A comprehensive story on how I started using Intel NUC as a backend for local or remote development, while my code editor (on any machine) is used as a thin client. Table of contents Rationale Hardware Software Initial Setup Disk Network Static IP DHCP Wi-Fi Wake-on-LAN Avahi CPU Frequency Scaling Usage Overview Daily Routine Conclusion Pros Cons Rationale There were 2 problems, using a dedicated machine for development, I thought I might solve. ...
I always face several pitfalls, while creating isolated python environment on my laptop, where i’m running Ubuntu. So decided to make a memory note how to fight them, probably it can be helpful to anyone else. ...
Got an IOError exception, while trying to process image using PIL, with a next error message: encoder jpeg not available PIL is installed within python virtual environment. Figured out, I have no development files for libjpeg installed, so PIL compiles without JPEG support. ...
I had some mess around the process of installing those tools on my laptop running Ubuntu, so my decision was to write and explain everything step by step just in a case for the memo and probably a useful post for anyone as well. Who are those lads? virtualenv virtualenvwrapper pip If you are not an Ubuntu user, you should better read this Presentation: pip and virtualenv. ...