Linux drivers make working with devices so easy - assuming you know how. Here's how to get a Raspberry Pi to get data from the widely-used DHT22 Temperature Humidity Sensor. 

.NET has some really easy-to-use facilities for creating and editing XML. Many of these facilities were introduced to make Linq to XML work better, but you can make use of them in more general situations.

The most attractive thing about the youthful Go was that it was lean and left out all of the confusing things that other languages had. It has taken a long time, but finally Gophers have decided that generics are now part of the language.

The skill of pair programming, an increasingly popular agile software development technique, is separate from the general software development skill. Years of PP experience are neither a prerequisite nor sufficient for successful pair programming.

MapLibre is an open source alternative to Mapbox. It has been released to ensure a free-to-use option is available following the announcement that Mapbox is to move to a proprietary license model.

Curated content about SQL Server, Azure SQL and more used internally in Microsoft's instructor-led classes has been made freely available to the rest of us.

Google has become the Python Software Foundation's (PSF) first Visionary Sponsor, with a donation of more than $350,000 to support three specific PSF projects. Google is also making one of its PyPI datasets publicly available via the foundation.

Niklaus Wirth, best known for the Pascal language and as the author of "Algorithm + Data Structures = Programs" celebrated his 87th birthday on February 15th , 2021.  

Using artificial intelligence to restore or enhance film stock is a topic we've covered before. Now we have news of AI tools being used to breathe fresh life into classic cartoons, including those featuring Popeye.

Google has introduced significant changes for this year's Season of Docs, giving the open source projects more responsibility and more control. Google is also putting new emphasis effective metrics for evaluating open source documentation.

Here are three excellent online classes, all on YouTube, for learning a variety of programming languages - C++, Python and C# with Blazor!

The Rust Core team has announced the start of the active life of the Rust Foundation, a new independent non-profit organization to steward the Rust programming language and ecosystem. A major focus will be to support the set of maintainers that govern and develop the project.

Apache DataSketches has reached top-level project status. The data analysis software was originally developed at Yahoo, and has been an Apache incubator project for the last two years.