Open source Ruby, Python hit rocky ground at Microsoft
Microsoft's open source IronRuby and IronPython projects are shrouded in a dubious future as the last of the full-time IronRuby developers departed the company last month.
View ArticleActiveState prepares Python for databases
ActiveState has updated its distributions of the Python programming language so that they provide developers easier access to databases, as well as new ways of creating GUIs (Graphical User...
View Article7 programming languages on the rise
In the world of enterprise programming, the mainstream is broad and deep. Code is written predominantly in one of a few major languages. For some shops, this means Java; for others, it's C# or PHP....
View ArticlePython 3.2 eases concurrent development
The next version of the widely used Python programming language will offer greater support for writing multithreaded applications, a challenging duty for an increasing number of programmers in this age...
View ArticleLocal students hack up Facebook alternatives
A group of high school students will today unveil four alternatives to the popular Facebook social networking service as part of a Sydney University summer school projects, in part sponsored by Google.
View ArticleMelbourne hacker releases open source Django apps
To fill a requirement for flexible content and management and e-commerce, Melbourne-based software engineer Stephen McDonald has released two open source projects built with the Django framework.
View ArticleNeed open source Django CRM? Cuddle up to Koalix
CRM is an application with a long history of open source development, with many projects written the PHP language. However, a Swiss developer has released one of the first open source CRM systems...
View ArticlePython vs. PHP: Choosing your next project's language
PHP and Python are two of the world's most popular Web programming languages at the moment, and naturally both have distinct advantages and disadvantages.
View ArticleObjective-C, C#, D language: Winners in programming popularity
Objective-C, used for developing Apple iOS applications, climbs to No. 6 in the monthly Tiobe Programming Community index for most popular programming languages, after being ranked at number 8 a year...
View ArticleHeroku, Engine Yard bolster language support on clouds
Platform-as-a-service cloud vendors Heroku and Engine Yard have been branching out to accommodate more developers by backing more programming languages.
View ArticleXXE attacks and disabling remote entity loading when using Python's sax library
If you need to work with XML in Python, there are a couple of libraries you can use. One of the more popular one is the xml.sax library which is included in the default installation of Python.
View ArticleThe dark side of the beloved Python
The schism between Python 2.x and 3.x and other deficiencies frustrate its enthusiastic developer community
View ArticleReview: 4 killer cloud IDEs
Surprisingly beefy, browser-based JSFiddle, Icenium, Cloud9, and Codenvy stretch from client-side JavaScript to server-side Java and Web stacks
View ArticlePython-only no more, IPython becomes Jupyter
Julia, R, Scala, JavaScript, Matlab, and Bash are among the supported languages for the recomposed IPython
View ArticlePython 3 gains a big helping of library support
Python 3 will overtake Python 2 in library support in a few months, according to Microsoft's statistical analysis
View ArticleQ&A: Guido van Rossum on Python's next steps
Mobile use, support via WebAssembly, and many imaginative options are in in the works for the popular object-oriented language
View ArticleWhat’s the buzz: Python gorges on tools and libraries
The BeeWare project offers tools and libraries offered for mobile and web development
View ArticleLinkedIn's Gradle plug-in brings build automation to Python
The {py}gradle plugin can put Python and Java on the same page when it comes to software builds
View Article3 new programming languages: What their creators say
Developers of emerging programming languages shed light on the urge to create new tools
View ArticlePython 3.6 is packed with goodness
More async support, more type-hinting power, more speed, and more efficient memory usage top a long list of useful additions to Python
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