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Why PhpStorm Fails Trying to Get vagrant status When Using Hyper-V

I’m on a roll today – all about those extreme corner cases. I thought I had everything smoothed out – and Vagrant was working fine but then I booted up PhpStorm and tried attaching it to Vagrant. Everything went okay under Settings–>Tools–>Vagrant but when I when to Settings–>PHP–>CLI Interpreters and tried using Vagrant for the …

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A Late Christmas Wish: Containers for my (Windows) Desktop Workspaces

I’ve used various virtualization technologies over the years – VMWare, Hyper-V, VirtualBox, etc. I’ve also spent my fair share of time with Docker, especially since Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code (VSC) began offer the remote containers experience. It is SO easy to spin up a container for any project I’m working on. But I’d like something …

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Windows Subsystem for Linux version 2 Up and Running on Windows 10

Just a brief chronicle of my recent reinstall of WSLv2 on a Windows 10 system. Note: Hyper-V was already installed and active on my system, but other virtualization related features including Containers, Virtual Machine Platform, Windows Hypervisor Platform, and Windows Sandbox were not. Control Panel -> Programs and Features -> Windows Subsystem for Linux I …

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Best of FreeBASIC IDE’s, Tools, Libraries, Resources, and More

FreeBasic? FreeBasic is a free and open source compiler that works with Windows, DOS, and Linux. It includes a QuickBasic emulation mode but also has many features of contemporary languages. The most recent version is 1.06 from Feb. 18, 2019. Development appears to have slowed to a crawl. Integrated Development Environments winFBE Last Release: 2019 …

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