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Module Revolver Maps is a joomla module so that you can have a 3d revolving earth displaying all the places of all the website's visitors.

The admin panel lets you change settings or use the code generated by going to the people who make this at www.revolvermaps.com.

Demo:  http://demos.joellipman.com/ Download:  Click here
 


Module Quicklist Weblinks is a basic joomla extension which displays your core weblinks in a small table as a module.

You can specify in the admin panel in what order and how many.

Demo:  http://demos.joellipman.com/ Download:  Click here


Velapri .Com is a business which generates legal documents for businesses and people who don't have the time nor the resources.

We are expecting this website to not just act as a web-presence, but as an area where she can manage projects and clients. It is important that this website is modifiable by its members so that a good flow of working is exchanged.

Watch this space as we continue to develop it.


MyALN.bournemouth.ac.uk is a web-project where the original developer ended their support for the site. I was called in to fix an underlying issue which would cause it to stop working after a certain date in 2009. A team are now revamping it.

The Additional Learning Needs team at Bournemouth University use their website to reduce the paperwork and manage all the invoicing processes.

The site is restricted to staff and students only.



Green Earth .Travel is promoting a long-term vision for Travel & Tourism that encourages countries, cities, communities, companies and consumers to support the transition to the new Green Economy

This site is under development and currently running a campaign called "Live the Deal", marketed via YouTube and the United Nation World Tourism Organization.

Visit www.greenearth.travel.



Unrestricted Maze .Com is using a RocketTheme.com template with the K2 extension by JoomlaWorks. It's just a demo site for how Joomla can be used as a blogging site. There are far more features that the template has when combined with RocketTheme's extensions.

You can view it at UnrestrictedMaze.com!

Welcome to my website!

Hi Everybody!  My name is Joe.  I like to think of myself as a web-developer.  I've written websites from scratch since 1999 and I'm using this website to store notes as I go along.

It sounds nice and straightforward... Get a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, & PHP) server setup, install Joomla CMS into your web root, and you're done...  Like all talk and theory, it means nothing until you're sat there doing it.  

Hopefully this website can help you too!

 

Featured Articles

  • Module Revolver Maps

    Introduction

    Well I thought I'd write about it as it is my very first ever Joomla module.  Not just the fact that it's my very first but also because of the surprising popularity.  It has been featured as a "New & Noteworthy" extension on the front page of the Joomla.org Extensions website for about a week now.  There have been several positive reviews but more astonishingly over 1,000 downloads in 10 days!  May not be much to some people but for my first Joomla extension, I've been quite impressed.

    This module doesn't really need more documentation as it was created for fun for a friend.  To be quite honest,

    1. you could get the generated code that revolvermaps.com give you,
    2. go into your Joomla admin panel,
    3. create a custom module,
    4. make sure you click on "Source" (so that it isn't in WYSIWYG mode) and
    5. paste the code.  

    This extension just does all that for you in its install and you just play with the parameters.

    I felt that if I make this an article, then anonymous users can leave a comment.  If you are a registered Joomla.org user, you can go to "http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/site-management/visitor-maps/13254" and leave official reviews and comments there as well.

    in Joomla CMS Tags: Module Joomla CMS Extensions
  • Webdeveloper-Speak

    I don't usually write an article on another site but I came across it and rather than just add it to my weblinks section, I thought I'd give it a little more credit.

    "Motive is a web design and development agency based in Wellington, New Zealand providing consultation, website design, development and usability evaluation services."

    Their website has initiated a Web Definition Glossary (there are others but this one's got that "kiwi" approach)

    A few terms I wanted to list up:

    "above the fold" or "before-the-scroll" The part of a webpage that is visible in the web browser window when the page first loads is described as being ‘above-the-fold’.
    "belt-and-suspenders" Just like the UK's idiom "belt-and-braces", ‘Belt-and-suspenders’ describes an approach to web design where provision has been made for more than one method of achieving a satisfactory outcome.
    typosquatter A typosquatter is a company/individual that registers the misspelling of a popular website address, either to increase advertising revenue or as a form of parody/social criticism.
    initialism
    An initialism is a phrase or multi-word name that has been abbreviated to the first letter of each word, and is pronounced as a series of individual letters.  For example HTML (the computer language used to author webpages), is an initialism of HyperText Markup Language, and is pronounced: “H-T-M-L”.  (Um... think I just call these acronyms myself).
    permission-based marketing An opt-in policy requires a potential customer to self-select the services they wish to subscribe to, and how any information they provide may be used. Also referred to as permission-based marketing.
    Section 508 Section 508 is an amendment to the United States Workforce Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Signed into law in 1998, this legislation requires that electronic and information technology developed or purchased by the US Federal Government is accessible by people with disabilities.

     

    I'm going to stop there but do check them out at http://www.motive.co.nz/index.php

    in Web-Development Tags: Web Links Web Accessibility Guidelines
  • Error during processing - Converting Date/Time

    Well I find myself again the dummie of the Internet.  I basically came across this error and STFW'd for ages following complex T-SQL Timestamp conversions but to no avail.  Not saying that you shouldn't try their solutions but just check you haven't done this silly mistake.

    I'm only guessing the same error would happen in Report Builder 2.0 which I've stopped using as my day job wants us to use Business Intelligence Development Studio for all our SQL Server Analysis Service (SSAS) and Reporting Service (SSRS) projects/solutions.  The features and interface are very similar when developing reports though.

    The error I get is

    An error occurred during local report processing.
    An error has occurred during report processing.
    Cannot read the next data row for the dataset DataSet1.
    Conversion failed when converting date and/or time from character string.

    in Reporting Services Tags: SSRS SQL Server 2008 Business Intelligence BIDS
  • Joe's Unduplicater

    Joe's Unduplicater (Updated v1.01: 2010-07-12) TESTED ON:

    - Windows XP, Windows 7

     

    SCREENSHOT:

     

     

    LICENSE:

    These scripts are offered freely and in good faith. Please do not pass this off as your own work or try to sell it without due credit. Check back with us at joellipman.com for updates/fixes. If you want more support/work done to it, you could consider a donation :c)

     

    BACKGROUND:

    OK, it's not the best name for a program but so what? Basically this is the third time I wrote this program, simply because I reghost all my computers (Home & Work) each year and can't be bothered to retrieve accidentally deleted programs from my backup drives. I downloaded a load of media files (all legitimately :) and stored them inmy music folder. I then run my MP3 software to convert all the files into MP3 format and store these in another folder. I needed a program to:

    1. Check the final folder for all the MP3 filenames
    2. Check the original folder for the same filename (BUT NOT necessarily with the same filename extension)
    3. Delete the original file if I have the MP3 version as well

    Why didn't I just convert the lot and delete everything in the original folder? Well what if I don't? Then I have to go through a few hundred files manually checking that I have the converted version and deleting the original.

    in AutoHotkey Tags: free Unduplicater Ignore File Extensions
  • Blank columns issue when exporting to Excel (Data Only) from Crystal Reports

    Following up on my article on correcting disappearing headers, a further issue with our web-report is that even an export to Excel (Data Only) from Crystal Reports 9, created extra columns.  This issue could not be replicated on the client machine (ie. from my workstation).  I would have to upload the report to the server, configure the web application to use the newly uploaded report, export to a Crystal Report, which in turn we export to Excel:

    Note that as this from within a web application, there are no extra options or dialogs to select.  The export had to work from this point on.  I can't take any credit for the below as it was copied from http://hosteddocs.ittoolbox.com/ST030504.pdf.  A "Crystal Decisions" documentation.

    in Reporting Services Tags: Report Builder 2.0 Crystal Reports MS Excel Export

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