As a developer, I like to have all my dependencies available locally. When the development environment has a database dependency, my preference has been to connect to a local database. As a developer, this gives me the flexibility to try out just about anything without worrying about the impact it might have on others. It […]
If you read my previous blog post, you would know that I resized my Ubuntu disk image size last week. When I did this exercise, I somehow lost the capability to automatically copy mouse selection to clipboard in the Ubuntu terminal. It is such a useful feature that I felt handicapped without it. I needed […]
VirtualBox has a nasty little habit of suggesting small virtual Hard disk sizes when creating Virtual Machines. I created an Ubuntu image to play around with docker and the default size allocated was 20GB. Within a couple of days, I realized that 20GB is not going to cut it, as the docker images I was […]