Ubuntu VM: local dev environment on Windows

Recently, I went through the process of setting up a new development environment on Windows for my playground projects at home. My work is usually done and hosted on Linux with a standard LAMP [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAMP_(software_bundle)] stack, so using an ubuntu virtual machine lets…

An assortment of useful linux commands

This is a totally random post full of linux commands that I find useful but am always forgetting. I use linux at work and also on a command-line-only VM at home. I'm always battling with it, largely because I'm a noob. Usually after a couple of…