Linux

I recently upgraded to the latest LTS version on my dev machine and needed to install Java. I couldn’t remember exactly what I did last time but knew that I needed to download the tarball from Oracle, save the extracted files somewhere, add the runtime (java), SDK compiler (javac) and webstart (javaws) executables to the […]

I recently had to make some updates to my VirtualBox and Vagrant installations and decided to completely uninstall VirtualBox to reinstall the newest version to start fresh. I am creating this post as a future reference (mostly for the home folder info) but also to share. Step 1: Completely Remove All VirtualBox Packages and Folders […]

If you do any kind of front end development or front end development training, you have probably accumulated a bunch of projects with aging/stale “node_modules” directories. Are you going to take time to open every single old project you have to nuke the node_modules directory? Nobody has time for that. I wanted to migrate a […]

If you are using Linux as a development environment, to install a new utility, or for an almost infinite number of other reasons, it may be helpful to get the current version from the command line. Get Current Ubuntu Version From Command Line If you are an Ubuntu or Debian user, you can get the […]

PhantomJS is a quick, excellent alternative to native browser testing for both e2e testing with selenium and JavaScript unit testing with Karma. The beta version, PhantomJS 2.5 offers support for ES2015 unlike the current stable branch (at the time of writing this article 2.1.x). Download PhantomJS 2.5 for Ubuntu At the time of writing this […]