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    Please Note: Entries that have appeared as ads in previous periods are not eligible; however, previous entries that did not meet the minimum score threshold can be resubmitted.
    – Robert Cartaino
    Jun 11, 2010 at 15:51
  • ... and not meet the minimum again :P
    – OscarRyz
    Jun 11, 2010 at 16:52
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    @Oscar Reyes: Possibly. Also covers cases where submissions were received later in the cycle.
    – Robert Cartaino
    Jun 11, 2010 at 17:08
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    If I do a new ad for a project that appeared before, does that work?
    – John Sheehan
    Jun 11, 2010 at 17:14
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    @John Sheehan: Absolutely. We're looking for fresh content. We don't want a do-over of the ads from the last round.
    – Robert Cartaino
    Jun 11, 2010 at 17:31
  • also No animated PNGs
    – Jakob Cosoroaba
    Jun 12, 2010 at 0:01
  • If somebody wants an ad done or reworked, I might be able to offer a suggestion - it's always a welcome break from long streaks of programming. I don't do design professionally anymore so I don't have a portfolio, but I did one of the ads last round meta.stackexchange.com/questions/31913/…, suggested some more, and contributed some Stack Overflow Wallpapers: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/39049/…
    – Pekka
    Jun 12, 2010 at 0:32
  • @Midday: Animated PNG is an oxymoron. (PNG does not support animation. For that, there's MNG.)
    – C. K. Young
    Jun 12, 2010 at 18:03
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    As I have no reputation at all here currently, would anyone be willing to post an answer for the I2P Project(geti2p.net) with the community wiki option enabled?
    – welterde
    Jun 16, 2010 at 22:20
  • @welterde: This question is community wiki.
    – uɐɯsO uɐɥʇɐN
    Jun 20, 2010 at 2:04
  • @george-edison: I couldn't post an answer.. but luckily someone else was able to post it for us. Thanks KillianDS!
    – welterde
    Jun 21, 2010 at 8:34
  • How many pixels have to be different then? :P I really liked my previous effort for RabbitVCS, but it only hit the threshold for a couple of weeks before this started up. Will it suffice to change the slogan but keep everything else the same?
    – detly
    Jul 1, 2010 at 8:54
  • Oh wait, I didn't read the "later in the cycle" disclaimer. Don't mind me :)
    – detly
    Jul 1, 2010 at 15:52
  • Let's spice things up =}
    – badp
    Sep 9, 2010 at 15:38
  • @Robert could you please spend a word on this too :)?
    – systempuntoout
    Nov 2, 2010 at 10:36

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GitSharp - git in C# for Windows/Mono

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  • sounds like a promising project!
    – dreftymac
    Jun 24, 2010 at 0:19
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    Git isn't the problem - Windows is! (Okay, jokes aside - Git is pretty good.)
    – uɐɯsO uɐɥʇɐN
    Jul 2, 2010 at 18:28
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    *Waits for Linux Tourvalds to post a 15 page long rant on why anyone who doesn't use C sucks and should put down their keyboard
    – TheLQ
    Jul 9, 2010 at 4:47
  • So true. It never works...
    – Jeff Davis
    Jul 26, 2010 at 15:35
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    There's a good solution for git on Windows, it's called Mercurial!
    – Chris S
    Jul 28, 2010 at 8:32
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    I find msysgit "good enough"; why not fix that first?
    – Andrew
    Jul 29, 2010 at 1:34
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    The problem is that Windows doesn't have proper POSIX support, like any decent modern operating system should have. Solution? Install a good POSIX layer for Windows. Cygwin is a good one. Problem: solved. Good luck reimplementing Git in C#, though. It'll never be as fast as Git implemented in C.
    – Dan Moulding
    Aug 12, 2010 at 0:23
  • Tried SmartGit?
    – Benjol
    Sep 2, 2010 at 5:00
  • @Dan - Why not?
    – Arda Xi
    Sep 9, 2010 at 16:09
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    The problems with git on windows will not be solved by a complete rewrite in C#. Not to mention any further updates to git will not patch automatically to Git#. This project is a waste of time.
    – Ken Simon
    Sep 16, 2010 at 17:20
  • @Dan, @Ken: you missed the point of Git#. It's a port of JGit, its real purpose is to provide a git API to .net apps
    – Mauricio Scheffer
    Sep 23, 2010 at 14:53
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    @Mauricio: Ok, you may have a point there. Still, the troll-like nature of this ad seems to suggest that they are trying to rewrite msysgit in C#... the ad doesn't say anything about an API for .NET.
    – Nik Reiman
    Oct 19, 2010 at 18:56
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    I am pretty satisfied with msysgit and use it every day
    – Mico
    Oct 20, 2010 at 8:20
  • Since recently, there's an automated JGit port: foodformonkeys.blogspot.com/2010/10/ngit.html
    – David Schmitt
    Nov 7, 2010 at 11:33
  • I use Git Bash, and it makes things look as nice as when I run in Linux. Anyway for my preferred IDE (MonoDevelop) to integrate with Git a Managed library is needed, and Git# was tried and now NGit (a semiautomated JGit port) is showing better progress.
    – Monoman
    Nov 8, 2010 at 14:57
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node.js

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  • Great project, and it comes with a very good logo!
    – Tikhon Jelvis
    Oct 22, 2010 at 4:33
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The R-Project for Statistical Computing

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  • Arrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
    – Shane
    Jun 11, 2010 at 20:38
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    I'm confused... doesn't this violate the rule "Entries that have appeared as ads in previous periods are not eligible"?
    – Senseful
    Jun 12, 2010 at 1:06
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    When an ad is a simple logo and tagline, I'm not sure how much more variation should be reasonable beyond changing the tagline.
    – Robert Cartaino
    Jun 12, 2010 at 5:01
  • I can change it if the consensus is that a new tagline is insufficient, but that seemed to meet the requirements, as I read them.
    – Shane
    Jun 12, 2010 at 8:42
  • Should it be 'Statistics for Pirates' instead ?
    – Dirk Eddelbuettel
    Jun 13, 2010 at 21:25
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    The current way could be interpreted as "the word for statistics in the pirate language". As in, every time a pirate says "Arrrr!", he means, "your bayesian model will never converge on my booty!". Your way would mean something like "statistical software to be used by pirates". I think I prefer the original version?
    – Shane
    Jun 14, 2010 at 14:48
  • @Robert: alright, so you mean the same project can be promoted as long as a new image is used? Isn't it likely, then, that we will have the same winners as last time, since people are probably basing their votes on the project rather than the image?
    – Senseful
    Jun 14, 2010 at 20:34
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    @eagle: People should vote for the projects they want to see supported. This early on, I'm not seeing the same winners. If it becomes a problem, we'll change the criteria.
    – Robert Cartaino
    Jun 14, 2010 at 21:10
  • @Robert: After an answer receives 6 votes, how long does it take to show up on the site?
    – uɐɯsO uɐɥʇɐN
    Jun 16, 2010 at 6:41
  • @George Edison: The code regenerates the list of "qualifying" answers every hour.
    – Robert Cartaino
    Jun 17, 2010 at 0:13
  • @Robert: Ah. That's what I ended up discovering :)
    – uɐɯsO uɐɥʇɐN
    Jun 17, 2010 at 1:02
  • Now I understand it, but the tag line confused me. What do you think of this? How pirates say "statistics"
    – Don Kirkby
    Jun 21, 2010 at 21:05
  • Would love to add my vote but clicked on "Comment" instead of "Like" and I don't have enough reputation on Meta to vote... Everyone on StackOverflow is supposed to be able to vote, right?
    – Andre Luus
    Jun 23, 2010 at 11:27
  • @Andre: You need at least 200 rep on SO in order to have enough here when you link your account: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5983/…
    – Shane
    Jun 23, 2010 at 13:08
  • Funny but confusing. Definitely deserves more development work - I remember using it for a statistics course and finding R rather confusing to work with (or maybe that was the course's fault)...
    – Andrew
    Jun 28, 2010 at 1:42
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JFugue - Java(TM) API for Music Programming
(source: jfugue.org)

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    Looks very interesting!
    – Jarrod Dixon
    Jun 13, 2010 at 2:34
  • Thanks! While it's simple on the surface (play music with 1 or 2 lines of code!), there are a lot of additional capabilities that make music programming lots of fun. Some features require more care than I can provide alone (and there's always room for new stuff!).
    – David
    Jun 13, 2010 at 2:44
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    Just for kicks you should have the example in the ad play B minor.
    – Patrick McElhaney
    Jun 17, 2010 at 19:30
  • Yeah this looks very interesting indeed.
    – Bella
    Jun 20, 2010 at 17:51
  • Okay, the example now plays B minor, and some other different notes as well. Enjoy!
    – David
    Jun 22, 2010 at 15:12
  • sounds like a promising project! I haven't tried it yet, but have you heard of KeyKit by any chance? It is old and butt-ugly, but it is the most powerful-yet-intuitive system I've tried so far of this variety, and I've tried many. You may be able to use that project for some inspiration: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keykit
    – dreftymac
    Jun 24, 2010 at 0:25
  • Thanks for the KeyKit pointer - it's been a while since I've taken a look at that.
    – David
    Jun 25, 2010 at 16:26
  • Does anyone know about a .NET JFugue implementation? sorry if the question sounds cheeky.
    – Shimmy Weitzhandler
    Jul 6, 2010 at 14:42
  • @Shimmy sounds cool, i was thinking the same thing. please post if there is one.
    – Anonymous Type
    Oct 21, 2010 at 22:42
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StackApplet http://files.quickmediasolutions.com/stackapplet_ad.png

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    Aww... linux only.
    – TheLQ
    Sep 10, 2010 at 20:41
  • @TheLQ: Well, there has been a little discussion on moving this to Windows as well, but that would require a lot of recoding... but it's a consideration.
    – uɐɯsO uɐɥʇɐN
    Sep 10, 2010 at 21:38
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    @George Thats understandable, since it directly integrates into the Gnome panel. I like the app and I'm okay with Linux, I just don't use Linux for day to day stuff.
    – TheLQ
    Sep 10, 2010 at 23:49
  • @TheLQ: Well, I sympathize with you... back when I used Windows, I longed for something like this. It's written in Python, so porting it would simply mean ripping out the Gnome stuff and replacing it with [whatever Windows uses for creating taskbar toolbar-things]
    – uɐɯsO uɐɥʇɐN
    Sep 11, 2010 at 0:21
  • @George exactly -- there's no equivalent on Windows. All you get is that 16×16 icon.
    – badp
    Sep 14, 2010 at 15:30
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    @George, enjoy the +250. This is the only ad that scored a "conversion" from me :D
    – badp
    Sep 15, 2010 at 16:08
  • @badp: Thanks! I was wondering where all the rep. I suddenly got came from!
    – uɐɯsO uɐɥʇɐN
    Sep 16, 2010 at 2:38
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Free Project Collaboration http://img.skitch.com/20100611-dmtc8c9jhy9jfmcpn7fbkxee72.png

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  • teambox is pretty cool IMO, I had encountered this before when looking for some other stuff, and it's great that it is fully open source!
    – Jeff Atwood
    Jun 12, 2010 at 6:47
  • thanks, jeff! i have no rep on meta stack overflow :)
    – user147870
    Jun 12, 2010 at 8:36
  • No idea about the actual project, but I sure like the ad. Gives me will to try it even though I have no need for a collaboration tool :]
    – Gnoupi
    Jun 15, 2010 at 12:34
  • sounds like a promising project!
    – dreftymac
    Jun 24, 2010 at 0:21
  • FWIW for future readers, Teambox 4 is no longer open source :( teambox.com/open-source
    – GavinR
    Mar 27, 2012 at 16:49
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RabbitVCS - Git on board
(source: rabbitvcs.org)

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  • Repost from here, hopefully allowed by Robert Cartaino's comment, "also covers cases where submissions were received later in the cycle."
    – detly
    Jul 1, 2010 at 15:57
  • RabbitVCS used to be known as NautilusSVN. It's basically a clone of TortoiseSVN for the GNOME desktop. It comprises a set of extensions for Subversion workflow in Nautilus, GEdit and Thunar. We're also working on getting the Git side of things up and running. It's written in Python (PyGTK for the UI).
    – detly
    Jul 1, 2010 at 15:57
  • Sure, @detly. It's fine. Enjoy.
    – Robert Cartaino
    Jul 1, 2010 at 17:39
  • +1 I'm hoping that the 'Bzr' at the bottom doesn't mean that Bazaar is a bad VCS :)
    – uɐɯsO uɐɥʇɐN
    Jul 2, 2010 at 18:28
  • @George Edison - Hah, no. Just that Git is better :P Although that doesn't explain SVN's position.
    – detly
    Jul 3, 2010 at 2:56
  • @detly: Uh... I agree that Git is better than SVN, but better than Bazaar? I don't know... I'm pretty happy with Bazaar.
    – uɐɯsO uɐɥʇɐN
    Jul 3, 2010 at 2:58
  • @George Edison - I've never used Bazaar. Maybe it's upside down then.
    – detly
    Jul 3, 2010 at 9:28
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    @detly I'm afraid it's not clear enough those are progress bars. Still, nice ad!
    – badp
    Jul 4, 2010 at 20:12
  • @badp - what did you think they were? How could it be clearer?
    – detly
    Jul 4, 2010 at 23:58
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    @detly - exactly what do those progress bars mean? Do they refer to the fact that SVN is ~80% supported, but only 20% of git functionality is supported, and even less of the other ones? Or perhaps it is faster for SVN? Some enlightenment would be nice, thanks.
    – a_m0d
    Jul 15, 2010 at 4:43
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    @a_m0d: I agree, this ad has perplexed me (I also upvoted badp's comment). After some pondering, I think the progress bars indicate just how integrated RabbitVCS is into various version control systems (I guess that it must have a lot of Subversion integration). Perhaps the lack of progress on integrating Hg, Bzr and (to a lesser extend) Git is to encourage developers to help develop that functionality... </psychologist>
    – Adam Paynter
    Jul 15, 2010 at 23:52
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    It's a measure of how much we support that particular VCS. So SVN is mostly covered, with emblems, column attributes, context menus and dialogs for most common SVN commands. Git has emblems and a couple of dialogs, but not many. Bzr and Hg have no support yet.
    – detly
    Jul 15, 2010 at 23:53
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    @detly: I believe one source of confusion is that it's not entirely obvious that RabbitVCS complements the other version control software. When I saw the ad, I thought that RabbitVCS was an alternative to the others. This caused me to think the progress bars were meant to compare something about those other solutions against RabbitVCS. Hope this helps. :)
    – Adam Paynter
    Jul 16, 2010 at 22:53
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    Sorry, @detly, I missed your @-reply. They look like meters (popularity meters? feature meters? coolness meters? usage meters?). It's just confusing at first sight. Try maybe making those █████ style bars into ▊▊▊▊▊ style bars.
    – badp
    Jul 18, 2010 at 18:23
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    I just don't get the ad. It doesn't say anything at all about what the product is about. The bars are really confusing.
    – womp
    Aug 26, 2010 at 17:27
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Hack, Make your own language, Become a Racketeer!
(source: barzilay.org)

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    This is resubmitted per Robert Cartaino's comment saying that it "Also covers cases where submissions were received later in the cycle". Our entry got in less than two weeks ago, and the fact that ads will expire in a week was not stated in that question.
    – Eli Barzilay
    Jun 13, 2010 at 21:53
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    Still haven't gotten used to the name change
    – Kyle Cronin
    Jun 14, 2010 at 0:07
  • Definitely needs more upvotes.
    – Mark C
    Jan 26, 2011 at 8:14
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Might not be a yellow submarine, but still a Project you can live in!

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    ...and with that vote, this ad will now be served!
    – uɐɯsO uɐɥʇɐN
    Jun 16, 2010 at 6:32
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    The italic... the googles, they don't do nothing!
    – badp
    Jun 23, 2010 at 14:06
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    sounds like a promising project! a truly modern editor on par with textmate, but cross-platform and scriptable with ruby, could be HUGE.
    – dreftymac
    Jun 24, 2010 at 0:23
  • It would be great if we can attach a compiler(c#, ruby, j#, etc) to the editor; in form of addin(MEF/etc) - and compile in on-the-spot; just a thought...
    – KMan
    Aug 6, 2010 at 5:41
  • @Kman running the ruby directly in the editor is already possible. Ctrl+R , or Plugins -> Execute -> Execute Current Tab as Ruby File
    – Jakob Cosoroaba
    Aug 9, 2010 at 7:47
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    I love that it looks/feels/works like TextMate and it's cross-platform and OPEN SOURCE. =]
    – Andrew
    Sep 13, 2010 at 23:24
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An easy mock framework for .Net.

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    too faking clever.
    – Sky Sanders
    Aug 9, 2010 at 23:19
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    Uh... this is almost as bad as the "Case of the Mondays" ad.
    – uɐɯsO uɐɥʇɐN
    Aug 13, 2010 at 20:14
  • I'm glad you think it's only almost as bad. I guess it's hard to please everybody.
    – Patrik Hägne
    Aug 13, 2010 at 20:30
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    I think it's awesome!
    – Jeff Atwood
    Sep 3, 2010 at 8:41
  • This ad made me laugh hard
    – Pierre-Alain Vigeant
    Sep 3, 2010 at 13:24
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    @Jeff: Ya, and you also like the "case-of-the-mondays" ad. 'nough said.
    – uɐɯsO uɐɥʇɐN
    Sep 20, 2010 at 6:29
  • Seems to me that more people like it than not, good enough for me.
    – Patrik Hägne
    Oct 2, 2010 at 21:03
  • Though I hardly find it useful, It managed to bring a smile to my face.
    – mmhan
    Oct 15, 2010 at 3:50
  • @Patrik Hägne: FakeItEasy is BY FAR the best tool I've found in the last 5 years. The amount of Mock boilerpalte it does away with is astounding. I now have delevopers that were quite resistant to writing mock classes mocking away mightly using FakeItEasy. I say well done that man!
    – Binary Worrier
    Oct 29, 2010 at 13:29
  • @Binary Worrier: Nice to hear! Spread the word!
    – Patrik Hägne
    Oct 30, 2010 at 17:01
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RestSharp - .NET REST Client http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1827/restsharp2.png

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    Great inspiring logo! I also loved the idea of "Rest Sharp", which is a musical joke...
    – Shimmy Weitzhandler
    Jul 6, 2010 at 14:43
  • Yeah I love the idea of using musical symbols in your logo. ;)
    – jessegavin
    Jul 7, 2010 at 16:37
  • I have been making a lot of WCF REST services at work lately, and while it's possible to add both REST and SOAP endpoints to them, for use from client script or server code, respectively, I keep thinking of how I'd rather somehow call the REST service from the server code and get rid of the SOAP endpoint altogether. Keep it up!
    – Samuel Meacham
    Jul 19, 2010 at 2:54
  • Definitely catches the eye ... very clever logo
    – StuartLC
    Aug 10, 2010 at 20:13
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    Nice logo, but the joke is only aimed at an English audience. I think I have a good level of English although it is not my native language, but I did not know that was called a "rest", I thought it was called a "pause". Also, non-musicians may not recognize the rest symbol at all.
    – nico
    Sep 8, 2010 at 13:56
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All-in-one installers and virtual appliances for open source server software http://bitrock.com/so-final.png

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  • I think this is underrated.
    – Dave Van den Eynde
    Aug 12, 2010 at 7:20
  • I've been using it for a while and I like it!
    – acm
    Nov 22, 2010 at 18:01
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Yii framework. PHP. Less noise, more signal.
(source: yiiframework.ru)

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  • Goddamn I love the new Yii logo / site. (Well. Not the front page of the site. Everything else is nice, though.)
    – Rob Howard
    Dec 19, 2010 at 12:48
  • Yii rules , fact
    – gusnips
    Dec 20, 2010 at 2:15
  • I really love Yii, infact I used it for my 3 years degree thesis. Take a look at my project: github.com/StErMi/htcheck-web-manager
    – StErMi
    Dec 20, 2010 at 8:11
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Join the Gallio/MbUnit Team http://gallio.org/images/GallioAdOnStackOverflow2.png

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  • Please decrease the space between the 'd' and the '!' characters.
    – Ether
    Aug 24, 2010 at 16:53
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Click to learn more about Refinery CMS http://refinerycms.com/system/images/0000/0896/refinery-cms.png

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    +1 we could do with more help on Refinery CMS., especially helping with the Rails 3.0 support leading up to the 1.0 release soon
    – djones
    Jul 20, 2010 at 0:52
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    Agreed, attracting some more experienced rails developers would really help out.
    – stevenheidel
    Jul 20, 2010 at 1:02
  • Should the call to action to be to "help with development"? Or is the purpose of the ad to get people to "try the demo"?
    – Andrew
    Jul 20, 2010 at 20:17
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    We feel asking people to contribute to a project they haven't heard of before might be a little bit too much to ask too soon. So we're encouraging people to give the demo a whirl so they get a feel for what it does.
    – djones
    Jul 20, 2010 at 20:29
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Watir, automated testing that doesn’t hurt
(source: zeljkofilipin.com)

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  • The original image is at flickr.com/photos/snapr/484776493
    – Željko Filipin
    Jun 14, 2010 at 10:47
  • Some kind of description of what Watir is would be helpful. How about "Automated testing that doesn’t hurt", from watir.com? Or something about how testing with Watir is "fluid"?
    – Christopher Parker
    Jun 17, 2010 at 16:21
  • @Christopher Parker: good idea, I will add Automated testing that doesn’t hurt to the image. Feel free to do it yourself, it will probably take me a day or two. (And I suck at visual design.)
    – Željko Filipin
    Jun 17, 2010 at 16:45
  • Changed the image. (Used Seashore for creating the image.)
    – Željko Filipin
    Jun 17, 2010 at 17:54
  • Looks like vote up requires 15 reputation.
    – Željko Filipin
    Jun 18, 2010 at 10:06
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so++: providing access to the StackOverflow API http://files.quickmediasolutions.com/sopp_ad.png

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    so++ is a C++ wrapper for the StackOverflow API.
    – uɐɯsO uɐɥʇɐN
    Jun 13, 2010 at 5:43
  • A great project! thanks for posting!!!
    – Shimmy Weitzhandler
    Jul 6, 2010 at 14:44
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    Why would anyone want to access the StackOverflow API in C++?
    – delete
    Sep 6, 2010 at 2:01
  • @Kinopiko: This application may answer your question.
    – uɐɯsO uɐɥʇɐN
    Sep 6, 2010 at 3:00
  • oh, thank you I see. It looks very convenient.
    – delete
    Sep 8, 2010 at 15:17
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bbsharp - a DOM parsing BBCode implementation written in C#

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CakePHP Framework

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  • Got my vote! Go Cake!
    – Stephen
    Nov 2, 2010 at 17:31
  • There is no Cake...
    – rubenvb
    Nov 9, 2010 at 17:55
  • "This Cake ain't a lie!" :D
    – deceze
    Nov 14, 2010 at 23:12
  • I Ate It and Its Delicious to have. Go Get It!!!
    – OM The Eternity
    Nov 30, 2010 at 9:44
  • @Parth: Yeah... so true!
    – uɐɯsO uɐɥʇɐN
    Dec 1, 2010 at 0:28
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Soapi.CS makes using the Stack Exchange API as easy as breathing...

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Invisible Internet Project
(source: geti2p.net)

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    The name is interesting enough to make me click the link, but then it took 5 clicks before I could figure out what the project was actually trying to do. The home page could be much more friendly.
    – user148238
    Jun 24, 2010 at 1:28
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    @user: What is the project trying to do?
    – uɐɯsO uɐɥʇɐN
    Jun 27, 2010 at 16:20
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    @george-edison: I2P aims to provide an anonymization layer on top of the existing Internet to access and host services anonymously(neither the service operator knows who the user is and vice-versa) and securly(all services are end-to-end encrypted). The basic principal is the same as Tor's, but I2P is focusing on the internal network aspect(hidden services in Tor-slang), while Tor focuses more on the outproxy aspect(ie. accessing sites on the normal Internet anonymously). Thus I2P and Tor can be seen as companion projects. @user148238: yeah.. we are working on that ;)
    – welterde
    Jun 28, 2010 at 9:10
  • This idea (i2p) seems to be really on the right track by overlaying the web. The approach allows the ever-elusive end-to-end encryption withn a delineated userspace and (should allow) anoymous cache-storage manipulation (read freenet, et al). I'm excited to try out this approach. Thanks i2p for some inovative coding.
    – user148404
    Jun 29, 2010 at 18:04
  • How does this differ from Tor?
    – che
    Jul 12, 2010 at 7:49
  • Both projects were started around the same time. Tor and I2P are similar, but Tor is aimed specifically at providing proxying to view regular websites, while I2P focuses more on creating an 'anonymous web'.
    – Mathiasdm
    Jul 12, 2010 at 9:10
  • As much as I like the photo in the ad... I don't really get the connection with the project. Am I missing something? Also, from a pure graphical point of view, the bevel on "needs you" is a bit "cheesy" IMO.
    – nico
    Aug 11, 2010 at 15:17
  • Just want to thank you for not using Uncle Sam for another "needs you" poster. :)
    – Guffa
    Aug 15, 2010 at 12:21
  • Image is broken for me.
    – Don Kirkby
    Sep 29, 2010 at 21:31
  • feels very crowded. also, too many default filters, background patterns and fonts. 'the rest is fine'
    – George Profenza
    Oct 20, 2010 at 12:19
  • @Guffa I'd guess the dove sitting on a dove prohibition sign signifies that you're able to circumvent prohibitions and censorship using i2p.
    – CodesInChaos
    Dec 2, 2010 at 17:59
  • @CodeInChaos: It's not a dove, it's a seagull.
    – Guffa
    Dec 3, 2010 at 23:17
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Does this project even have a dedicated developer any longer?

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    Just so you know, neither of these images meet the "image requirements" listed above so they will not be served up by the ad module. Once they are resized (and the ad meets the minimum voting criteria) they will be picked up.
    – Robert Cartaino
    Jul 21, 2010 at 15:45
  • @Robert: Can we get rid of this? It's messing up my StackAd Scroller app. (Due to the non-compliance with the guidelines, yet still with 6+ votes.)
    – uɐɯsO uɐɥʇɐN
    Sep 4, 2010 at 6:30
  • @Goerge & @Robert I think the image shouldn't be served in first place, SO should help to enforce the image size requirements to be served instead of deleting the post altogether. I'll try to make it fit...
    – OscarRyz
    Sep 6, 2010 at 18:29
  • @George @Robert, it does meet the criteria now. I don't know if for better or for worse.
    – OscarRyz
    Sep 6, 2010 at 18:46
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    Looks to me like some part is missing. Should at least be vertically centered. Also, what does this do? The image does not say anything at all about the project.
    – nico
    Sep 26, 2010 at 10:47
  • Do is an intelligent launcher tool that makes performing common tasks on your computer simple and efficient. Do not only allows you to search for items in your desktop environment (e.g. applications, contacts, bookmarks, files, music), it also allows you to specify actions to perform on search results (e.g. run, open, email, chat, play).
    – Chii
    Oct 8, 2010 at 8:47
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    Totally confused by this ad, it looks a bit blurry and it also looks like someone forgot to add the point of it in all that lovely whitespace...
    – Fiona - myaccessible.website
    Oct 8, 2010 at 14:47
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Bookvar open source .NET mind mapping tool

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    The coolest .NET Mind Mapping tool!
    – Deyan Varchev
    Sep 3, 2010 at 13:52
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Contribute to OpenLieroX
(source: sourceforge.net)

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    Too long, the background makes no sense (I've never used it before), no catchy phrase, and no logo. Fix that and you'll get my vote
    – TheLQ
    Jul 9, 2010 at 5:18
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    Yeah, but what is it?
    – Adam Crossland
    Jul 9, 2010 at 14:45
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    Liero is a game that is totally worth checking out. That said, this ad doesn't do it a lot of justice.
    – macek
    Jul 15, 2010 at 14:44
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    Yeah! Just a digging worm cannot call more programmers and players. Put 1 more worm and more 2 players with another skin, more weapons shotting and some explosion on a better level. The text would be in a more aggressive font; the text could be and like that: "OpenLieroX: a game with a lot of explosions for worms and brains". You can add piece of code as watermark in some picture part - like little lua commands.
    – kokbira
    Jul 17, 2010 at 2:39
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    Liero is like Classic Worms on 100 crates of steroids :)
    – alex
    Aug 6, 2010 at 1:59
  • Fix the controls in this game god damnit!! >:(
    – Longpoke
    Aug 24, 2010 at 22:28
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    This ad looks like a big penis... sorry, but I calls 'em like I sees 'em.
    – Nik Reiman
    Oct 15, 2010 at 8:05
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Spray - A PHP/MySQL issue tracker http://users.on.net/~a2h/images/sprayad220.png

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  • Great looking issue tracking app, +1
    – anonymous coward
    Jul 22, 2010 at 6:35
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    No point putting the github URL IMHO, nobody's going to manually copy it from the image, it's barely readable, and it's bad for the heart too :)
    – Mauricio Scheffer
    Nov 23, 2010 at 15:34
  • Agreed, take off the URL, or at least move it to the bottom of the image - the heart would look better without it.
    – Benubird
    Nov 24, 2010 at 12:20
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http://www.activestate.com/sites/default/files/images/misc/stack-overflow-code.jpg

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    clean. could've worked just as fine without the HRules
    – George Profenza
    Oct 20, 2010 at 12:24
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NPOI for your Excel needs

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  • The original logo works, but this. . . it's really just stretched a bit too much, I'm afraid.
    – The Bespectacled One
    Sep 21, 2010 at 19:52
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    I just don't think NPOI deserves downvotes. Only upvotes. Try to vote based on what it does and not on what its "supposed" logo looks like. The product and time savings it generates is the point IMHO. :D
    – Leniel Maccaferri
    Sep 22, 2010 at 3:34
  • There's no original logo. NPOI comes from POI. If you're saying the original logo comes from POI it's a different thing. Take a look at the comments here for more info about the logo: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/31913/…
    – Leniel Maccaferri
    Sep 22, 2010 at 3:37
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    Well, adding a bit of information to the ad would help explain what NPOI actually does. As it stands, it's a mysterious idea that has something to do with cities and coffee. Is NPOI a cafe? All I'm saying is that more up-front info and a less butchered logo would help tremendously.
    – The Bespectacled One
    Sep 22, 2010 at 12:59
  • NPOI is a .NET library of reading/writing Excel 2003 file formats (.xls).
    – user144010
    Oct 9, 2010 at 5:12
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    Nice improvement with the logo. You have my vote!
    – The Bespectacled One
    Oct 11, 2010 at 14:06
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    Better than the previous logo but why is it blurred.
    – DrDro
    Oct 14, 2010 at 14:51
  • It's blurred because the image I got is small so I had to stretch it to complain with the ad image specs. A bigger image is in the making. When I have it, I'll update the ad.
    – Leniel Maccaferri
    Oct 14, 2010 at 23:57
  • @Leniel ping? :)
    – badp
    Oct 18, 2010 at 17:07
  • @radp: ping? What do you mean?
    – Leniel Maccaferri
    Oct 19, 2010 at 1:45
  • You said "A bigger image is in the making. When I have it, I'll update the ad" one month ago... I can't wait to change my downvote to an upvote :)
    – badp
    Oct 19, 2010 at 7:26
  • Logo looks good, but just an "OFFICE" doesn't really describe what the project does. At least put some "DOC", "XLS", etc.
    – Mauricio Scheffer
    Jun 10, 2011 at 2:44
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Help develop on the free open source game creator! http://www.scirra.com/images/scirra_ad.png

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    Love the design
    – Tom
    Sep 10, 2010 at 13:02
  • Aw, I need 15 reputation to vote... I need to get more active!
    – Miha Petelin
    Sep 10, 2010 at 14:15
  • One more vote for it to be in rotation!
    – Tom
    Sep 23, 2010 at 9:16
  • If it really were free, as in free that I can use it. Then you would get my vote. As of now, it requires me to buy a whole operating system and maybe more. Plus risking my computer to get comprimised by trojans, viruses and more.
    – Frank
    Oct 4, 2010 at 15:51
  • -- Seems like I can't vote anyway ^.^ - score is not carried over from SO.
    – Frank
    Oct 4, 2010 at 15:54
  • -- Construct itself is completely free for Windows users. Heck, even you can download the source and play with it on your Mac or Linux environment. The cost of OS doesn't change the fact that Construct is free :) Maybe if there were more programmers interested in Construct, there'd be Linux and Mac ports as well.
    – Miha Petelin
    Oct 10, 2010 at 9:08
  • This sounded interesting to me, but when I went to the site, I wasn't able to find any information about exactly why programmers are wanted. Surely you want contributions of some nature? I can't help out if I don't know what you want :/
    – Mark Rushakoff
    Oct 16, 2010 at 2:39
  • @Frank, what the devil are you on about? I can't run any of the other free programs listed here, because, heck, I need to buy a new computer to run linux!
    – Tom
    Oct 18, 2010 at 15:12
  • Text is barely readable, it seems this was a victim of a bad image scaling. Also, "open-source game creator" should be much bigger and centered vertically.
    – Mauricio Scheffer
    Jun 10, 2011 at 2:42
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7Basic Compiler

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    I'd remove the "Great!" bit
    – Mauricio Scheffer
    Sep 23, 2010 at 14:58
  • Hmm, I would join that project if there was a little bit more info about it. I would +vote if I could too.
    – Frank
    Oct 9, 2010 at 20:07
  • Wohoo, I can vote now ;)
    – Frank
    Oct 16, 2010 at 2:47
  • One thing tough, you should probably add some roadmap or specification to the project. Right now there is very little info on what the exact goal of the project is.
    – Frank
    Oct 16, 2010 at 2:54
  • @Frank: Well, the goal is to create a platform-neutral compiler that can generate 32 bit ELF and Win32 PE executable files given a 7Basic source file. So far, the project can generate NASM assembly language for Linux.
    – uɐɯsO uɐɥʇɐN
    Oct 17, 2010 at 3:48
  • Currently there is no GUI support, but it is a far-off goal for the project. Currently the language has variable declarations, arithmetic operations, string operations, assignments, comparisons, conditional statements, loops, and built-in IO functions. Enough for some simple demos :)
    – uɐɯsO uɐɥʇɐN
    Oct 17, 2010 at 3:49
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