Installing and Configuring PostgreSQL 9.4 on Linux Mint/Ubuntu
Installing and configuring PostgreSQL on a Linux box is either simple, because you are a Linux and/or Postgres expert, or not so simple, because you are new(er) to Linux, Postgres, or both. Over the past year, I have resided...
Setting Up for Mono Development in Linux Mint/Ubuntu
Image by Neil Fowler | Some Rights Reserved I recently needed to create a cross-platform C# library which needs to work across Windows, OSX, and Linux. Obviously, getting a .NET library running on Windows presented no great...
Setting Up Linux in a Virtual Machine for Windows Users
If you have spent most of your computing life using Windows, odds are good you may find yourself in unfamiliar territory when if comes to setting up a Linux box. Even for some experienced technical folks, the differences between...
Creating A Basic Make File for Compiling C Code
Image by quimby | Some Rights Reserved I recently began taking a Harvard computer science course. As pretentious as that sounds, it’s not as bad as it seems. I am taking Harvard CS50 on-line, for free, in an attempt to...
Git: Setting Sublime Text as the Default Editor for Git (Linux Mint/Ubuntu)
Setting up Sublime Text 2 (or the new Beta Release of version 3) as the default editor used by Git is not overly challenging, but not necessarily obvious either. Really, we’re still simply setting up the .gitconfig file...
Install Sublime Text 3 (beta) on Linux Mint or Ubuntu
Image by Nick Ares / Some Rights Reserved Surprisingly, one of my more popular articles last year was a short, very basic walk-thru detailing how to install Sublime Text 2 on Ubuntu-based machines (this includes Linux Mint). Now...
Installing Sublime Text 2 on Linux Mint/Ubuntu (for Linux Newcomers)
TL:DR – For a newcomer to Linux, likely starting out with Ubuntu or Linux Mint, installing applications that are not part of the Software Manager or Synaptic Package Manager catalog for the chosen distro is not always intuitive...
How to Use SSH to Access a Linux Machine from Windows
NOTE: I do a LOT of handholding in this article. I wanted to be sure someone who is less-than-familiar with the Linux Command Line Interface and/or SSH would have no trouble understanding what is going on. Here are some...
Find The IP Address of Your Computer on the Home or Local Area Network (LAN) -Linux (Debian-Based Systems)
This is a short post on how and where to find the IP address and static/dynamic status for your Linux machine within your Local Area Network (LAN). If you are using a Windows machine, follow this link: Find The IP Address of Your...
Find The IP Address of Your Computer on the Home or Local Area Network (LAN) -Windows 7
This is a short post on how and where to find the IP address and static/dynamic status for your Windows 7 machine within your Local Area Network (LAN). If you are using a Linux machine, follow this link: Find The IP Address of...