Dave Rolsky to Lead 4 Speaking Sessions at The Perl Conference 201820180517170436
Dave Rolsky to Lead 4 Speaking Sessions at The Perl Conference 2018
The Perl Conference is taking place this summer from Sunday, June 17 through Friday, June 22. I’ll be there presenting not just one, but four differ...
Open Source Languages Run Enterprise Software20180308043235
Open Source Languages Run Enterprise Software
March 8, 2018enterprise software, go, open source, open source code, Open source language, perl, python, ruby0 comments
I joined ActiveState last year. It’s the first time I’m working directly in the open source space. And along with learning a lot, it’s been rema...
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 ...
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...
Top 10 Blogs from 201620161228060000
Top 10 Blogs from 2016
It’s my favourite blog of the year – where I list the articles I found the most memorable, interesting, and educational from 2016 (in my humbl...
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....
What’s speed got to do with it?20160809170000
What’s speed got to do with it?
“Interpreted languages are slow” is a common myth. Interpreted languages provide an increase in development speed but trade it off for a decrease ...
What’s Up Perl?20160721183714
What’s Up Perl?
Recently, Tom Radcliffe (ActiveState Director of Engineering) and Jason McIntosh, co-author of the O’Reily book “Perl & XML,” did a webi...
The Perl Paradox20160705232107
The Perl Paradox
Our Director of Engineering, Tom Radcliffe, recently presented a talk at YAPC North America titled “The Perl Paradox.” This concept refers to the ...