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 ...

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 ...

Pick the language with which you’re most comfortable. That’s our advice to reader John Wiersba, who asked us several weeks ago where he should concentrate his study. Wiersba’s question is a good one.

ActiveState on Tuesday announced the release of its ActivePerl, ActivePython and ActiveTcl open source language distributions for Mac OS X v10.4 “Tiger.” They’re available for download from ...

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?