Coding Tips

VSCodium is a community-driven, freely licensed binary distribution of Microsoft’s editor VS Code, when combined with a Perl extension makes a great IDE for Perl ...

After upgrading Ubuntu to 20.04, I could not run GUIs as root and gksu is gone. This is how I fixed that.

I’m running several Amazon Lightsail instances as WordPress servers, which has been very successful, however I have been unable to monitor them effectively – until ...

Networking issues after upgrading from Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04.

After upgrading from Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04, gksu is missing.

Creating a new WordPress Lightsail server is as easy as clicking a few buttons, but what if you want to add more WordPress sites to ...

phpMyAdmin is a great tool for administering MySQL databases, but updating to the latest version is not obvious.

Lightsail comes with an admin account but you don’t really want to give this to third parties if they require access for support. This is ...

I have been using XAMPP on Windows for development for many years and found it to work quite well. Unfortunately performance is not that great.