A weekly look at open source community and industry trends.

A universal packaging format with a decentralized means of distribution. Plus, portability and sandboxing.

Learn basic Bash programming syntax and tools, as well as how to use variables and control operators, in the first article in this three-part series.

Pylint is your friend when you want to avoid arguing about code complexity.

Open source projects are helping to satisfy our curiosity about what lies far beyond Earth's atmosphere.

Python supports imperative, functional, procedural, and object-oriented programming; here are tips on choosing the right one for a specific use case.

Protobuf encoding increases efficiency when exchanging data between applications written in different languages and running on different platforms.

In this installment of conversations with developers who build and maintain open source music players, we hear from Craig Drummond of Canata.