VirtualBox - Sharing a host folder on Ubuntu guest

Dec. 23, 2013 |  virtualbox  ubuntu  linux 
I have been using [VirtualBox](https://www.virtualbox.org/) to run Ubuntu Server on my Windows PC over the last couple of weeks. The more time I spend with it, the more I find the need to get myself acclimatized with the good old command line method to int

Play youtube videos on Raspbian using omxplayer

Oct. 2, 2013 |  youtube  raspbian  omxplayer 
This is a follow up post to the [original one](http://lin.jojen.de/play-html-5-video-raspberry-pi-in-midori-chrome/) made by Jojen on setting raspbian to use omxplayer to play videos embedded in webpages. This yields much smoother playback on raspberry PI

Debugging Django Template Tags

Sept. 21, 2013 |  pdb  django  python 
Here's a cool bit of code snippet that I found from the web (original post [here](http://stackoverflow.com/a/2324210)). I'm recording it here for my own easy reference without having to google it all the time. It describes a simple technique to debug Djang

MQC Client

Sept. 4, 2013 |  quality center  mercury quality center  mqc 
Beging a legacy component, Mercury Quality Center web plugin does not work very well with new versions of Internet Explorer. MQC Client is a little program that addresses this by hosting the MQC web plugin inside it making it work with the newer IE version

Setting up Shared Repository in Git

July 30, 2013 |  git 
This is not really a post and more of a web clipping for my own future reference. This [page](http://www.gitguys.com/topics/creating-a-shared-repository-users-sharing-the-repository/) contains useful instructions on how to setup a shared repository with Gi