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Mission-Critical vs. Business-Critical Applications: Huh?
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
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
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)
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)
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.www.activestate.com at PyCon today. We’ve implemented tons of new improvements and sharpened code.www.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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Better interactive shell for ActivePython
ActivePython users on Linux or MacOSX may have noted that the arrow keys do not work properly in the command-line Python shell. When you hit ...
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ActivePython
Empower Your Team with Python Enable faster development with a complete Python distribution. Download ActivePython Start developing for free on Windows, macOS and Linux   ...
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ActivePerl
Enable Your Enterprise with Perl Support your mission-critical applications with the most trusted Perl distribution. Download ActivePerl Start developing for free on Windows, macOS and ...
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Tcl Solutions
Millions of developers trust Tcl for rapid prototyping, scripted applications, GUIs, FPGA, EDA, semiconductors, testing and more. Tcl runs in numerous Cisco routers and in ...
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