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 ...

Portland, Oregon, is a city that takes pride in managing its resources wisely. So, maybe it's natural that this article describes how to make computer resources and legacy CGI scripts much more ...

Perl, Python, and Ruby modules can ease development for large projects, but Bash is simpler and better for many tasks Last week I talked a bit about how best to protect against the vagaries of human ...

Java is down a bit while Python continues to shine in this month’s Tiobe language index, which measures popularity based on language searches in search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo, and YouTube.