Using the console on Windows

I tell you a secret: I’m a Windows user. I don’t use OSX, I don’t use Linux, I use Windows. And I tell you something more: I like it 😉 Usually I develop Java or JavaScript applications which perfectly run under Windows, Linux, OSX or what so ever. So developing under Windows is no problem […]

Resizing Vagrant box disk space

Vagrant is a great tool to provision virtual machines! As I’m a passionated Windows user, Vagrant is the weapon of my choice whenever I need to use some Linux-only tools such as Docker. I spinn up a new Linux VM, already configured with the things I need and start working. However, when it comes to […]

Flatten a Docker container or image

Docker containers and respectively images can become fairly large. I recently worked with a Docker image which was over 7 GB big. However, it is pretty easy to flatten an image at the end. Difference between save and export As I described in my last post (http://tuhrig.de/difference-between-save-and-export-in-docker), there are two ways to persist a Docker […]

Difference between save and export in Docker

I recently played around with Docker, an application container and virtualization‎ technology for Linux. It was pretty cool and I was able to create Docker images and containers within a couple of minutes. Everything was working right out of the box! At the end of my day I wanted to persist my work. I stumbled […]

3 ways of installing Oracle XE 11g on Ubuntu

During the last few days I struggled with installing Oracle XE 11g on an Ubuntu VM. And with “the last few days” I mean “the last few weeks”. Sad, but true. Here is what I learned about installing Oracle XE 11g on Ubuntu. But please note that I am not a Linux specialist nor an […]

Install OpinionTrends with nginx and memcached

OpinionTrends is build with Python and Flask. Therefore you can run it without any additional server right out of the box. Batteries included! However, it is much more common and much more efficient if you run it with a web server and an application server. A widely used combination for Python web applications is nginx […]