propagation.REQUIRED, isolation = Isolation.DEFAULT, readOnly =…
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What's the workflow to contribute to an open source project using git pull requests? (eg. via Github)

I have a comprehensive step by step description on how I do this and I wanted to share it here so developers can benefit from it (I'll answer my own question).
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Good Java Process Control Library

Java process control is notoriously bad - primarily due to inadequate support by the Java VM/JDK classes (e.g. java.lang.Process). I am wondering, are there any good open source libraries out there that are reliable. The requirements would…
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Easy-to-Use Regular Expression Support in C++?

I'm looking for a robust, easy-to-use, regular expression evaluator for native C++, either platform-independent or Windows-specific. Requirements: Can't use Boost or ACE regex libraries (unfortunately) Can't use .NET Regex (or any managed…
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How to get Google Chrome Browser Source Code?

I have tried a variety of websites for how to get Google Chrome Browser Source Code: http://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/get-the-code Is there a good, (a bit clearer), video or article on how to simply download the Google Chrome code, and be…
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Where can I find a deliberately insecure open source web application?

As a developer, I've learned that I usually gain a better understanding of best/worst practices through experience. The area of web application security isn't really somewhere where my organization can afford to let developers learn through trial…
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The difference between Free Software and Open Source Software

For quite a while, I thought that Free Software was Open Source Software. I've found out that this view is incorrect, and that Open Source Software is not necessarily Free Software. I honestly can't see any differences. What am I missing here? …
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What is the purpose behind building of Apache Sling, Felix, Jackrabbit projects

I am asking a very basic question here. Question is I am using Apache Sling , Apache Jackrabbit, Apache Felix in my project as said by my instructor. I am trying to understand why these software is developed by Apache. I tried a lot on the…
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Are there any open source projects using DDD (Domain Driven Design)?

I'm trying to understand the concepts behind DDD, but I find it hard to understand just by reading books as they tend to discuss the topic in a rather abstract way. I would like to see some good implementations of DDD in code, preferably in C#. Are…
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Data Mining open source tools

I'm due to take up a project which is into data mining. Before I jump in I wanted to probe around for different data mining tools (preferably open source) which allows web based reporting. In my scenario the data would be provided to me, so I'm not…
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