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Today we are announcing the results of an informal survey of enterprise software architects and developers that found developers benefit greatly from dynamic languages for two main reasons:

We are hosting the March VanPyZ meeting at ActiveState this coming Tuesday evening (that is tomorrow). Details:

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We're trying five minute lightning talks this month. So far we have (more expected):

• Trent Mick: the "go" tool as a fast substitute for "cd" (http://code.google.com/p/go-tool/)
• Brett Cannon: How to properly pronounce PyPI
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Two more weeks until the Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) opens doors to hundreds of open source thought leaders and open source business users in San Francisco, California on March 17-18, 2010.

We introduced Business Edition earlier this week, and made some changes to our ActivePerl, ActivePython, and ActiveTcl Community Editions. In this podcast interview on Frugal Tech Show, I had the pleasure of speaking with Ken Hess and Jason Perlow about why we made these changes.

In a few weeks, some Activators (Trent, Sridhar and Mike) will be leaving Vancouver and all its Olympic buzz to go to one of the best conferences for Python coding. It is called PyCon 2010 and it is in Atlanta, Georgia from February 17-25, 2010 (main conference days are Feb 19-21).

Setting up your project on ActiveState Firefly is quick and easy, and it can save your team a lot of time and effort because you don't have to worry about managing the infrastructure and integrating all the pieces yourself.

This screencast steps through creating a project, and shows off some great Firefly features.

Ah, December. It's the season to get together with friends, family... and even teammates!

To help you celebrate this fine season, ActiveState is offering great Season of Giving pricing on all 5-packs for teams--and a special t-shirt offer.

The ActiveState online store and customer account functions are moving from C# to an open source dynamic languages based solution.

While we transition data in the systems, online purchases and customer accounts will be unavailable on Tuesday, August 25, from approximately 5pm but should be back by 8pm Pacific Time.

We appreciate your patience.

Once we are live again, if you find a problem or would like to provide feedback, please email website-feedback [at] activestate [dot] com">website-feedback [at] activestate [dot] com.

Thank you.

Announcing...the ActiveState poetry contest.

Write a poem about your favorite ActiveState product and you could win an ActiveState t-shirt!
We're accepting entries until August 31st.

Leave us a comment with your entry or email it to marcom [at] activestate [dot] com (subject: ActiveState poem) with "ActiveState poem" in the subject line.

Here's what one Komodo fan wrote:

Coding with Komodo really rocks,
Coding with Komodo really rocks,

It's spiffy, efficient, it'll knock off your socks,

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We released Komodo 5.2.0 alpha 1 today! Get it here:
www.activestate.com/komodo-ide/downloads/

This is the first release of Komodo 5.2 on the way to a planned final release around mid-September. The most significant changes in Komodo 5.2 are:

• increased performance and stability
• customizable sub-language background colors
• view HTML source by dragging and dropping a URL
• PHP 5.3 support

A lot of enhancements and bug fixes have gone into this Komodo release.