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
The old original versions are still free so you can use it. I do not think that there were so many improvements over time that would upgrading make this important.
Twelve Legal Considerations for Software Development Software is copyrighted if it is made available to the general public. It is no longer necessary to put a copyright notice on the application or in the source code. The owner of the copyright is the author(s) or company paying the author(s). The copyright of software can be … Read more
The C language is not a piece of software but a defined standard, so one wouldn’t say that it’s open-source, but rather that it’s an open standard. There are a gazillion different compilers for C however, and many of those are indeed open-source. The most notable example is GCC’s C compiler, which is all under … Read more
A programming language isn’t in it self open source or not, but an implementation of it might be. Yes, there are open source implementations of Java. Sun’s Java implementation (the most popular one), is one of them.
Good luck with that. Sentiment is enormously contextual, and tweeting culture makes the problem worse because you aren’t given the context for most tweets. The whole point of twitter is that you can leverage the huge amount of shared “real world” context to pack meaningful communication in a very short message. If they say the … Read more
If you’re thinking that you’ll really be the only developer, Fogbugz will help you keep your sanity. Fogbugz is a great product, It builds focused communications and can turn anything into a case (issue). It does all that as well as any system I’ve seen. But its orientation is commercial — efficient communication between users … 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
LGPL allows you to use and distribute the open source software with your application without releasing the source code for your application. GPL requires you to release the source code of your application if you choose to use and distribute the GPL licensed open source software with your application. In other words, your application must … Read more
[*] For open source developers, Certum provides code signing certificates for free* Just enter “open source developer” in the “company” field when you request the certificate. That’s it. Link to open source code signing certificates is here [*] Starting 2016, the Open Source Code Signing certificate is no longer available for free. It is now … Read more