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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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ActiveState an SD Times Top 100
If you are working with Firefox extensions (or Mozilla derivate) and ever used a XBL binding, you soon find there are certain JavaScript API calls ...
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Numara Software Success Story
“The code is solid and the quality is extremely high. We’re a very happy ActiveState customer.” – Mark Krieger, VP of Product Development, Numara Software ...
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jssh replacement? SD Connector
Quite a long time ago I made much ado about Snapdragon, a project to integrate Firefox development tools (e.g.Firebug) with Komodo (or other editors/IDEs). Unfortunately ...
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ActivePerl 5.10.0.1003 and a Trick Question
Q:What’s better than May Long Weekend? A: Nothing, eh! Well, I suppose the new release of ActivePerl comes pretty darn close. That’s right! We’ve just ...
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Number of ActivePython downloads EXPLODED!
Exploded in a good way (thankfully). Our ActivePython downloads tripled last month, which is pretty awesome! We are obviously providing some useful stuff for Python ...
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Success is…
So often in life, defining success is difficult. Is it 10 times ROI? Is it a shiny new bank account after an acquisition or IPO? ...
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Article Alert: Adding Test Harnesses to Komodo
Once again, I’m dealing with the too-many-blogs problem by writing once, and pointing many times. I’ve published an article at the ActiveState community site on writing ...
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Another day, another baby dragon born
I’m always happy to announce the birth of a new version of Komodo! 4.4 Alpha 1 is up on our download servers. You can find ...
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We support Oracle® Enterprise Linux
We are happy to announce that ActiveState now supports Oracle® Enterprise Linux – yup, all ActiveState products have been tested for compatibility. Oracle customers can ...
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JavaScript ‘re.findall’ workalike
Having done a lot of low-complexity JavaScript and a lot of regex work in back-end languages like PHP and Python, I found myself stumped again ...
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Komodo does it all: Google App Engine
So many APIs, so little time. From early on, one of our major goals with Komodo was to make it easily extensible from a variety ...
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TDK 4.1 released
Even with our fearless leader at Toolapalooza this week, we have gone ahead and released TDK 4.1. This version includes some great new features and ...
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