State Tool Eliminates the Readme20190725103904
State Tool Eliminates the Readme
July 25, 2019activestate platform, automation, perl, python, state tool
ActiveState's new Command Line Interface (CLI) for the ActiveState Platform, the State Tool, lets you reduce the setup of your dev and test systems to...
Text Manipulation with Perl20190711090039
Text Manipulation with Perl
July 11, 2019perl, perl programming, regex, text manipulation
Perl has often been called the swiss army knife of scripting languages, but one of the most common use cases is string manipulation. After all, it’s r...
Dave Rolsky to Lead 4 Speaking Sessions at The Perl Conference 201820180517170436
Dave Rolsky to Lead 4 Speaking Sessions at The Perl Conference 2018
May 17, 2018conference, dzil, go, moose, perl
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 differen...
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, ruby
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 remarkable...
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 5.26
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 5....
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, ruby
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
December 28, 2016open source, perl, python
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 humble ...
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, survey
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 tho...
Perl: Language, Community, and the Future20160915173057
Perl: Language, Community, and the Future
September 15, 2016activeperl, community, jason mcintosh, perl
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. E...
What’s speed got to do with it?20160809170000
What’s speed got to do with it?
August 9, 2016activeperl, fortran, golang, language speed, perl, regex, swift
“Interpreted languages are slow” is a common myth. Interpreted languages provide an increase in development speed but trade it off for a decrease in r...