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The Developer’s Guide: Open Source Software License Comparison
Open source licenses come in different types (i.e., copyleft vs permissive), flavors (i.e., industry standard vs specific to a single…
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ActiveState Announces Winners of its 2019 Annual Developer Survey for Open Source Runtime Pains
For the second year in a row we ran a developer survey to better understand open source runtime pains. The…
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How to Make Python Dependencies Manageable
Cross-package dependencies are a nightmare. Every Readme says “install packages X, Y and Z” but they rarely mention the versions…
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Open Source Software Licenses Explained
Open source licensing should be easier to deal with now that open source has become the de facto way we…
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Help us Build the Future for Open Source Languages
At ActiveState we’re steeped in open source languages, we’ve been build engineering them for over twenty years. And we’ve seen…
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Top Open Source Language Trends for 2019
At ActiveState, we recently put on a Webinar to present the Top 5 Trends in Open Source Languages as well…
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Making Coding more Accessible to Non-Devs
Taught vs Self Taught When I was just starting out in software, I found that many of my peers often…
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Software Estimation: Should it Include Build Engineering?
Building Dev Environments Velocity as a measure of developer output is a well known metric for agile teams. Maximizing developer…
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Report: Developers are Struggling with Open Source
This article was originally published in SDTimes. Developers say that replicating environments and maintaining proper information about the quality of open-source software…
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Q&A with ActiveState: on the Challenges of Working with Open Source Languages, the Future of OSS, and ActiveState’s New SaaS Platform
This article was originally published in SourceForge. Today, knowledge-centric organizations have come to recognize the value of open source languages…
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How to Safely Navigate the World of Open Source Languages
This article was originally published on Enterprise CIO. Opensource.com notes that, due to their widespread use, open source languages will…
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