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Stackato Gets Some Sugar

By Troy Topnik, October 1, 2012

SugarCRM on Stackato Sugar CRM is industry-leading customer relationship management software. We've had it working well on Stackato since before 1.0 was released, but we've held off on putting it in Stackato's App Store till we could get a smooth install experience.

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Come on! Work with me here!

By Troy Topnik, September 25, 2012

The ActiveState Editor ActiveState has posted a few jobs on our Careers page recently, and one in particular has caused some of my friends in the software world to ask me: "Isn't that what you do?"

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#CloudFail: Six pitfalls to avoid with enterprise cloud deployment

By Navrup Johal, September 24, 2012

gigaom

Recently, our CEO Bart Copeland penned an article for GigaOM regarding his thoughts on cloud and paas. Here's an excerpt:

Done right, the enterprise cloud reduces IT overhead, delivers scalability, fosters innovation, and improves the way enterprises work. And that can save time and money.

Why I joined ActiveState

By John Wetherill, September 20, 2012

During my software development career I've been fortunate to work with dozens of bleeding edge, innovative, and very cool technologies. And as much as I enjoy the end results of software creation, I always find myself gravitating toward the development process itself. I have a keen interest in the tools, processes, languages, frameworks, and systems that improve developer productivity and overall software success. I love elegance, simplicity, and automation, and I'm always on the lookout for developer tools and processes that exhibit these traits.

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Faster Perl Deployment on Stackato with PPM

By Troy Topnik, September 13, 2012

PERL! taptaptap

I've never had the mental wiring to really master regular expressions, so I usually need to lean on some sort of Rx testing or debugging tool to get them to work the way I want.

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How to Solve the Enterprise Mobile BYOD Conundrum: Use Private Cloud to Go Mobile…Securely

By Diane Mueller, September 12, 2012

Enterprise IT leadership faces the Mobile BYOD Conundrum every day: How to deliver enterprise applications securely to a disparate workforce demanding corporate data access via an ever-changing array of individual mobile platforms?

Enabled in part by the flexible power of cloud computing, enterprise stakeholders now expect to engage with their enterprise cloud applications in the same way they access their consumer cloud applications…on their own devices, whether iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows Phone 7, BlackBerry, you name it.

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Rocking it with Stackato and Websockets

By Jamie Paton, September 7, 2012
Not a WebSocket

With the release of Stackato v2.2 a few weeks ago, there is now experimental support for WebSockets for your applications.

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Stackato Learns To TAP!

By Navrup Johal, September 5, 2012

Stackato Joins VMWare TAP ProgramWe are delighted to announce ActiveState and Stackato's inclusion in the VMWare Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) program. 

Learning Python with Udacity and Komodo Edit

By Carey Hoffman, September 5, 2012

Using Komodo Edit for Udacity Python course

I recently got a support call from a fellow down in SoCal. He had just started an online course to learn Python. Immediately my mind jumped to Udacity.com, which is the course I'm also taking. Reasonable pricing!

Claim your ActiveState Digital Swag Bag Here!

By Diane Mueller, August 27, 2012

Green Digitial Swag from #ActiveStateWhy Digital Swag?
Instead of shipping some wasteful object d’swag that will catch your attention at the conference and lure you to our booth, we decided to put together a page of “Digital Swag” aka free trials of our product and of our partner’s products on one page that you can share, tweet, and bookmark for future use!

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