If you want to put together a web application in your favorite language and publish it for free, you will find Heroku a convenient helper. The service even allows you to bring your own web server.

ActiveState announces the release of Komodo IDE 7.1, an award-winning multiplatform integrated development environment (IDE) for Python, PHP, Ruby, JavaScript, Perl, and web development.

Clonezilla makes backing up and restoring your system an easy affair that only involves a few key strokes. A homegrown solution reduces the time and effort to the act of slotting in a CD, on which you previously burned a Perl script.

The proprietary Dropbox service has become a popular way to exchange large files. The Dropbox web API also supports scripts, like the one in this article that picks up files from behind a firewall.

OpenOffice offers a selection of preconfigured formats for users who need to print their own self-adhesive labels. Perl feeds the address data to the document.

Phenona's 15-year-old founder to join ActiveState's team part-time.

How do you make sure the new laptop you just bought is populated with copies of all the Git repositories you use? Easy. By using a meta repository to maintain a list of projects and Perl scripts to automate discovery and cloning.

Kevin Fenzi, one of release-engineers for Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) and long time member of the EPEL Fedora Special Interest Group (SIG) discusses the EPEL 6 release.