thecoderover
Computing from a programmer's perspective
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Introducing Lua: A Starting Guide for 2025.
This post is a starting guide to the Lua programming language. I recently adopted Lua for one of my projects. While I had previously used Lua several years ago, I needed to get back up to speed. So, I’m sharing my reacquaintance with the language to help others. Unlike Python or JavaScript, the Lua programming…
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WordPress on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS with Nginx and MySQL
Republished November 2023 This guide will take you through the steps required to install WordPress on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS with Nginx and MySQL. You will need a newly installed Ubuntu server running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS with ‘sudo‘ root privileges. If not then I would personally suggest having a look at something like Amazon LightSail which makes it easy to install a…
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Passage of time from the perspective of a developer
Time stops for no one, as they say, and one day you will find yourself older than you ever thought possible. Undoubtedly this has been the case for me, and somehow I am now in my early 50’s, having programmed professionally for over 25 years. Thus I have some degree of insight into the passage…
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2020 Blog Review
In this post, I will be taking a pause and considering how my blog has gone for the last year: a 2020 blog review if you will. From the reader’s perspective, not much happened – just the single post at the start of the year. However, from my perspective, the coding side went well with…