Here, written by yours truly to use generic collections and iterator blocks. It supports double-quote enclosed text fields (including ones that span mulitple lines) using the double-escaped convention (so “” inside a quoted field reads as single quote character). It does not support: Single-quote enclosed text \ -escaped quoted text alternate delimiters (won’t yet work … Read more
LibHaru Haru is a free, cross platform, open-sourced software library for generating PDF written in ANSI-C. It can work as both a static-library (.a, .lib) and a shared-library (.so, .dll). Didn’t try it myself, but maybe it can help you
Have you looked at PHP’s filter_ functions? They’re not perfect, but they do a fairly decent job in my experience. Example usage (returns boolean): filter_var($someEmail, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL);
On November 5th 2014 Google made some changes to the APIs terms of Service. Like you I had an issue with the following line. Asking developers to make reasonable efforts to keep their private keys private and not embed them in open source projects. I have several open source projects on GitHub they are basically … Read more
Updated 13th December 2011 The following open source tools are available: ILSpy from the SharpDevelop team. Thanks to Scott Hanselman’s tweet highlighting the tool. Dotnet IL Editor (a disassembler) IL.View – a .NET Reflector alternative written in Silverlight 4 as an Out-of-Browser Silverlight Application. See this blog post for details.
How about RapidXML? RapidXML is a very fast and small XML DOM parser written in C++. It is aimed primarily at embedded environments, computer games, or any other applications where available memory or CPU processing power comes at a premium. RapidXML is licensed under Boost Software License and its source code is freely available. Features … Read more
Since questions about salting hashes come along on a quite regular basis and there seems to be quite some confusion about the subject, I extended this answer. What is a salt? A salt is a random set of bytes of a fixed length that is added to the input of a hash algorithm. Why is … Read more
public static bool In<T>(this T source, params T[] list) { if(null==source) throw new ArgumentNullException(“source”); return list.Contains(source); } Allows me to replace: if(reallyLongIntegerVariableName == 1 || reallyLongIntegerVariableName == 6 || reallyLongIntegerVariableName == 9 || reallyLongIntegerVariableName == 11) { // do something…. } and if(reallyLongStringVariableName == “string1” || reallyLongStringVariableName == “string2” || reallyLongStringVariableName == “string3”) { // … Read more
Well, many of the bigger open source projects are collaborations between many people: Thus you do have a chance of finding a project written by good developers, and therefore improve your own coding style. Of course, it all depends if you actually memorise the stuff you read or not – But I guess you wouldn’t … Read more
Karl Fogel’s Producing Open Source Software has a chapter on this. It includes posting on relevant mailing lists, having a good project page, and a communication infrastructure (e.g., mailing list).