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  1. Migrate Joomla! 1.5.x to 2.5.x+https://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/migrating-from-joomla-15-to-16.html

    Update June 2013 - How to use this migration script: Make a backup copy of your old Joomla website (1.5.x) Download and install the latest Joomla CMS Go through the Joomla Web-based Installation GUI until the process deletes the Installation folder....

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Joomla
    • Language: *
  2. Excel: convert degrees minutes seconds to decimalhttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/excel-convert-degrees-minutes-seconds-to-decimal.html?catid=110&Itemid=165

    What? A quick article on how to get the value of 40°4′20″N 116°35′51″E into 40.079857, 116.603112. How? Let's pretend all the names are in column A, in Column B I have the coordinates that I want to convert: A B -------------------------------------...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Excel
    • Language: en-GB
  3. Generate Academic Calendar using MySQLhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/else/database/mysql/generate-academic-calendar-using-mysql.html

    What? We have a specific timetabling system for academic institutions and all our staff/students follow academic week numbers as opposed to calendar week numbers. Why? The aim of this article is to quickly generate a calendar for a full academic year...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: MySQL
    • Language: en-GB
  4. Win32 Constantshttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/win32-constants.html?catid=48&Itemid=165

    Apologies for copying this from another source but with lots of OpenSource developers disappearing and reappearing, the content is what I don't want to lose. ;// ;// Win32 Constants ;// ;#region Peek Message Flags Const PM_NOREMOVE = 0 Const PM_REMOVE =...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: AutoHotkey
    • Language: *
  5. AHK Countdown Tooltiphttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/ahk-countdown-tooltip.html?catid=48&Itemid=165

    Applies to: Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise AutoHotkey (see code for AHK version) What? Someone suggested an app that counts the days I have left serving my notice. I thought I'd go one better and have it calculate to the nearest second. I call this...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: AutoHotkey
    • Language: *
  6. T-SQL Record Separatorhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/else/database/t-sql/t-sql-record-separator.html

    I have googled, binged and asked but to no avail. Some self-proclaimed IT experts in forums said "why would you want to do that?". Unhelpful Bellends. It's a bit like asking me "Why can't I turn on my computer" and me replying "why would you want to do...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Transact-SQL
    • Language: en-GB
  7. Parameters not being used in report processinghttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/parameters-not-being-used-in-report-processing.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

    Once again I've spent a whole morning going in the wrong direction with a convincing SQL script. This article is just a note on when using Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS) or Report Builder 2.0 and when previewing the report, the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
    • Language: en-GB
  8. ZohoCRM & Xero: Function to pull most recent invoiceshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm/zohocrm-xero-function-to-pull-most-recent-invoices.html

    What? Thought I already had an article on this and I know my article Zoho Deluge - Connect to Xero API covered a quick query to pull some invoices but this one documents a pull and mapping into CRM invoices. Why? This took me a whole afternoon so I...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Zoho CRM
    • Language: *
  9. Zoho Deluge - Get English Ordinalhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge/zoho-deluge-get-english-ordinal.html

    What? This is a very quick note with the code to determine the English ordinal of a date (eg. "st" of "1st"). So in a date, instead of "Tuesday, 6 November 2018", I could want "Tuesday 6th of November 2018". Why? Well there's a long a way to do it (but...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Zoho Deluge
    • Language: *
  10. Zoho Deluge: Today, Tomorrow, Day After but Skip Sundayhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge/zoho-deluge-today,-tomorrow,-day-after-but-skip-sunday.html

    What? A very quick article with a snippet of code to get today's date, tomorrow's, and the day after's but it has to skip Sundays. Why? Wanting to create a schedule for availability over the next few days which needs to dynamically change. I am aware of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Zoho Deluge
    • Language: *
  11. ZohoCRM to ZohoBooks API: Rounding the cents or pennies when creating an invoicehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-books/zohocrm-to-zohobooks-api-half-a-cent-or-penny-off-when-creating-an-invoice.html

    What? A frustrated article about an issue that took me a fair few hours to resolve. So I'm putting it here as I thought I covered this previously but couldn't find it on my website. This was previously titled something along the lines of truncating to 2...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Zoho Books
    • Language: *
  12. ZohoCRM & Xero: Function to pull most recent quoteshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm/zohocrm-xero-function-to-pull-most-recent-quotes.html

    What? A follow-on article from my previous article ZohoCRM & Xero: Function to pull most recent invoices - along with their Contacts and Items (accounts/contact & products respectively). Why? This took me so much longer than I thought it would. It was...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Zoho CRM
    • Language: *
  13. Zoho Deluge: Regex Rounding and/or Removing Trailing Zeroshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge/zoho-deluge-regex-rounding-and-or-removing-trailing-zeros.html

    up but pays attention to where the decimal point is: v_Test3 = 12.000; info v_Test3.toString().replaceAll("^(^-?\\d+\\.\\d*[1-9])(0+$)|(\\.0+$)", "$1", false); // yields 12 v_Test4 = 12.300; info...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Zoho Deluge
    • Language: *
  14. SSRS / MDX Date Querieshttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/ssrs-mdx-date-queries.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

    So I find myself using date ranges endlessly as I've been working in SSRS. The below is derived from a collection of various sources across the web as well as some of my own. These are what worked in my environment: WinXP, BIDS (vs2008), TFS (vs2010),...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
    • Language: en-GB
  15. Zoho People: Reject an Application for Leave in Deluge based on Criteriahttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-people/zoho-people-reject-an-application-for-leave-in-deluge.html

    What? This article documents how to stop an employee from applying for leave when already 80% of their team have already booked the same date off. My brief was: Check the department this employee belongs to Search for employees of the same department...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Zoho People
    • Language: *
  16. Zoho Deluge: Date from a String (dd/MM/yyyy to yyyy-MM-dd)https://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge/zoho-deluge-date-from-a-string-dd-mm-yyyy-to-yyyy-mm-dd.html

    What? A quick article to remind me of the regex to change a date from the format dd/MM/yyyy to yyyy-MM-dd. Why? Irrespective of server, organization or user settings, the date handling can vary. If we are getting a date from a CSV or other external...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Zoho Deluge
    • Language: *
  17. Zoho Deluge: Convert Xero Date (Unix Timestamp) to Standard Date Stringhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge/zoho-deluge-convert-xero-date-unix-timestamp-to-standard-date-string.html

    What? So this is a super quick note that I'll probably remember anyway but just in case, I'm writing this article so I don't spend time researching it later. Why? I'm synchronizing Xero Invoices with Zoho CRM Invoices and noticed that Xero stores its...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Zoho Deluge
    • Language: *
  18. SSIS Script: convert UPPERCASE to Mixed-Case using TitleCasehttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/ssis-script-convert-uppercase-to-mixed-case-using-titlecase.html?catid=74&Itemid=165

    Applies to: Microsoft Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS) Visual Studio 2008 Microsoft Windows 7 Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Microsoft Visual C# 2008 What? So like lots of people on the net, I've been given a datasource with names and...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Integration Services
    • Language: en-GB
  19. Display Feeds to major Social Networkshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/display-feeds-to-major-social-networks.html

    What? A quick article on how I displayed feeds from the company's social network pages in one page. Why? There are 3rd-party apps that let you do this, some paid, some not. This was for a staff portal so I wanted this at no extra cost. This is read-only...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Web-Development
    • Language: *
  20. Split a row into multiple rows based on a column valuehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/else/database/t-sql/split-a-row-into-multiple-rows-based-on-a-column-value.html

    Applies to Transact-SQL (T-SQL) What? This is a quick article on how to split a single row into multipe rows based on the value of a column in the same table. Why? I have a table that has all the days of sickness of employees. This table contains, which...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Transact-SQL
    • Language: *
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