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The Top 10 Programming Tasks That Perl Is Used For
Suggestions, utilities and examples for the top ten common tasks you can accomplish more easily with Perl today.
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The Top 7 Habits Of Productive Developers
Developers have been working remotely for a few decades. They had the luxury of having the house to themselves and focus on their coding while ...
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The Top 10 Python Frameworks for Web Development
Python's 10 best web frameworks, including Pros and Cons, and guidance as to which ones best suit what kinds of projects.
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Why Use Custom Perl Environments? For Security, Compliance & Portability.
Custom Perl environments that contain the minimum set of dependencies for a project reduce vulnerability incidents, improve license compliance, and lower maintenance costs.
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10 Movies That Got Programming Right – List Curated by the Developers at ActiveState
Most developers are used to working from home, but with social distancing still in place, staying at home can get monotonous. Some of our company ...
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Universal Package Managers? Meet the State Tool
Written in Go, the State Tool is designed to (ultimately) be a cross-platform, universal package manager for dynamic open source language runtimes.
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Dependency Resolution Optimization – ActiveState’s Approach
Wouldn't you like your language ecosystem to manage dependencies for you down to the C library, external tooling and conditional dependency (OS/CPU) level? Here's how.
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Reducing Cost & Complexity for Azure Pipelines CI/CD
Learn how to make your Azure Pipelines CI/CD jobs simpler and more reliable using ActiveState's pre-built language runtimes.
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Top 10 Tasks to Automate with Python
This post features simple scripts that can help automate many of your common dev and admin tasks.
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Predictive Modeling of Air Quality using Python
Python is a powerful tool for building predictive models. Learn how to predict air quality using just a few key Python packages.
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BERT vs ERNIE: The Natural Language Processing Revolution
Natural Language Processing (NLP) being revolutionized by Google's BERT and Baidu's ERNIE language frameworks. But which is better for what kinds of NLP tasks? We ...
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How to Set Up CI/CD for Python Builds on GitLab
Learn how to create a GitLab CI/CD pipeline while eliminating "works on my machine" issues with the ActiveState Platform.
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