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OpenRobertaLab – Simple Robot Programming Simulator and UI for Lego EV3 Bricks
Rather regretting not having done a deep dive into programming environments for the Lego EV3 somewhat earlier, I came across the block.ly inspired OpenRobertaLab (code, docs) only a couple of days ago....
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Application Shelves for the Digital Library – Fragments
Earlier today, I came across BioShaDock: a community driven bioinformatics shared Docker-based tools registry (BioShadock registry). This collects together a wide range of containerised applications...
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Querying Panama Papers Neo4j Database Container From a Linked Jupyter...
A few weeks ago I posted some quick doodles showing, on the one hand, how to get the Panama Papers data into a simple SQLite database and in another how to link a neo4j graph database to a Jupyter...
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Rolling Your Own Jupyter and RStudio Data Analysis Environment Around Apache...
I had a bit of a play last night trying to hook a Jupyter notebook container up to an Apache Drill container using docker-compose. The idea was to have a shared data volume between the two of them, but...
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BYOA (Bring Your Own Application) – Running Containerised Applications on the...
Imagine this: you’re on a Mac, though at times you’re on a Windows box, and at other times you’ve just got a browser to hand. You’re happy using applications that get stuff done, even if it means using...
View ArticleDocker Housekeeping _ Removing Old Images and Containers
Some handy commands for tidying up old Docker images and containers… Remove Named Images docker rmi `docker images --filter 'dangling=true' -q --no-trunc` Remove Images With a Particular Name Pattern...
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On Not Faffing Around With Jupyter Notebook Docker Container Auth Tokens
Mark this post as deprecated… There already exists an easy way of setting the token when starting one of the Jupyter notebook Docker containers: -e JUPYTER_TOKEN="easy; it's already there". In fact,...
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Viewing Dockerised Desktops via an X11 Bridge, novnc and RDP, Sort of…
So… the story so far… As regular readers of this blog will know, I happen to be of the opinion that we should package more of OUr software using Docker containers, for a couple of reasons (at least):...
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Accessing a Legacy Windows Application Running Under Wine On A Containerised,...
I finally got round to finding, and fiddling with, an Apache Guacamole container that I could actually make sense of and it seems to work, with audio, when connecting to my demo RobotLab/Wine RDP...
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Bundling a JupyterLite App for the Desktop Using Flask and Pyinstaller
As “preparation” for my CDSA (career development staff appraisal, maybe?) therapy session, I had a skim back through posts from the last year for things I thought notable enough to post here, also...
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