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Setting up SSH keys for GitHub Access

February 24, 2016

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});Why SSH Keys for Git Hub SSH keys provide a secure connection to Git Hub without the need to enter your username and password every time you...

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ubuntu - tips & tricks

Use pbcopy on Ubuntu

February 23, 2016

A quick tip to get pbcopy alias configured on your ubuntu in order to copy standard input from the terminal...

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install wordpress on ubuntu

November 14, 2015

Gary Woodfine

Freelance Full Stack Developer at threenine.co.uk
Helps businesses by improving their technical proficiencies and eliminating waste from the software development pipelines.

A unique background as business owner, marketing, software development and business development ensures that he can offer the optimum business consultancy services across a wide spectrum of business challenges.

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In this post I will provide instructions to install WordPress on ubuntu server.  This tutorial is aimed at those users who may want to install WordPress on a virtual server for development purposes.

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Update libreoffice to version 5

October 23, 2015

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});I wanted to update my LibreOffice application suite on my Ubuntu desktop. The news on 5 August 2015 that The Document Foundation (TDF)  announced the release...

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Install Skype on ubuntu Desktop

October 20, 2015

Gary Woodfine

Freelance Full Stack Developer at threenine.co.uk
Helps businesses by improving their technical proficiencies and eliminating waste from the software development pipelines.

A unique background as business owner, marketing, software development and business development ensures that he can offer the optimum business consultancy services across a wide spectrum of business challenges.

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I have recently purchased my new Viglen Desktop Computer from ebuyer. It has arrived with Ubuntu 14.04 pre-installed, which is just awesome. However, as with any new machine getting it set up just the way I want to be productive does take a bit of time. In order to speed up this process I have been developing a number of BASH scripts, that I repeatedly  run to install skype on ubuntu desktop.

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Set up ubuntu workstation for nodejs development

October 6, 2015

Gary Woodfine

Freelance Full Stack Developer at threenine.co.uk
Helps businesses by improving their technical proficiencies and eliminating waste from the software development pipelines.

A unique background as business owner, marketing, software development and business development ensures that he can offer the optimum business consultancy services across a wide spectrum of business challenges.

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I have recently been engaged in a number of projects utilising nodejs and my primary development Operating System has been ubuntu Linux. I also have a number of laptops I use for software development purposes, which I frequently teardown and rebuild during the course of projects. I have a number of reasons for doing this, which relate to the fact that I treat my software development laptops or virtual machines like cattle rather than pets , although this phrase is usually associated with Cloud computing, I find it relates to a software developers laptop/workstation too, especially if you’re engaged in multiple projects.

 

 

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Configure Ubuntu to enable the execution of npm without sudo

October 5, 2015

Gary Woodfine

Freelance Full Stack Developer at threenine.co.uk
Helps businesses by improving their technical proficiencies and eliminating waste from the software development pipelines.

A unique background as business owner, marketing, software development and business development ensures that he can offer the optimum business consultancy services across a wide spectrum of business challenges.

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Node.js Package Manager (NPM) , is an is an online repository for the publishing of open-source Node.js projects, and a command-line utility for interacting with said repository that aids in package installation, version management, and dependency management. Essentially what this tools enables you to do is easily and quickly make use of the plethora of nodejs packages being developed on a daily basis. NPM enables the community to share and contribute to reusable javascript code libraries to help others with common software development problems.

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How to execute a BASH script

August 27, 2015

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});You may on occassion feel the need to automate certain processes or proceudres on your linux based computer. These maybe simple processes like ensuring your packages...

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Install MySQL on ubuntu desktop

March 30, 2015

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});If you're trying to set up your ubuntu desktop in order to carry out some LAMP stack development , you'll need to install mySQL Relational Database...

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Remove All Unused Linux Kernel Headers, Images and Modules from ubuntu boot

February 3, 2015

Gary Woodfine

Freelance Full Stack Developer at threenine.co.uk
Helps businesses by improving their technical proficiencies and eliminating waste from the software development pipelines.

A unique background as business owner, marketing, software development and business development ensures that he can offer the optimum business consultancy services across a wide spectrum of business challenges.

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If you are constantly updating your linux installation you may find over time that your boot partition may be running out of space and if list the contents of your boot partition you may find several versions of the same files i.e. kernel versions listed.

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