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Disinformation Is An Open Source Problem
The Oxford dictionary defines disinformation as “false information which is intended to mislead.” That simple definition seems to understate the problem, given the fact that ...
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Pay Attention to Your Open Source Software Licenses
Two times in June this year, ActiveState hosted legal webinars from expert open source lawyers to discuss some of the main legal issues surrounding open ...
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ActivePython 2.6.5.14 released, fixing the debug bug
We just released ActivePython 2.6.5.14 (download it here, release notes here). One fun change in this build is a fix for the debug bug: a ...
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ActivePython 2.7 released – and what 2.7 means for Python’s future
2021 Update – Are you still dependent on Python 2 for your applications? Then you must know that meeting security and compliance standards is a ...
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5 Python Pluses for the Enterprise
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 ...
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Where Content Meets Code: U.S. SEC Mandates, Python and Financial Content
Ron Miller just posted my guest post on financial content, the Dodd-Frank Financial Regulatory Reform bill, and the recent US SEC proposals on using Python ...
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How to Install ActivePython & Matplotlib for Finance Screencast
ActivePython on the ActiveState Platform now ships with Numpy, SciPy and matplotlib – three fundamental python packages for financial and scientific computing. With the recent ...
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Built for Speed: ActivePython, Intel® MKL and Mathematical Computing
Power your science, engineering and financial applications with ActivePython Business Edition. Number-crunching extremely large amounts of data in mathematical computing applications takes significant computing resources. ...
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Saving the world from economic collapse with Python?
Today we announced that ActivePython now includes NumPy,SciPy, and matplotlib in ActivePython Business, Enterprise, and OEM Editions. What does this mean for you as a ...
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Must-Have Python Packages for Finance
Update May 17, 2017: Python packages NumPy, SciPy, and Matplotlib are now optimized with Intel’s Math Kernel Library for better performance in the current release of ...
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Setting up IIS for ActivePerl
In the good old days, you could turn on IIS 5, install ActivePerl, and get a working integrated setup for your Windows systems right out ...
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Open Source and Adult Content with Perl and PHP – Oh My!
Regardless of your personal feelings toward Internet porn, the sysadmins overseeing adult websites know a thing or two about scripting and scalability. For example, keep ...
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Yet Another Book Review of Intellectual Property and Open Source
No, we aren’t rerunning blog posts during the summer. We published a review by Romuald Restout of this book last January. It’s worth reading, but ...
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