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Scripting Languages See A Cyclic Rise & Fall

Experts Debate SOA, RIA, Agile, Quality, Open Source, Work Cultures & IT Education... Project managers architects from Cognizant, Infosys, i-flex & Persistent talk to IndicThreads about trends in software development. They discuss the changing nature of enterprise applications as well as the impact of RIA and SOA. They share their thoughts on Agile, project execution models, project irritants and also give their take on the quality of software education. Read the full discussion to gain meaninful insights into the Software Development scenario today.

Python Is The Truly Object Oriented Successor To Perl

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.

Web Development Using Django Web Framework

Django is an Open Source web framework that enables you to build clean and feature-rich web applications with minimal time and effort. Django is written in Python, a general purpose language that is well suited for developing web applications. Django loosely follows a model-view-controller design pattern, which greatly helps in building clean and maintainable web applications.Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.

Google App Engine Released - Supports Only Python Web Applications

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.

CommunityOne Developer Conference To Look Into Python & Scripting

Sun Microsystem today announced details around its second annual CommunityOne (http://developers.sun.com/events/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 (http://www.startupcamp.org/sc5sanfran_register.html)(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.