Release the L♥VE!20110214080000
Release the L♥VE!
Jeff HobbsLast Updated: July 22, 2019activeperl, activepython, activetcl, dynamic languages
Who doesn’t love fresh bits? We’ve been working hard to bring you a Valentine’s day treat. Today, we have a full set of new distribu...
5 Python Pluses for the Enterprise20100705172118
5 Python Pluses for the Enterprise
Jeff HobbsLast Updated: July 4, 2019enterprise, python, python growing, python programming
You might not find quite as many experienced Python developers as .Net or Java folks, in part because Python is younger than Java and hasn’t had...
Open Source and Adult Content with Perl and PHP – Oh My!20100618171741
Open Source and Adult Content with Perl and PHP – Oh My!
Jeff HobbsLast Updated: March 13, 2019adult content, open source, perl, php, porn, scaling
Regardless of your personal feelings toward Internet porn, the sysadmins overseeing adult websites know a thing or two about scripting and scalability...
What managers don’t know about their developers using open source components20100129231647
What managers don’t know about their developers using open source components
Jeff HobbsLast Updated: July 5, 2019open source, open source licensing, perl, python, ruby
In Jeffrey Hammond’s recent article on Dr. Dobb’s (What Developers Think, January 16, 2010), his survey results highlighted something we h...
Getting Started with Project Wikis20090601194342
Getting Started with Project Wikis
Jeff HobbsLast Updated: November 5, 2018project management, software development tools
One of the best tools for teamwork to come out of web 2.0 has been the venerable wiki. Few things speak more to staying in the flow of one’s work than...
New PPM servers in full swing20081107233100
New PPM servers in full swing
Jeff HobbsLast Updated: November 5, 2018ppm
Following up on our previous post about rebuilding the ppm build server backend, we finally have flipped the switch for all PPM 4 clients (all ActiveP...
Perl Dev Kit gets ActivePerl 5.10 support20080207021324
Perl Dev Kit gets ActivePerl 5.10 support
Jeff HobbsLast Updated: July 19, 2019perl dev kit
ActiveState updated Perl Dev Kit (PDK) to 7.1, to add support for Perl 5.10 (in addition to the 5.6 and 5.8 support). PDK is the essential tool suite ...