Rejoice! ActivePerl 5.26 Released, Plus 5.24 and 5.22 Updates20170918130146
Rejoice! ActivePerl 5.26 Released, Plus 5.24 and 5.22 Updates
September 18, 2017activeperl, activeperl 5.22, ActivePerl 5.24, activeperl 5.26, cpan, perl, perl 5.22, perl 5.24, perl 5.260 comments
I’m pleased to announce that we have released today, not only the latest and greatest Perl 5 version to date, 5.26, but we have updates to 5.24 and ...
Upgrading Perl to a Modern Version: the ActiveState Guide20170523161500
Upgrading Perl to a Modern Version: the ActiveState Guide
Many organizations stopped upgrading Perl after the release of 5.8.8 or 5.10.1, about 8 to 11 years ago. At that point in history, major releases of P...
Good Things Come in Managed Packages20170516170432
Good Things Come in Managed Packages
May 16, 2017activego, activelua, activenode, activeperl, activepython, activetcl, ActuveRuby, godep, golang, lua, LuaRocks, node, nodejs, npm, package management, package manager, perl, pip, ppm, pypi, pypm, python, ruby0 comments
Package management is a significant issue in every programming language and the number of packages associated with each language is astonishing. Pytho...
ActivePerl 5.24.1 and 5.22.320170117210509
ActivePerl 5.24.1 and 5.22.3
January 17, 2017activeperl, activeperl 5.22.3, activeperl 5.24.1, CVE-2016-1238, jeff rouse, perl 5.22.3, perl 5.24.10 comments
Steve Hay, a member of the Perl 5 core team, mentions in the community release announcementthat “Perl 5.24.1 represents approximately 8 months of d...
On the Road to Unification: ActiveState Languages + Komodo IDE20170105180000
On the Road to Unification: ActiveState Languages + Komodo IDE
January 5, 2017activego, activelua, activenode, activeperl, activepython, activeruby, activestate, activetcl, language distributions, open source0 comments
Last year we talked about unifying our product stack, so I was very excited about our announcement today–we are bundling Komodo IDE with our Act...
Deconstructing Open Source Language Licensing20161213183000
Deconstructing Open Source Language Licensing
December 13, 2016activeperl, activepython, activetlc, BSD, copyleft, GPL, Jennifer, LGPL, licensing, open source, open source licensing, permissive licensing0 comments
With the majority of companies using open source, it’s important to understand the underlying licenses associated with the software and projects...
Use It or Lose It – Your 2016 Budget20161114180000
Use It or Lose It – Your 2016 Budget
If you’re like many of us (and many of our customers), you, your manager, or your finance team set your budget at the end of the year for the next y...
Tipping Point in Open Source Security20161019170000
Tipping Point in Open Source Security
In the past couple of years we have seen some of the biggest security issues in open source, including Heartbleed, Shellshock, and POODLE. More recent...
ActiveState 2016 Open Source Survey20160929170000
ActiveState 2016 Open Source Survey
September 29, 2016activeperl, activepythong, activetcl, agile, cloud technologies, infographic, java, javascript, open source, open source survey, perl, php, python, software methodologies, survey0 comments
We had a tremendous response to our first open source survey and on behalf of ActiveState I’d like to thank the 867 people who gave their time and t...
Perl: Language, Community, and the Future20160915173057
Perl: Language, Community, and the Future
I’ve been talking a lot about Perl this summer but wanted to tackle one more topic that is very important to me and ActiveState: the Perl Community....