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Topics from October 2025

• Parallels Desktop and Ubuntu - Cut and Paste keys and issues Posted by David Rolston on Thursday, April 3. 2025
• Testing new ssh keys Posted by David Rolston on Wednesday, July 31. 2024
• Symfony & Doctrine Mapping problems with MySQL Bigint columns, and how to fix this Posted by David Rolston on Friday, February 10. 2023
• docker4lamp - A LAMP Docker development environment Posted by David Rolston on Wednesday, November 17. 2021
• Symfony 5.2 and Apache 2.4 Posted by David Rolston on Saturday, January 2. 2021
• Symfony 5: The Fast Track book and installing a local PHP version that works! Posted by David Rolston on Tuesday, January 21. 2020
• Composer install of Private Bitbucket VCS "aka" 'Invalid OAuth consumer provided' Posted by David Rolston on Thursday, April 5. 2018
• Configure the Atom live server to use Chrome Posted by David Rolston on Friday, September 15. 2017
• Pull an EC2 console log using the AWS CLI api and jq Posted by David Rolston on Monday, August 14. 2017
• Howto serve a markdown document Posted by David Rolston on Wednesday, August 2. 2017
• Vagrant Share and Ngrok Posted by David Rolston on Monday, July 17. 2017
• Putting Apache on a diet - how to get a lean configuration, Part 1 Posted by David Rolston on Sunday, July 16. 2017
• PHP Mysql support: mysql or mysqlnd? Posted by David Rolston on Saturday, July 1. 2017
• More git prompt - Does it work on a Mac? Posted by David Rolston on Thursday, June 16. 2016
• Fixing PHP short open tags Posted by David Rolston on Sunday, March 22. 2015
• How I found symbolic links for gitignore with find and cut Posted by David Rolston on Wednesday, September 3. 2014
• Battle.net error code BLZBNTBNA00000640 (1201) Posted by David Rolston on Monday, August 4. 2014
• Showing your git branch in your shell prompt Posted by David Rolston on Friday, August 16. 2013
• XDebug for developing, debugging and profiling PHP Posted by David Rolston on Saturday, January 12. 2013
• system-switch-mail is gone, so use alternatives Posted by David Rolston on Saturday, November 10. 2012
• AWS EC2 Amazon Linux or Where is my ephemeral storage? Posted by David Rolston on Friday, August 24. 2012
• Centos, Amazon Linux, NFS and the dreaded "nobody" problem Posted by David Rolston on Wednesday, February 1. 2012
• Calculate a person's age in a MySQL query -- continued Posted by David Rolston on Friday, August 19. 2011
• Calculate a person's age in a MySQL query Posted by David Rolston on Friday, August 12. 2011
• SQL UPDATE for strings in MongoDB Posted by David Rolston on Friday, May 20. 2011
• Load the Url symfony helper in a model or form class Posted by David Rolston on Tuesday, January 18. 2011
• How to configure AVReloaded to work with Longtail's JW Player Google Analytics Pro plugin Posted by David Rolston on Tuesday, September 14. 2010
• Joomla K2 Component ERD Schema and Tree traversal optimization with Catalog Mode Posted by David Rolston on Thursday, September 9. 2010
• Profile of the GB4k.com launch -- Joomla reborn Posted by David Rolston on Friday, September 3. 2010
• Get files from subversion without creating a sandbox using svn export Posted by David Rolston on Tuesday, February 23. 2010
• Finding "Next Monday" using MySQL Dates Posted by David Rolston on Wednesday, December 2. 2009
• Centos Virtual LAMP server -- Part II Posted by David Rolston on Wednesday, August 5. 2009
• Intel's T6500 -- No VT for you! Sony: You got Vaio VT? We turn it off. Posted by David Rolston on Thursday, July 30. 2009
• Run a Centos Lamp development server on XP, Vista or Win 7 using VirtualBox Posted by David Rolston on Thursday, July 16. 2009
• Too much information about the MySQL TIMESTAMP Posted by David Rolston on Thursday, April 23. 2009
• Mysql Update: Null + 1 is Null! Posted by David Rolston on Thursday, February 12. 2009
• Heathers Posted by David Rolston on Wednesday, January 7. 2009
• Lampsig 2008 Presentation on Subversion for Lamp Developers Posted by David Rolston on Monday, October 13. 2008
• Linux shell scripting: bad interpreter: No such file or directory Posted by David Rolston on Monday, September 15. 2008
• EA's Spore DRM fiasco Posted by David Rolston on Saturday, September 13. 2008
• New Lula/Lampsig Coop Server Posted by David Rolston on Thursday, July 24. 2008
• AT+T Wireless XPress Mail Courier IMAP setup problem - Trash Folder? Posted by David Rolston on Saturday, July 12. 2008
• LAMP Tutorial Series originally published on PHPFreaks.com Posted by David Rolston on Tuesday, May 27. 2008
• Free Apple Mac style Dock with Windows Vista and RocketDock Posted by David Rolston on Sunday, February 10. 2008
• West Texas UFO sightings, Cloverfield promotion? Posted by David Rolston on Thursday, January 17. 2008
• Chuck Norris Facts.... by Chuck Norris Posted by David Rolston on Thursday, December 6. 2007
• The Movie-Gurus.com archive. Posted by David Rolston on Wednesday, November 28. 2007
• Fun with Windows Vista and the Maxtor Shared Storage Drive Posted by David Rolston on Saturday, July 28. 2007
• Xen 3.0 Fedora Core, RHEL, Centos 4.x How-to Posted by David Rolston on Tuesday, June 12. 2007
• Install Xwindows and Gnome on Centos with Yum Posted by David Rolston on Sunday, May 20. 2007
• CAPTCHA busting -- A sucker born every minute Posted by David Rolston on Tuesday, January 9. 2007
• Pirate Name Posted by David Rolston on Tuesday, September 19. 2006
• Scrappy Posted by David Rolston on Monday, August 21. 2006
• The funniest show (not) on TV Posted by David Rolston on Tuesday, June 27. 2006
• February LAMPsig presentation on SVG with Ajax demo Posted by David Rolston on Friday, February 17. 2006
• Serendipity GeSHi Plugin update .05 Posted by David Rolston on Monday, November 14. 2005
• Joomla PonyGallery tweak Posted by David Rolston on Sunday, November 13. 2005
• Conor Posted by David Rolston on Friday, October 21. 2005
• PHPlot, MySQL and the Dark Ages of Camelot Posted by David Rolston on Thursday, September 29. 2005
• Joomla (Mambo) Core ERD diagrams Posted by David Rolston on Friday, September 23. 2005
• RegEx and the Mod_rewrite reference sheet Posted by David Rolston on Friday, September 9. 2005
• Jane Kurson's Art site launched Posted by David Rolston on Tuesday, July 19. 2005
• 3 Part PHP Development Tutorial at phpfreaks.com Posted by David Rolston on Sunday, June 12. 2005
• Ted Henning's Brainmeld Posted by David Rolston on Tuesday, May 17. 2005
• Serendipity .08 Released Posted by David Rolston on Saturday, April 16. 2005
• PHPeclipse Annoyances Posted by David Rolston on Friday, April 1. 2005
• Lampsig and SCALE Posted by David Rolston on Saturday, February 12. 2005
• New Phone at Last Posted by David Rolston on Monday, February 7. 2005
• Good night Mister Giz Posted by David Rolston on Saturday, January 1. 2005
• Referer spammers: New scourge of the web Posted by David Rolston on Thursday, December 16. 2004
• Exploring Mysql CURDATE and NOW. The same but different. Posted by David Rolston on Wednesday, December 1. 2004
• My First Serendipity Plugin Posted by David Rolston on Friday, October 29. 2004
• The 6 Million dollar site! Posted by David Rolston on Tuesday, October 26. 2004
• The Movie Gurus Posted by David Rolston on Tuesday, December 23. 2003
• LAMP Tutorial Posted by David Rolston on Sunday, July 27. 2003
• IVWeather 1.10 Released Posted by David Rolston on Monday, June 16. 2003
• Server move Posted by David Rolston on Friday, June 13. 2003
• Laurel Canyon Cam Posted by David Rolston on Friday, May 9. 2003
• The Ring Posted by David Rolston on Wednesday, April 9. 2003
• Niamh's first music Video. Posted by David Rolston on Sunday, March 23. 2003
• Meet Grandma Doris! Posted by David Rolston on Friday, March 14. 2003
• Dublin 2003, Celtic history and the Rock of Cashel Posted by David Rolston on Tuesday, February 25. 2003
• Christmas 2002 Posted by David Rolston on Friday, December 27. 2002
• Visitors from afar Posted by David Rolston on Wednesday, December 25. 2002
• Kick-n-play Posted by David Rolston on Wednesday, December 11. 2002
• New residents and digital sunsets Posted by David Rolston on Saturday, November 30. 2002
• The Fairy princess Posted by David Rolston on Wednesday, November 27. 2002
• PHP and Mysql graphing Posted by David Rolston on Friday, September 6. 2002
• Baby Gizmo Posted by David Rolston on Thursday, September 5. 2002
• Double crossed Posted by David Rolston on Thursday, March 14. 2002
• Art imitating art Posted by David Rolston on Friday, February 8. 2002
• Boycott Posted by David Rolston on Saturday, December 29. 2001
• George Harrison (2/24/1943 - 11/29/2001) Posted by David Rolston on Friday, November 30. 2001
• Fort Sumter Posted by David Rolston on Friday, November 2. 2001
• Blackbaud Posted by David Rolston on Saturday, September 29. 2001
• Code Red Posted by David Rolston on Wednesday, August 15. 2001
• New DSL Posted by David Rolston on Saturday, July 28. 2001
• Paoli to Savannah Posted by David Rolston on Saturday, July 28. 2001
• Muckraking online Posted by David Rolston on Saturday, June 23. 2001
• Phillips-Crawford Wedding Posted by David Rolston on Saturday, June 9. 2001
• Giz at the Gym Posted by David Rolston on Friday, May 18. 2001
• The way we were Posted by David Rolston on Thursday, March 15. 2001
• Friends Posted by David Rolston on Sunday, March 11. 2001
• Redhat RPM reference notes Posted by David Rolston on Thursday, February 15. 2001
• Mister Scrapples Posted by David Rolston on Thursday, February 15. 2001
• So long Z Posted by David Rolston on Wednesday, January 31. 2001
• The new millenium Posted by David Rolston on Wednesday, December 27. 2000
• Gizbot Posted by David Rolston on Saturday, September 30. 2000
• Crackers Posted by David Rolston on Monday, September 25. 2000
• Dog Days Posted by David Rolston on Thursday, September 21. 2000
• Wow the year has flown by Posted by David Rolston on Friday, September 15. 2000
• God I'm busy. Posted by David Rolston on Tuesday, July 18. 2000
• Z.com Launched Posted by David Rolston on Sunday, June 25. 2000
• Comedy.com Posted by David Rolston on Friday, May 12. 2000
• Z.com site debuts Posted by David Rolston on Sunday, April 23. 2000
• Z.com Posted by David Rolston on Thursday, January 27. 2000
• Alternapop Posted by David Rolston on Friday, August 27. 1999
• The domain is up and running Posted by David Rolston on Wednesday, July 28. 1999
• GizmoLA.com is born! Posted by David Rolston on Sunday, April 25. 1999