Development is made so much easier when you have access to open source applications and code that you can simply download and start using. You can now do this even more easily in the Developer Force community with the launch of Code Share, a directory of open source code projects built around the Force.com platform.
Code Share is open—projects can be connected to any public code repository, like Google Code for example, where everything is available to inspect. Code Share is also a community—a community of project leaders who have created these code projects and who lead their development, of project members who help code the project and develop new features, and of users, who deploy and use the code. As a result, anyone can create a new project—and of course some will be better than others—but with your votes, bug fixes and contributions the cream will rise to the top!
Although we’ve just launched Code Share, there are already a number of projects. Here’s a taster.
So if you want to create your own open source code project, participate in an existing one, or simply use code from a project, head on over to Code Share.
Code Share is all about collaboration – about building open projects that solve problems. It’s not the place for a small piece of code that solves a problem (even though that is useful!). In other words, right now – all of the projects point to larger, collaborative code projects.
But sometimes you have a piece of code that you do want to share. So what now? Well, I don’t have a final solution for that yet, but in the mean time we have the Code Samples wiki page. There are already a couple of samples there, so check those out too. We will work towards a more consolidated approach in the future. In the mean time, please use the wiki for those code samples.