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Overview Sublime is a text editor with a wide range of support for different programming languages. It also support installation of plugins.   Prerequisites Ubuntu 18.04   Installation Install using the following commands    

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Overview Vokoscreen is a video desktop recorder for Ubuntu that allows selection of the screen area, setting the number of frames, and even provide a zoom function on the area the cursor is located.   Prerequisites Ubuntu 18.04   Installation 01. Install using the following commands   02. Once installed can access the application using …

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Overview Peek is another desktop video recorder. It’s simple and can output the recording in GIF, APNG, WebM and MP4. It might not have all the features like Vokoscreen has but it is sufficient for simple use cases.   Prerequisites Ubuntu 18.04   Installation 01. Add the package repository for Peek. 02. Update the package …

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Overview Shutter is an Ubuntu software that can be used to make a screenshot of the desktop and applications. It also provides basic editing of images like blurring sections, adding text and arrows and crop.   Prerequisites Ubuntu 18.04   Installation Install using the following commands   Ubuntu Shortcuts From the Ubuntu Settings, select “Devices” …

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Programming

Overview This is the 2nd part of the 3-part guide on Installing, Configuring and Deploying a Python Web/Flask application on an Ubuntu system that uses NGINX and uWSGI. For the installation part go here. For the configuration part go here.   Prerequisites Ubuntu 18.04 Python 3.x has been installed. For instructions see here. Pip and …

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Programming

Overview This is the 2nd part of the 3-part guide on installing, configuring and deploying a Python Web/Flask application on an Ubuntu system that uses NGINX and uWSGI. For the installation part go here. If you’ve finished Installation and Configuration you can go here to deploy the app. Prerequisites Ubuntu 18.04 Python 3.x has been installed. …

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Programming

Overview This tutorial will guide you in creating a simple Web/Flask Python application and deploy it on an NGINX server with uWSGI and uWSGI Emperor. This part 1 covers the installation of the required packages. It will install the following: NGINX uWSGI uWSGI-Emperor Flask It will also cover creation of Virtual Environment Installation of python packages …

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Overview This guide provides an intro to the GCP BigQuery and how it can be used for data analysis. It also shows how to query the data using Python.   Prerequisites Access to Google Cloud Console Installed Python on your machine. Refer to the following for Ubuntu and Windows installation. Installed Google Cloud SDK. Refer …

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Programming

Overview Installation of Node.js on an Ubuntu system. At the time of this writing, the stable version is 10.16.2 (LTS) and the current version is 12.8.0.   Prerequisites Ubuntu 18 and above   Download and install via the package manager Current version : 12.x   Stable and LTS version: 10.16.2 Install via snap Current version: …

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DataProgramming

Overview This guide contains instructions on how to install and do basic configuration of a Neo4J database.   Prerequisites Operating System: Ubuntu 18.04 Access to a Terminal or Shell Console   Installation 01: Open a terminal window   02: Update the package repository list   03: Install Java. We will be using OpenJDK 8. Other …

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