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How to save keystrokes at the command line with alias

Save some hassle by setting up aliases for the commands you often use.

30 years on, Perl and its community continue to thrive

Perl turns 30 and its community continues to thrive

Created for utility and known for its dedicated users, Perl has proven staying power. Here's a brief history of the language and a look at some top user groups.

Open source dependency management is a balancing act

During my career I have spent a lot of time packaging other people's code, writing my own, and working on large software frameworks. I have seen projects that still haven't…

10 reasons to use Flowblade on Linux as your video editor

The software racket is like anything else: there are loud projects that get a lot of attention but don't actually get much done, there are heavyweights that move in and make…

What you probably didn’t know about sudo

Think you know everything about sudo? Think again.

15 podcasts on open source for your listening pleasure

Automate podcast publishing with Python

Python can help you skip over the fussy little steps required to publish podcasts. We walk through a custom script for automating the process.

How to automate your system administration tasks with Ansible

Sharpen your sysadmin and Linux skills and learn how to set up tooling to simplify administering multiple machines.

An introduction to the GNU Core Utilities

Most everything a Linux sysadmin needs to do can be found in the GNU coreutils or util-linux.

Colorful deployments: An introduction to blue-green, canary, and rolling deployments

Learn how to implement three popular deployment strategies —blue-green, canary, and rolling—on the latest installment of OpenShift.

9 Lessons from 25 Years of Linux Kernel development

Using MQTT to send and receive data for your next project

From open data to open event streams, learn more about the MQTT publish/subscribe (pubsub) wire protocol.

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15 JavaScript frameworks and libraries

JavaScript is the future. The language is supported by a number of technololgy leaders, one of whom is WordPress's founder Matt Mullenweg, who hinted that WordPress developers…

Ecere SDK: A cross-platform toolkit for GUIs and graphics

Take a look at the 20-year history of the Ecere software development kit, now powering the GNOSIS GIS mapping software.