Introduction: A somewhat rambling post outlining the steps to get GUI code / applications running in GitHub Codespaces on Windows. I went down a lot of wrong paths on this and my writing is a bit fragmented. Maybe I’ll clean it up sometime but wanted to share in case anyone else runs into similar issues. …
Running GUI Code / Applications in GitHub Codespaces (on Windows) Read More »
Why So Detailed? I tend to write a blow-by-blow account of my processes when possible – this means the account can become quite lengthy (if I run into issues). Why record all this detail and not just what works? Sometimes I do and sometimes I provide a summary so folks can jump right to the …
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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Lets not talk about how much time I wasted on this. If you are using Vagrant with Hyper-V and are on 2.2.15 (the latest at the moment) you will probably receive an angry error when Vagrant attempts to mount SMB shared folders like the one I received below (see after the angry for a workaround): …
Installing Git for Windows isn’t terribly complex but there are a few options that can be confusing. Here is the usual process I perform when installing Git along with some (hopefully helpful) commentary along the way.
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 …
A Late Christmas Wish: Containers for my (Windows) Desktop Workspaces Read More »
Brief chronicle of my recent reinstall of Docker on one of my Windows 10 systems. Note: This builds on my chronicle of installing WSLv2, you’ll need to install WSLv2 before this process will work for you. Note: I’m particularly interested in using Docker with WSLv2 as the back-end, as such that is all that is …
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 …
Windows Subsystem for Linux version 2 Up and Running on Windows 10 Read More »
(This article is a somewhat rambling thought piece on the various package managers currently available for Windows. Unlike a lot of what I post don’t expect to walk away from this with step-by-step guidance or a recommendation on the best option…this will probably be of most interest to those seeking to understand the current landscape) …
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 …
Best of FreeBASIC IDE’s, Tools, Libraries, Resources, and More Read More »