While boring looking XFCE installation on Ubuntu Server is shown everywhere, this post shows you how to get a nice Mate Desktop on Ubuntu in Azure up and running and RDP into it.
If you don't want to find out the solution by running over 40 Ubuntu installations with several desktop environments on AWS, read on.
In a current Node.js / Docker customer project I had to debug some mocha tests because Docker containers use UTC and you know: that timezone stuff...
In my development environments, I never install Node.j using `apt-get` but use nvm instead to be able to use multiple Node.js versions in parallel. This requires different settings in VS Code for debugging mocha tests.
I just tried to debug an ES6 Node.js application using Visual Studio Code and noticed that I couldn't remote debug. So I just asked on Twitter and got some replies from Erich Gamma and Andre Weinand.