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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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Top 10 Quotes from OSBC 2010 and What It Means for Open Source Developers
After meeting with and sitting in on speaker sessions at OSBC 2010, here are the top quotes we heard – from speakers, audience participants, and ...
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50% of developers concerned about open source redistribution rights
A couple of months ago, we commented on the Dr. Dobbs article What Developers Think, written by Jeffrey Hammond, Research Analyst for Forrester Research which ...
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The top ten list of productivity boosters for programmers
A very, very useful question came up on stackoverflow a couple of weeks ago: “As a programmer what single discovery has given you the greatest ...
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New Poll Results: Top 2 Reasons Enterprise Developers Use Dynamic Languages
Today we are announcing the results of an informal survey of enterprise software architects and developers that found developers benefit greatly from dynamic languages for ...
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Mission-critical vs. Business-critical applications: HUH?
As a vendor offering technology and support on top of something that is already free in the open source community, like other vendors in this ...
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The Best Guide to Programming with Perl
We reviewed Beautiful Code by Wilson and Oram earlier this week, so we wanted to do a review of a book that we recommend specifically ...
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Code and Design Best Practices: “Beautiful Code” by O’Reilly
Reading the O’Reilly book Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think by Greg Wilson and Andy Oram, you’ll delve into the minds of some ...
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Python Crypto: State of the Art (Part 2)
Let’s take a closer look at some of the modules mentioned in the previous article. M2Crypto: A Python crypto and SSL toolkit Official description M2Crypto ...
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Over 60% using dynamic languages in mission-critical applications
In our blog post a few weeks ago entitled “What Managers don’t know about their developers using open source components“, we discussed how developers may ...
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Python Crypto: State of the Art (Part 1)
There is a lot of interest in doing cryptography using Python these days which has resulted in quite an impressive number of cryptography related Python ...
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ActiveState Launches New and Improved Code Site
We are super excited to unveil the new code.activestate.com at PyCon today. We’ve implemented tons of new improvements and sharpened code.activestate.com to make it the ...
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The cost of open source software
Much has been said in our inner open source circles about the cost of open source. But now, people outside the inner circle are understanding ...
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