ActiveState Journal

VANCOUVER, BC -- (Marketwire) -- 03/16/10 -- ActiveState, the dynamic languages company, today announced the results of an informal survey of enterprise software architects and developers that found developers benefit greatly from dynamic languages to get products to market faster and at a reduced cost. The poll was conducted on March 10, 2010 during a webinar given by Larry Backman, VP of Quality Assurance, Computer Associates and Jeff Hobbs, Director of Engineering for ActiveState. More than 75 enterprise software developers and architects participated in the poll. Among the highlights of the poll, developers said: -- There is more pressure to be fast and cheap than good: A much higher percentage of developers feel that the single largest pressure comes from delivering products to market faster (29.4%) or at a reduced cost (23.5%) than to reduce the number of bug... (more)

Perl 5.12 Completed, ActiveState Releases Commercial-Grade ActivePerl 5.12 With Perl Package Management, Tools and Support

VANCOUVER, BC -- (Marketwire) -- 04/13/10 -- ActiveState, the dynamic languages company, today announced the launch of business and community editions of ActivePerl 5.12, the day after the release of Perl 5.12 by the Perl Foundation. "Perl is a fantastic tool for everything from the smallest systems administration tasks to the largest web applications," said Jesse Vincent, Perl 5 Pumpking and President of Best Practical Solutions. "Over the past few decades, it's been ported to more platforms than just about any other language implementation. Perl 5.12 builds on that legacy, add... (more)

SYS-CON White Paper: Improving Software Development Success with ActivePerl

It is easy to sympathize with software developers trying to build large, complex enterprise software solutions. At the start, a software development project is like a smooth sheet of ice: full of possibility. It's a clean slate, free from architectural flaws, bugs, and broken code. But once the first line of code is written, complexities begin to layer one on top of the other. No matter what the end product, many of the same stumbling blocks come up time and again and get in the way of project success. Some classic pitfalls include time restraints, insufficient in-house resources... (more)

ActiveState Introduces Free AJAX Supported Multi-Language Editor

(SYS-CON Media) - ActiveState Software, provider of development tools and services for dynamic languages, announced the release of Komodo Edit 4.0, a free editor based on the award-winning Komodo IDE. Komodo Edit 4.0 delivers powerful editing capabilities for dynamic languages including Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and Tcl, plus support for browser-side code including JavaScript, CSS, HTML and XML. Background syntax checking and syntax coloring catch errors immediately, while AutoComplete and CallTips guide developers as they code. It is available now on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. ... (more)

ActiveState Introduces Komodo IDE 4.0

ActiveState Software Inc., the leading provider of development tools and services for dynamic languages, has announced the release of Komodo Edit 4.0, a free editor based on the award-winning Komodo IDE. Komodo IDE 4.0, the first unified workspace for end-to-end development of dynamic web applications. A rich feature set for client-side AJAX languages, coupled with advanced support for dynamic languages, enables developers to quickly and easily create robust web apps. Komodo IDE 4.0 features comprehensive editing and debugging, plus intelligent tools for regular expressions, team d... (more)