Shahzeb Ihsan

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw


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A Stepwise Tutorial for Building a Chrome App

01 Jul 2015 | | chrome, app, development, js, css, html

A great tutorial for building a packaged Chrome app is available in this Google Code Lab and I used it as a starting point when I was working on my very first Chrome app, Simple TCP Client – BUT…..

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Configuring Your Arch Linux VM for Development

26 Jun 2015 | | virtualbox, virtualmachine, archlinux, linux, development, python, ruby, ssh

I am stuck on a Windows machine most of the time, but I prefer Linux. Also, Ruby on Rails on Windows is a real PITA. So, I configure a VM with all the necessary development tools and share my project/work folders with the VM and mount it using mount.vboxsf. Then I run the VM in headless mode and SSH into it.

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Download Arch Linux VMs

24 Jun 2015 | | virtualbox, virtualmachine, archlinux, linux, development

I have uploaded 3 Arch Linux Virtual Machines to Dropbox. One without any desktop environment (command line only), another with LXQT and a third with XFCE. You will need to create a new user since these VMs only contain the default “root” account with password “root”. If you’d rather install Arch Linux on VirtualBox from scratch, go here.

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