The former second-class citizens of the programming world have leaped to the fore, changing the face of enterprise software development. With the rise of Web 2.0, scripting languages (also called ...

Dear Final Debug: I’m not a tech person, but I have to deal with tech people every day in my job, so I have to understand what they’re talking about. In a meeting recently, they were all talking about ...

The following is a guest post written by Jeff Hobbs (pictured), director of engineering for a company called ActiveState. ActiveState offers developer tools for writing, managing and distributing ...

In the first installment of this series, we mentioned three books as references for the use of the option database in its specific bindings to the Perl, Python, and Tcl languages (see the Resources ...

If Project Builder can throw AppleScript behind a cocoa interface, how hard would it be to add other scripting languages to what PB can do?

ActiveState, a company that sells programming tools for open-source languages such as Perl, Python, Tcl and PHP, has named two new board members: George Reznik, vice president of finance at Pivotal ...