JOEL LIPMAN

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Joes Syntax Styler (JSS)
Product Documentation

Joes Syntax Styler (JSS)

Before you ask, I tried Google Prettify and Alex Gorbatchev's Syntax Highlighter but both were causing problems for the sites I wanted to use it on. Mainly because of JavaScript frameworks (like jQuery and MooTools) conflicting with other scripts but do I really need a complex solution? So here I am making my own again...

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Change the default Joomla Error template
Joomla

Change the default Joomla Error template

This is a quick article on what I change the error page for Joomla websites to. I like a clean error page, for a demo visit http://www.joellipman.com/my_error_page. Applies to Joomla 1.6.x, 1.7.x, 2.5.x How? Backup the file \templates\system\error.php Create a replacement file called error.php including the below code...

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AwStats Data Parser (ADP)
Product Documentation

AwStats Data Parser (ADP)

So it's the end of the month again and I have to prepare a report for some investors. The idea of an infographic report has excited them to no end but because the end of the month didn't wait for me to finish the project, I quickly created this program to extract all the data values from an AwStats report. Advanced Web...

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Parse a HTML Table into a ListView
Hypertext Markup Language

Parse a HTML Table into a ListView

A quick article on if you were given a webpage coded in HTML, what methods in AutoHotkey could you use to separate out the HTML Tables into a ListView.

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A picture of the Internet
Web-Development

A picture of the Internet

Just a pretty picture on how hackers have created an infographic of the internet: Source: BitBucket.Org - Internet Census 2012

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SSIS Convert a string into a date
SQL Server Integration Services

SSIS Convert a string into a date

Please note: the following article is not a solution but a page of various methods and date conversions which I try and use depending on the situation. This is a quick article on how I got time conversion working in an SSIS package which read from a text file. Note that the example below converts a string in European D...

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Restore MSSQL Error: Database is in use
Databases

Restore MSSQL Error: Database is in use

This is an article on how to do a restore from backup on a database but when you get the error: "... database is in use". -- SQL Server 2005 EXEC SP_WHO // details on who is logged in GO -- SQL Server 2008 EXEC SP_WHO2 // even more details GO -- Run as database owner to see ALL connected processes as well.

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