In 1996, Sun Microsystems released the Java platform. Although it was yet another programming language entering a landscape already populated by the likes of older languages like Perl, C++, and C, Java had an ace up its sleeve: While older languages required recompilation for every different platform, Java was cross-platform. Older languages also needed special tweaks to handle the issues they encountered when running on different platforms. From the start, Java ran on any operating system without the need for recompilation or operating system-specific tweaking.
WORA does it again: HTML 5 has the signs of following Java’s winning strategy
August 21st, 2011 Posted in Programming Tools
Aug, 21 2011
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Google releases Go runtime version for App Engine
August 14th, 2011 Posted in Programming, Programming Tools
Aug, 14 2011
Google announced the launch of a runtime version of Go for the Google App Engine. Go is a platform-as-a-service specialized programming language in the same category as Java and Python. Both these latter languages have runtimes already available for theGoogle App Engine.
According to Google engineer Andrew Gerrand’s post on the Go Programming Language Blog, “This means you can take that Go app you’ve been working on (or meaning to work on) and deploy it to App Engine right now with the new 1.5.2 SDK.”
Well, not exactly “right now.” You’d have to get the SDK first by downloading it. The developer kit has 2 versions, 64-bit and 32-bit, forMac OS X and Linux. If you need to get up to speed on Google App Engine and Go, you might want to first check out Google’s docs on getting started.
Ten years ago, the open source stack of platforms, languages, scripts, and procedures of Python/PHP, MySQL, Apache, and Linux (also known as LAMP) ushered the flowering of low cost start ups. Due to the free infrastructure LAMP provided, startups easily and economically got their web presences up. The low-cost hardware needed for a LAMP set up triggered an avalanche of startups since the barrier to entry in terms of web presence and application development was significantly lowered by this open source stack. Given the huge user base some of these start ups generated, LAMP setups dramatically lowered scaling and upgrade costs. However, there was a major problem – a possibly missed opportunity – that such large user bases using open source infrastructure created. Read the rest of this entry »
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Macedonio Carpentier: Cuando dicen #Felices8MesesPyP se refieren al tiempo que llevaron programando en Python?
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Jurie Horneman: If I were to talk about how I've used Python to build tool chains on various game projects, what would you like to know (if anything)?
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Guido van Rossum: This is my last tweet. The Twitter for Android app just sent my entire address book to Twitter without confirming. See you on Google+.
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Guido van Rossum: NDB 0.9.5 released: http://t.co/zewBqzMI