If you are running Selenium or other kind of application testing platform, you may have a need to install the PhantomJS package to make it work properly.  Unfortunately, if you are on Ubuntu, this isn’t quite the straightforward install most other apps are. Prerequisites * Must be running Ubuntu * Must

AppImages are a really nice way for developers to release applications for multiple platforms more quickly.  The problem however was that if you were like me, all of those wonderful AppImage files lived in a directory that I had to go to whenever I wanted to open them.  That is

MySQL databases are generally pretty good about dealing with large size tables with indexes, however sometimes it’s good to know just how large a DB is so you can optimize it if necessary. In a lot of cases it’s not very easy to just look up the size

Linux server security is always a good topic of discussion that everyone seems to have a different opinion about. I have recently been building a number of new production servers which are all running Debian 9, and here are some of the steps that I have taken to make sure

I have recently made the switch from OSX as my daily to Ubuntu Gnome and it has been largely successful, thanks in no small part to the Lenovo X240 laptop it’s running on. The one thing that I couldn’t do without is Photoshop, and with my inability to

So… I have built a million of these things and I figured it’s finally about time I document what I had to do to get it running. I am mainly writing this because I encountered a ton of little issues that slowed me down enough that I hope to

So this is apparently a pretty simple problem, but it was one that perplexed me for quite a while. Being an OSX native that recently converted to Ubuntu full-time, I was spoiled by the fact that a lot of the Android development tools just worked. However on Ubuntu, there was

As a MacOS user for the majority of my development career, the one thing that I really missed when I switched over to Linux full-time was the multi-pane-ability of iTerm2. The ability for me to quickly, and easily have multiple panes that I can interact with using a mouse or

A lot of people that I know, other developers included, think that this is all a bunch of crap. I explained to them what I was talking about and aside from a little pat on the shoulder or a reassuring comment, I was left to fend for myself. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BACKGROUND: