According to the survey done by O'Reilly, Javascript and PHP continues to lead in the book sales, while Python and actionscript are in the last position. There is a considerable rise in the book sales for Ruby as they have now passed sales for Perl books as well (they passed book sales for Python in the last year). Book sales statistics shows the dominance of Javascript and PHP, does that indicate the popularity?
Alexander Limi, the main person behind the Plone, recently announced that he has accepted a job offer from Google. He will join their user interface design team. Google has already supported many open source projects through Summer of Code program. It will be interesting to see their approach towards Plone. I believe that its a great news for Plone and only good can come from this.
Very recently Nokia released the source code for its Python for S60 Platform software package to the global community of open-source software developers, will it affect on the developers choice of programming language?, will Python succed in attracting the developers?
AJAX is the buzz word of the moment, Is it a fad? Yes it is, if you don’t know what it is. This technology has been around for years and used in some very high profile web applications but Search Giant "Google" made it popular.
Infosys says that "Customers around the world have discovered our business model and are forcing legacy providers to provide the value that we do. That is why they are also coming to India." "We deliver services “better, faster and cheaper".
Developers now have a choice to use Python language for mobile application development on Nokia Series 60 phones.Nokia's Python package allows Python developers to create applications for the Nokia device. The new version 1.2 for Series 60 offers support for 2D Graphics and full-screen applications, Camera, Screenshot, Contacts and Calendar APIs, sound recording and playback, telephone dialing and rich text display.
According to Brian, Python programs run faster than Ruby. He tried to implement the Edit-Distance algorithm in three different ways in both Python and in Ruby and he conclude that the python is very much faster than Ruby. Lets see the comparison.
Think of open source and most of us have visions of developers doing selfless work in their free time and contributing only because of their passion for the technology and a burning desire to learn.
Python's Version 2.5 is expected in early 2006 with the updates like automate cleanup and correction of code. The new version Python 3.0 is still in the planning stage, "Python 3.0, will unify user and systems classes, It's going to be the one release where we allow ourselves to break backward compatibility; this is sometimes necessary in order to fix early design mistakes.", says van Rossum.
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