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ActiveState makes the SD Times 100 again in 2009
For the second year running, the Software Development (SD) Times recognizes ActiveState as a leader in tools and IDEs for enterprise developers. Each year the ...
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Freedom vs. Cost Savings
Another gem from Matt Asay on his blog The Open Road today. He discusses how for a long time the message behind why companies should ...
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Spectacular Summer Savings on ActiveState Developer Tools
Summer’s here and what better way to celebrate than with a sale? We’re offering $50 off all new license purchases! Part of a small team? ...
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Getting Started with Project Wikis
One of the best tools for teamwork to come out of web 2.0 has been the venerable wiki. Few things speak more to staying in ...
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How to install MySQL-python 1.2.3c1 on Mac OS X
Introduction Just a quick note on getting MySQL-python (aka import MySQLdb) 1.2.3c1 (the current latest version) to build and install on Mac OS X, because I ...
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Critical systems using Perl, Tcl or Python? Time to think about support.
A recent blog post by Matt Asay caught our eye here at ActiveState: “Recent survey data compiled by Forrester Consulting on behalf of information systems ...
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Better local development with VMs
I just downloaded and installed Ubuntu Server 9.04 in a VM Image strictly for the purposes of setting up a simple local dev environment on ...
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Komodo 5.1.3 released
We (ActiveState) released Komodo 5.1.3 today. Get it here: Komodo IDE Komodo Edit Or, if you are currently running any previous Komodo 5, click “Help ...
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Komodo macros as pure magic code injection
Back when we released ( I think it was? ) Komodo 3.0, David Ascher spent a few weeks scratching his chin and writing some docs ...
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Komodo: about.com’s Webdesign pick of the week
Nice to see Komodo Edit get about.com’s Webdesign/HTML blog’s pick of the week: This week I took a look at the latest version of my ...
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Komodo 5.1.1: fixes, path mode in Fast Open dialog, Perl::Critic integration
We (ActiveState) released Komodo 5.1.1 today. Get it here. Or, if you are currently running Komodo 5.1.0, click “Help > Check for Updates…”. This is ...
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How to Unpickle Komodo’s “xmlc” files
A customer wondered how to get at the state information Komodo saves between sessions. There are three files in saved in the profile directory: prefs.xml ...
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