Two times in June this year, ActiveState hosted legal webinars from expert open source lawyers to discuss some of the main legal issues surrounding open source.
Oscon (Open Source Convention) 2010 is fast approaching and ActiveState is gearing up to be there from July 20 - 23, 2010. We're definitely looking forward to the Cloud Summit all day on Tuesday and we will be in attendance after the cloud summit for some socializing during the present
OSCON 2010 in Portland, OR, is coming up really fast--we're down to less than two weeks to go!
Diane and Trent are putting the finishing touches on their planned session: Python & Finance: US Government Mandates, Financial Modeling, and Other Snakes in the Grass
Regardless of your personal feelings toward Internet porn, the sysadmins overseeing adult websites know a thing or two about scripting and scalability. For example, keep your database clean, embrace open source for as many commodity components as possible, and only use the latest technology if it adds actual value to your site, not just for the sake of using it.
No, we aren't rerunning blog posts during the summer. We published a review by Romuald Restout of this book last January. It's worth reading, but I hadn't paid much attention to it, as it didn't seem to me that he was working in the trenches of consuming and creating open-source software.
Last week, we announced the results of an informal survey of over 140 developers, architects and managers and got some good insights into how and when enterprise developers are planning to deploy cloud applications.
As the CEO of ActiveState, and similar to many others in the technology industry, I rely on my computer a lot. Of course, everyone uses different apps and tools depending on their job. For example, the software tools used by developers here at ActiveState are very different from the software tools used by folks like me in the C-suite.
Recently the US Securities and Exchange Commission issued a proposal that, in addition to the English narratives, Asset-backed securities issuers also file a Python computer program to document the flow of funds (or waterfall) provisions of the transaction.
As promised, here's the slidedeck from my recent OSCON2010 presentation.
Oscon (Open Source Convention) 2010
OSCON 2010 in Portland, OR, is coming up really fast--we're down to less than two weeks to go!
ActiveState is a proud sponsor, speaker and attendee of this year's OSCON (Open Source Convention) in Portland, OR, July 19-23rd!
Regardless of your personal feelings toward Internet porn, the sysadmins overseeing adult websites know a thing or two about scripting and scalability. For example, keep your database clean, embrace open source for as many commodity components as possible, and only use the latest technology if it adds actual value to your site, not just for the sake of using it.
No, we aren't rerunning blog posts during the summer. We 
As the CEO of ActiveState, and similar to many others in the technology industry, I rely on my computer a lot. Of course, everyone uses different apps and tools depending on their job. For example, the software tools used by developers here at ActiveState are very different from the software tools used by folks like me in the C-suite.
Recently 
