http://www.alfredcodes.com/Recent content on alfredcodesHugo -- gohugo.ioenTue, 05 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000http://www.alfredcodes.com/posts/setup-venv-video/Tue, 05 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000http://www.alfredcodes.com/posts/setup-venv-video/Here’s a short YouTube video on how to setup a Python Virtual Environment.http://www.alfredcodes.com/posts/setup-venv-text/Sun, 03 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000http://www.alfredcodes.com/posts/setup-venv-text/0. Summary Link to heading If you are a software developer, you need to know about virtual environments. In this post I go over how to setup a Python virtual environment for both Macintosh and Windows. What Is a Virtual Environment and Why Use It? contains an explanation of virtual environments. How to Setup a Python Virtual Environment (Video) is a video accompaniment to this post. There are four basic steps in setting up and using a Python Virtual Environment:http://www.alfredcodes.com/posts/why-venv/Fri, 01 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000http://www.alfredcodes.com/posts/why-venv/0. Summary Link to heading In this post I try to answer two questions: 1) What is a virtual environment?; 2) Why setup a virtual environment. 1. What is a Virtual Environment? Link to heading A virtual environment is like a separate box on your computer where you can keep the tools and materials needed for a specific project. This way, the tools and materials from different projects don’t get mixed up with each other or with the general tools and materials on your computer.http://www.alfredcodes.com/posts/change-mac-name/Sat, 25 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000http://www.alfredcodes.com/posts/change-mac-name/As a developer, you are constantly working in the terminal environment. If you use a Macintosh, Apple annoyingly sets the computer name to something like “Mycroft’s Blah Blah”. If you hunt around in “System Settings”, you will sooner later come across “General”, then “About”. There you can change the name of the computer to something you want. You think you are home free, but that doesn’t change the name that appears on the command line in terminal.