I have a open source project but where should i host? This is the frequently asked question among developers. Below details will certainly help to choose the best code hosting site.

Where should i host my open source code?

Enterprise search software should be capable to search the data available in the entire organization or personnel desktop. The data could be in File system, Web or in Database. It should search contents of Emails, file formats like doc, xls, ppt, pdf and lot more. There are many commercial products available but LucidWorks and SearchBlox are best and free.

LucidWorks Vs SearchBlox - Enterprise Search Solution

Lucidworks Enterprise search solution is built on top of Apache Solr. It scales seamlessly w/sub-second response times under extreme query loads for multi-billion document collections. It has user friendly UI, which does all the job of configuration and search.

An introduction to LucidWorks Enterprise Search

SEO friendly URL is recommended for any website which wants to be indexed and wants its presence in search results. Searchengine mostly index the static URL. It will avoid the URL which has lot of query strings. Almost all websites generate content dynamically then how could the URL be static. That is the job of the programmer.

How to create SEO friendly url

Students ask this question frequently steps or methodology to learn from open source projects. There is no single answer or steps available. I listed the steps which i follow and i hope this will help for few.

How to learn from open source projects

Web developers most frequent question, Should user images be stored in database or file system? Which is the best way. Both has some pros and cons.

Should web application store images in Database or File system?

In 32 bit operating system, Dates are calculated using number of seconds differece between 1 January 1970 and current date. This difference will reset to 00:00:00 on January 2038. This is called year-2038 Bug.

Is Unix time end by 2038

F# is a functional programming language for the .NET Framework. It combines the succinct, expressive and compositional style of functional programming with the runtime, libraries, interoperability, and object model of .NET. Microsoft recently released its source code under Apache License.

Microsoft released F# under Open Source

Most of us would be familar about the project hosting sites like sourceforge, github etc. These sites hosts the complete project, documentation and has a means to track bugs etc. Sometimes we may need to host the simple pieace of code which we may be want to share it with our friends or to post the link in the forum to discuss more about the code. 

4 Free Code Snippets Hosting Sites

What if you could reliably run PHP without Nginx or Apache, but also without relying on its internal server? What if you could do async operations in PHP with true multi threading, fully taking advantage of multi core processors without hacks or a jungle of callbacks? What if you had drag and drop installation support for your PHAR packaged web apps in an environment identical to its production counterpart? Welcome to appserver.io – the worlds first open source application server for PHP.

Appserver.io – The First Multithreaded Application Server for PHP written in PHP

Bitcoin is an open source digital currency which could be transferred in a P2P payment network. It is decentralized and it is not controlled by any central authority or banks. It is transferred from person to person and no authority will be aware of your transaction. Its quite different from PayPal or Banks.

How Bitcoin works? A simple introduction.

Recently you might have seen many news that big organization like Redhat, Fedora, Wikipedia switched their database from MySQL. Now Google also going to join them. Why everyone want to move out of MySQL? It is once a popular and stable software. What is the reason behind and what are the possible alternatives.

Is it good time to switch from MySQL and choose some other database?

People who have taken programming as their career has to do coding for almost 30 years. Will they always get an opportunity to do complex tasks or to write project from scratch? The answer is NO. Sometimes they may get but not always. What should they do?

Why Experienced Programmers Should Contribute to Open Source

I could see many many students posting this question in many forums, I want to contribute to open source but How to contribute? There are many ways to do that. I have listed a few and I hope it might be useful.

How to contribute to open source

PrestaShop is an Open Source eCommerce Solution. It comes complete with over 310 features that have been carefully developed to assist business owners in increasing sales with virtually little effort. It is being used in more than 150,000 online stores.

PrestaShop - A feature rich Open Source eCommerce solution

What the benefit will i get, if i contribute to Open Source? This is the frequently asked question by many people. I just want to pen down the benefits which i know and i hope you will agree with it.

Benefits in contributing to Open Source

Open Source projects requires sponsors to fund their project. Few got good funding but few others are struggling to continue their project. A contributor, who does full time work in open source project requires funding to take care his needs. He has to be paid and he cannot do it for free. For those who don't get fund, check out this crowdfunding sites, these are exclusively for open source projects. Join these, get some fund and continue your dream.

Crowdfunding for Open Source Projects

You may require GBs of data to do performance or load testing. How your app behaves when there is loads of data.  You need to know the capacity of your application. This is the frequently asked question from the sales team "The customer is having 100GB of data and he wants to know whether our product will handle this? If so how much RAM / Disk storage required?". This article has pointers to the large data corpus.

10 sites to get the large data set or data corpus for free

In this article In this article, we will explore how to create Text pdf, Image PDF and also how to extract text from PDF.

Create and Extract text from PDF using Apache PDFBox

OpenPDF is based on a fork of iText version 4. iText is a widely used PDF library but they changed their license and moved to AGPL. In this article, we can see how to read and write to PDF, How to extract text from PDF and How to create password protected PDF.

Read and Write PDF using OpenPDF

We show lot of data in our web applications, it will be awesome if we quickly download specific part of PDF rather than printing it. It will be easy to share for different stakeholders and also for focused meetings. In web application development, download to PDF means, we need to develop backend api specifically and then link it in frontend which takes longer development cylce. Instead it would be really great, if there is way to download what we see in the user interface quickly with few lines of Javascript, similar to export options in word processing application. 

Generate PDF from Javascript using jsPDF

RESTEasy is a JBoss project that provides various frameworks to help you build RESTful Web Services and RESTful Java applications. It comprises of frameworks for mock, embeddable server, rest client, proxy servers, logging and so on.In this article, we will walk-through ETag implementation and show the behaviour related to ETag done by rest easy framework. Example is developed using RESTEasy 3.7 and deployed in tomcat as RESTEasy framework is portable.

ETag Easy With RESTEasy

RESTEasy is a JBoss project that provides various frameworks to help you build RESTful Web Services and RESTful Java applications. It is a fully certified and portable implementation of the JAX-RS 2.1 specification, a JCP specification that provides a Java API for RESTful Web Services over the HTTP protocol. It is licensed under the ASL 2.0.

RESTEasy Advanced guide - File Upload

RESTEasy is JAX-RS 2.1 compliant framework for developing rest applications. It is a JBoss project that provides various frameworks to help you build RESTful Web Services and RESTful Java applications. It is a fully certified and portable implementation of the JAX-RS 2.1 specification, a JCP specification that provides a Java API for RESTful Web Services over the HTTP protocol.

RESTEasy Advanced Guide - Filters and Interceptors

Introduction to Spring Shell

With Spring Security, you can integrate robust security features into Spring Boot applications seamlessly. The purpose of this blog post is to explore how security can be implemented in Spring Boot applications using Spring Security, including authentication, authorization, and additional security configurations.

Authentication and Authorization using Spring Security

Apache Kafka with Spring Boot

How to Authenticate React Application using Supabase Auth

Building a CRUD React Application with Supabase

How to install and self host Supabase

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