ActiveRuby Beta Released! Build Great Web Apps on Windows20170727130006

ActiveRuby Beta Released! Build Great Web Apps on Windows

Jeff RouseLast Updated: July 11, 2019activeruby, beta, byebug, gems, puma, rails, ruby, ruby on rails, rubygems
Some of the world’s largest companies use Ruby as the underlying technology to drive value for their customers. Twitter, Bloomberg, AirBnB, Shopify an...
Introducing ActiveGo – Available Now for Linux, Mac and Windows20170620120043

Introducing ActiveGo – Available Now for Linux, Mac and Windows

Jeff RouseLast Updated: March 16, 2022activego, beta, crypto, go, golang, image, komodo, oauth2
I'm very happy to announce that today we have released ActiveGo--ActiveState's distribution of open source Go (Golang). Some of the world’s largest an...
ActivePython Gets a Boost with the Intel Math Kernel Library20170518120000

ActivePython Gets a Boost with the Intel Math Kernel Library

Jeff RouseLast Updated: July 11, 2019activepython 2.7, activepython 3.5, intel math kernel library, intel mkl, jupyter, numpy, python 2.7, python 3.5, scipy
The ActiveState team has been relentlessly improving our Python distribution each month in 2017, and May is no exception! This time around we’ve...
Good Things Come in Managed Packages20170516170432

Good Things Come in Managed Packages

Jeff RouseLast Updated: July 15, 2019activego, activelua, activenode, activeperl, activepython, activetcl, ActuveRuby, godep, golang, lua, LuaRocks, node, nodejs, npm, package management, package manager, perl, pip, ppm, pypi, pypm, python, ruby
Package management is a significant issue in every programming language and the number of packages associated with each language is astonishing. Pytho...
What is Test-Driven Development (TDD)?20170420170000

What is Test-Driven Development (TDD)?

Jeff RouseLast Updated: July 24, 2019activepython, pytest, python, python nose, python test coverage, python test packages
Test-driven development (TDD) is not new but it certainly is in vogue. It was originally invented by Kent Beck as part of his extreme programming meth...
Our Biggest ActivePython Release EVER20170404170000

Our Biggest ActivePython Release EVER

Jeff RouseLast Updated: July 19, 20193.5, activepython, activepython 2.7, activepython 3.5, jeff rouse, python, python 2.7
Today is a great day for ActivePython users. We’ve just included another 200 packages in our distribution making it the most comprehensive relea...
ActiveGo Beta is Available20170321170000

ActiveGo Beta is Available

Jeff RouseLast Updated: July 12, 2019activego, ActiveGo Beta, big data support, cloud native, go, golang, jeff rouse, microservices
Some of the world’s largest and most innovative companies have turned to Go to be the underlying technology to drive value for their customers. Netfli...
Welcome Go 1.820170221180513

Welcome Go 1.8

Jeff RouseLast Updated: July 24, 2019activego, go, go 1.8, go meetup, golang, golang vancouver
Last week I had the pleasure of attending the GolangVan Meetup, the Vancouver group devoted to all things Go. Hootsuite graciously hosted 44 gophers t...
ActivePython 3.5.3 Release20170216182613

ActivePython 3.5.3 Release

Jeff RouseLast Updated: July 11, 2019activepython, activepython 3, activepython 3.5.3, python, python 3.5, python 3.5.3
The Python releases have come at a very steady pace over the last two months, consistently moving the language ahead. Recently, the Python Software Fo...
ActiveTcl 8.6.6 Released20170201180000

ActiveTcl 8.6.6 Released

Jeff RouseLast Updated: July 11, 2019activetcl, ActiveTcl 8.6, ActiveTcl 8.6.6, jeff rouse, sqlite3
UPDATE Apr 13, 2017: ActiveTcl 8.6.6 is now available on macOS. UPDATE Feb 7, 2017: ActiveTcl 8.6.6 is now available on Windows. The Tcl Core Team has...