Soon after the news of PEP 572 and the turmoil it caused, we now have the announcement that Python's BDFL is taking a permanent vacation from the job. Where now Python?

The results of the ONVIF Open Source Spotlight Challenge have been announced. The challenge site has details of all the submissions and if you are looking for interesting ways to use security cameras then it's a treasure trove.

Amazon has launched the beta of a Python SDK designed to make it easier to work with Alexa responses and requests. The Python version has the same features as the existing SDKs for Java and Node.js.

Ten years of the App Store - is it time to celebrate? Or is it time to reflect back on what we have lost and what has been gained?

You would think with a language as old as Python there wouldn't be much left to get excited about, but over the past few months PEP-572, a proposal to add a new feature, has been raising the blood pressure of the Python community.

An open source GraphQL Engine has been launched that can be used with applications based on Postgres without the need for backend GraphQL processing code.

A short course from Google on the Coursera platform introduces augmented reality (AR) and Google's ARCore. Available for free, it starts on July 16th and lasts four weeks.

Thanks to a donation of up to $1,000,000 over the next two years the GNOME Foundation is recruiting for four positions including one for a core developer of the GTK+ toolkit and another for a DevOps Engineer/SysAdmin.

The Google Analytics team has launched a video series called Measure Matters that looks at best practices on using Google Analytics with data. While some of the topics sound rather too 'marketeery', others have info of interest to developers.

MapR has added data tiering to its new release, along with access via the S3 API and the ability to run Kubernetes-based apps without changing the container images.

This ingenious protective case for a mobile phone is a great example of thinking outside the box. The design relies on feedback from sensors that detect that it's falling. Now why didn't we think of this sooner? It would have saved thousands of devices from being trashed.

Who hasn't taken a stick to sign their name in the sand - or in the case of one of the I Programmer team scrawl equations? An inventive creator and 3D printing enthusiast has built a beach printer that writes messages that stand out! See it in action in his video.

If you need to know what's important for the developer, you can rely on I Programmer to sift through the news and uncover the most interesting stories. Our weekly digest starts with additions to Book Watch and book reviews and concludes with the week's articles. This week they are on improving your coding skills while playing games and the fascinating knapsack problem.

HarvardX has released three new self-paced courses that follow on from David Malan's highly acclaimed Introduction to Computer Science MOOC, CS50x. Free on edX, they cover web programming, mobile app development, and game development respectively.

New types have been added to Excel that rely on AI to recognize rich data types such as countries. The first data types to be added are Stocks and Geography, but more will be added in the future.

Wikipedia blacked out in parts of Europe this week to protest against the copyright reforms that the European Parliament was due to vote on as part of the #SaveYourInternet campaign. This can be counted a success as a majority of MEPs voted for further scrutiny and debate of the proposals.