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  1. Convert foreign characters to English alphabethttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/else/database/mysql/convert-foreign-characters-to-english-alphabet.html

    A quick article showing my MySQL statement when I want to remove all the accents from foreign characters and return the English equivalent. Why? A content management system (CMS) that I'm working on has just gone international and started including the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: MySQL
    • Language: *
  2. MySQL: Count occurrences of words in a columnhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/else/database/mysql/mysql-count-occurrences-of-words-in-a-column.html

    This is an article to document how to output the most frequently used words in a MySQL database column. How? Note this only applies to MySQL. So the following query will return a count of each word in your database column by order of most used first...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: MySQL
    • Language: *
  3. Project Plan for Freelance Websitehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/project-plan-for-freelance-website.html

    will be included in terms of features (calendar, polls, login, etc) Progress Update and Review Website Page Layout Standard article / presentation page Contact form(s) Discuss page types with module layouts Template customization and branding. Apply to...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Web-Development
    • Language: *
  4. Webdeveloper-Speakhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/webdeveloper-speak.html

    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...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Web-Development
    • Language: *
  5. Difference between two dates - the midnight hourhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/difference-between-two-dates-the-midnight-hour.html

    might already have something similar to this but this deserves its own article. Why? Well try to search the web for a PHP/MySQL solution which suggests on how to count the hours between two times on the same date, when one of the hours is on the other...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Web-Development
    • Language: *
  6. Developer's Checklist: Taking over a projecthttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/developers-checklist-taking-over-a-project.html

    people have been asking if I can take over a project that has been abandoned by its developer. I've started writing this article because I find myself forgetting to ask something that could have saved an infinite number of man-hours (I exaggerate a...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Web-Development
    • Language: *
  7. What's the problem? Amusing computer issueshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/whats-the-problem-amusing-computer-reports.html

    If you're not an IT person, you may want to avoid reading the rest of this article in case you're easily offended. It's just an amusing stab at customers computer issues. Note that most of the below were remote support jobs so we weren't there in...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Web-Development
    • Language: *
  8. Display Feeds to major Social Networkshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/display-feeds-to-major-social-networks.html

    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 so...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Web-Development
    • Language: *
  9. CSS keeping the footer at the bottomhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/css/css-keeping-the-footer-at-the-bottom.html

    enough time trying different methods across the web but only 1 article worked for me using the "push" div layer. Loosely based on Ryanfait: Make a Footer Stick to the Bottom of the Page Aim: Header Left Right Footer Situation The header displayed fine....

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Cascading Stylesheets
    • Language: en-GB
  10. Background Gradient Disappears on Long Pageshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/css/background-disappears-on-long-pages.html

    This is a quick article on how to resolve the following issue: Overall body background color is blue. Background color of my contents is white. When I visit a small page on the site, the contents background (white) shows. When I visit a very long page...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Cascading Stylesheets
    • Language: *
  11. Three boxes, two roll over, one falls outhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/css/three-boxes-two-roll-over-one-falls-out.html

    So this is an article to note an oddity when I was working with a Yootheme template called "yoo_sync". Some clever scripts (both mootools and jquery) using the equalize method to make div layers the same height, and in this case, the same width. It...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Cascading Stylesheets
    • Language: *
  12. MySQL Oracle equivalentshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/else/database/mysql-oracle-equivalents.html

    title of this article implies something rather odd and upcoming considering that Sun Microsystems bought MySQL and Oracle bought Sun. But in fact, this is just a quick list of some regular commands in MySQL that I need in Oracle: Objective MySQL Oracle...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Databases
    • Language: en-GB
  13. MySQL Group_concat equivalent in T-SQL and Oraclehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/else/database/mysql-groupconcat-equivalent-in-t-sql-and-oracle.html

    see myself doing any other job and it beats daytime television any day. I use this quite a lot so I thought I'd put an article here somewhere. Based on the following concept: RowID column_to_return_as_string --------- -------------------------- 1 Me 2...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Databases
    • Language: en-GB
  14. Modifying columns in a tablehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/else/database/modifying-columns-in-a-table.html

    This is an article to remind me how to modify a column in a database table the old fashioned way (as in stop making me use GUI interfaces so poorly programmed when even I've made better DBMS tools). All SQL -- Add a column to an existing table (giving...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Databases
    • Language: *
  15. CSS Add Text to Breadcrumb Link with a Transitionhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/css/css-add-text-to-breadcrumb-link-with-a-transition.html

    This is an article I hope to refine one day where given a set of breadcrumb hyperlinks, when I hover the mouse over the links, the text changes and the transition between the two is controlled smoothly. Why? At time of print, I couldn't find any clear...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Cascading Stylesheets
    • Language: *
  16. CSS Ordered List 1, 1.1...1.10 Formatting and Alignmenthttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/css/css-ordered-list-1-1-1-1-10-formatting-and-alignment.html

    A quick article to remind me on how create an multi-level ordered list that indents and aligns correctly. Why? I'm finding that I need to do this quite often for some clients who want to include their terms and conditions in quote/invoice templates and...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Cascading Stylesheets
    • Language: en-GB
  17. CSS Center an iFrame Horizontally and Verticallyhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/css/css-center-an-iframe-horizontally-and-vertically.html

    So this is a quick article to demo how to center an iframe horizontally and vertically in a screen/viewport in pure CSS (no JavaScript allowed). This CSS centers it by its center point rather than the top/bottom/left/right outline. Why? On a mobile, a...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Cascading Stylesheets
    • Language: en-GB
  18. Parse a HTML Table into a ListViewhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/html/parse-a-html-table-into-a-listview.html

    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. Why? I want a snippet of code that replicates any HTML table. How? I've been trying various ways so...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Hypertext Markup Language
    • Language: en-GB
  19. Sort an associative array by values in Javascripthttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/js/sort-an-associative-array-by-values-in-javascript.html

    An article on how to quickly adapt an array code and sort by its values. Surprising how many examples are on the web and everyone saying you're doing it wrong... Which is true but quite unhelpful. The original code is not my own either but that's not an...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: JavaScript
    • Language: *
  20. Slideshow div layer through a windowhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/mootools/slideshow-div-layer-through-a-window.html

    incomplete! Will post a final solution but here are the basics What? This article is a quick note to myself on the idea of a slideshow with the MooTools javascript framework. Basically, I want to create a div layer that I can see through (like a window...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: MooTools Framework
    • Language: *
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