Paul Jansen, the managing director of TIOBE Software in an interview with Dr. Dobbs Journal talks of the changes seen on TIOBE Programming Community Index. The TIOBE index tries to measure the popularity of programming languages by monitoring their web presence.
Learning Website Development with Django is a new book from Packt which is a beginner's tutorial to building web applications, quickly and cleanly, with the Django application framework. Written by Ayman Hourieh, this book is a beginner's guide to designing, developing and deploying a fully-featured dynamic website using the features of Django.
Google has released a new hosted software platform offering developers access to its application servers. Google App Engine service that includes a distributed Web server, database and storage, software development kit, which enable developers to write Web applications in Google's SDK, and upload them to the company's servers for hosting. The Google App Engine currently supports only Python, which will surely be a significant boost to interest in and usage of the Python language for web applications.
Sun Microsystem today announced
details around its second annual CommunityOne conference
that will be held May 5, 2008 at Moscone Center in San Francisco. In
addition, Sun will host its fifth Sun Startup
Camp(SM) event May 4-5, 2008, as part of CommunityOne. CommunityOne
is a free, one-day event that allows developers and students to benefit
from the innovation and choice of the free and open source ecosystem.
CommunityOne will offer more than 70 sessions led by contributors and
committers of more than 30 different open source and community
projects; from chip design to operating systems, to web servers and
databases, to scripting languages and tools.
ActiveState today announced an updated, open-sourced release of Komodo Edit, the popular and free editor for dynamic languages including Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and Tcl, plus support for browser-side code including JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and XML.
Komodo Edit, based on the award-winning Komodo IDE, offers sophisticated support for all major scripting languages, including in-depth autocomplete and calltips, multi-language file support, syntax coloring and syntax checking, Vi emulation, and Emacs key bindings. Komodo Edit is built on the Mozilla code base, and is now licensed under the same terms as Firefox: Mozilla Public License (MPL), GNU General Public License (GPL), and GNU Lesser Public License (LGPL).
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