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• Heroku, Engine Yard bolster language support on clouds

  By Paul Krill | 01 October, 2011 01:22

  Platform-as-a-service cloud vendors Heroku and Engine Yard have been branching out to accommodate more developers by backing more programming languages.

• Objective-C, C#, D language: Winners in programming popularity

  By Paul Krill | 13 September, 2011 08:04

  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 ago. Also posting gains, C# rose to No. 4, a jump of two spots a year ago, while PHP dropped from No. 4 at this time last year to No. 5.

• Need open source Django CRM? Cuddle up to Koalix

  By Rodney Gedda | 13 May, 2011 15:35

  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 developed with the Django Python framework.

• Melbourne hacker releases open source Django apps

  By Rodney Gedda | 18 March, 2011 15:58

  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.

• Local students hack up Facebook alternatives

  By Rodney Gedda | 11 January, 2011 15:09

  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.

• Python 3.2 eases concurrent development

  By Joab Jackson | 09 December, 2010 07:10

  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 of multicore processors.

• 7 programming languages on the rise

  By Peter Wayner | 26 October, 2010 00:51

  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. Sometimes, enterprise coders will dabble in C++ or another common language used for high-performance tasks such as game programming, all of which turn around and speak SQL to the database.

• ActiveState prepares Python for databases

  By Joab Jackson | 02 September, 2010 05:16

  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 Interfaces), the company announced Wednesday.

• Open source Ruby, Python hit rocky ground at Microsoft

  By Rodney Gedda | 09 August, 2010 12:32

  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.

• Microsoft sponsors first Aussie Python conference

  By Rodney Gedda | 12 May, 2010 05:08

  Local Python programming language professionals and enthusiasts will gather in Sydney next month for the inaugural PyCon Au, including representatives from the event's main sponsor Microsoft.