Wednesday, February 29, 2012

It's here! Welcome, ActiveState Stackato 1.0

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Hi sherly,

You're a valued member of the ActiveState community, and we want to share the news with you first: It's here! Stackato 1.0, the application platform for creating a private PaaS using any language on any stack in any cloud, is now generally available for production use. It's a big day for us, and a big day for developers and enterprises looking to deploy applications in the cloud.
 
With Stackato, developers can simulate a production environment on a local machine, code, test, and then launch an application to any cloud. Enterprise IT can achieve new levels of data security, reduce time to market, save money, ensure compliance, and gain greater control over the cloud.
 
We hope you're as excited about Stackato as we are. If you're considering deploying applications to the cloud and would like to evaluate Stackato for your production environment, contact our sales team now at stackato-sales@activestate.com to learn more about how Stackato Enterprise can help your business. And if you'd like to test Stackato, visit our site to download the free Stackato Micro Cloud for your desktop client machine. (By the way, Stackato Micro Cloud will always remain free for use in single node. See this blog post for more details.)

We have big plans for Stackato, and its future will be brighter with input from you. We love to hear from you, so please reach out to us: Email us at stackato-support@activestate.com.

Regards,

The ActiveState Stackato Team
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Thursday, February 9, 2012

Your ActiveState News for February 2012

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Issue 41
February 2012
Welcome to the February issue of the ActiveState Newsletter! In this issue you'll find:
  • New Release! Komodo IDE 7: The World's Fiercest IDE
  • Upcoming Webinar: Implementing Private PaaS for a Secure Enterprise Cloud
  • Blog: Improved Syntax Checking in Komodo 7
  • ActiveState Attending Cloud Connect

As always, please feel free to drop us a line if you have ideas for future issues or feedback.

  The ActiveState Team


New Release! Komodo IDE 7: The World's Fiercest IDE

ActiveState has announced the release of Komodo IDE 7. Groundbreaking new features include:

  • Integration with Stackato for easy cloud deployment
  • Syncing of settings across multiple workstations
  • Code Collaboration for real-time, multi-user editing
  • Support for Node.js, CoffeeScript, SCSS, LESS...

...and a lot more! Our lead Komodo IDE developer Todd Whiteman has written a great blog post, highlighting Komodo IDE 7's major new features.

Read the blog post.

And to celebrate the launch, Komodo IDE 7 is currently on sale, starting from $245 (reg. $295) through March 15!

Buy Komodo IDE 7 today or contact us for a quote.


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Upcoming Webinar: Implementing Private PaaS for a Secure Enterprise Cloud

Date: Thursday, March 1, 2012
Time:
10 AM PT / 1 PM EST
Speakers: John Rymer, Vice President, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research and Bart Copeland, President & CEO, ActiveState

Space is limited so register now!

The cloud promises to be a quick and simple way to deploy your applications, but you need more than just virtualized infrastructure to deploy and run your applications successfully. That's why Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) with public services like Google App Engine, Heroku, EngineYard, and DotCloud have gained popularity.

As corporate mandates on data security and privacy compliance drive enterprises to adopt cloud strategies, how do you leverage the benefits of a PaaS that is secure, private, and customizable if your company doesn't permit you to use a public Paas?

Learn how private PaaS helps address these issues in this webinar featuring John Rymer, Vice President, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, and Bart Copeland, President & CEO at ActiveState.

Spaces are filling up quickly. Register now to reserve your spot.



Blog: Improved Syntax Checking in Komodo 7

Komodo has always been adept at working with multiple languages. When we realized that multi-language templating systems were becoming more common, we made it easier to create new colonizers for them. But until now, Komodo wasn't very flexible at checking the syntax of these documents.

Komodo 7 identifies the different parts of a document, and hands each part over to a particular syntax checker. It then collects any error or warning messages from the different checkers, weaves them back together, and presents them all in one shot.

Read the full blog post.


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ActiveState Attending Cloud Connect

ActiveState is proud to be a Silver Sponsor at this year's Cloud Connect, Feb. 13-15 in Santa Clara, CA.

We will be at Booth #623, and our own Cloud Evangelist, Diane Mueller, will be participating in a panel discussion: "Moving on Up: Enterprise Private PaaS" on Wed., Feb. 15.

Will you be in Santa Clara on Feb. 13? Are you planning to attend Cloud Connect? If so, we'd love to meet you there! Don't worry, we're a friendly bunch.

We also have guest discounts that we can extend to you if you are interested. Just let us know!

Learn more about Cloud Connect.



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This month's Quick Poll should take no more than one minute to complete.

One respondent will receive a complimentary license of Komodo IDE 7, just for taking the time to participate! Take the quick poll now.

Thanks to everyone who participated in January's Quick Poll and congrats to our lucky winner!

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Komodo IDE 7.0.1

ActiveTcl 8.5.11.0 (Updated)

ActiveTcl 8.6.0.0b7

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ActiveState is proud to sponsor the following upcoming events:

Cloud Connect
Feb. 13-16, Santa Clara, CA
Silver Sponsor

PyCon 2012
Mar. 17-15, Santa Clara, CA
Gold Sponsor

DrupalCon Denver
Mar 20-22, Denver, CO

Yet Another Perl Conference (YAPC::NA)
Jun. 13-15, Madison, WI
Gold Sponsor


Planning an event we should know about? Have an event you recommend? Send us an email.

Check out all upcoming events.


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