The appeal of ActivePerl and ActivePython is obvious when you're running business applications in an exclusively Windows environment. There are other distributions of Perl and Python available for Windows, but none with a vendor like ActiveState backing them up.
Following on the announcement of our partnership with Rogue Wave a couple of weeks ago, we're following up with a free webinar for all you Pythonistas and financial engineers to learn more the power in this new offering. If you're developing financial or scientific applications, learn how to use Python, PyIMSL, and Rogue's IMSL Libraries to embed mathematical and statistical functions in your applications.
When you create a pure Python sandbox using virtualenv --no-site-packages the global site-packages directory is rightfully not included ... however, this poses a challenge in accessing non-trivial packages from within the virtualenv.
Some of the challenges of getting started in cloud computing is starting with an empty instance, learning the Amazon cloud services API, making scalable architectural decisions, and building a complete web stack from scratch.
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When you create a pure 
Take advantage of Amazon's Free Usage Tier with our new 10G ActivePython Ubuntu AMI
Some of the challenges of getting started in cloud computing is starting with an empty instance, learning the Amazon cloud services API, making scalable architectural decisions, and building a complete web stack from scratch.
