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  1. Call to a member function mark() on a non-object in Joomla CMShttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/call-to-a-member-function-mark-on-a-non-object.html

    This is a quick note on one reason you may get the above error in a Joomla CMS environment. Call to a member function mark() on a non-object in /public_html/index.php How? Not really a solution here because this is indicating that the system can't find...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Joomla
    • Language: en-GB
  2. Report Builder 2.0 - Hide Series1https://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/report-builder-20-hide-series1.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

    searched the WWW for a solution and couldn't find it. The work around I've documented is a "solution" to my situation and environment. Our setup is: SQL Server 2008 Report Builder 2.0 BMC Service Desk Express 9.8 DataSet1: Incident # Group Name Close...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
    • Language: en-GB
  3. SSRS / MDX Date Querieshttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/ssrs-mdx-date-queries.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

    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), SSRS 2008 R2. The following examples assume today's date is Wednesday 03 August 2011 @...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
    • Language: en-GB
  4. SSRS Zero Paddinghttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/ssrs-zero-padding.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

    within an MDX query. The Situation We have a database using Oracle 10g, and a SQL Server Reporting Services v2008 R2 environment. My use for this was when displaying an audit log displaying the oracle errors. Oracle Errors An Oracle error usually...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
    • Language: *
  5. SSRS: Performance Improvements: SELECT TOPhttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/ssrs-performance-improvements-select-top.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

    This article details a method we used on a search form in a SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) environment. The requirement (amongst others) was that the report ran in less than a few seconds. Analyzing the report through the ReportServer databases...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
    • Language: en-GB
  6. Running Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8 as standaloneshttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/running-internet-explorer-6-7-8-as-standalones.html?catid=80&Itemid=165

    browsers. If I was at home I'd just use Virtual PC with Windows7 but my customers are on XP and I have to emulate their environment as accurately as I can which I can do by setting up my work computer to be just like theirs (using the same image, etc)....

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Windows OS
    • Language: *
  7. Set up Desktop SlideShow in Windows 7https://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/set-up-desktop-slideshow-in-windows-7.html?catid=80&Itemid=165

    Applies to Windows 7. Requires a Vogonian environment of red tape and bureaucracy. This is an article to describe an alternative method then "right-clicking on the desktop", "selecting Personalize", "clicking on Desktop Background", "browsing to the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Windows OS
    • Language: en-GB
  8. Administrator Program Shortcut without Prompthttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/administrator-program-shortcut-without-prompt.html?catid=80&Itemid=165

    by the Windows operating system. At home this may not be a problem but this is intended for those in an office environment and we get prompted to login (with the same account as we're currently logged-in with???) instead of being able to just click on...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Windows OS
    • Language: *
  9. Windows 10: Shortcut Apps to Settingshttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/windows-10-shortcut-apps-to-settings.html?catid=80&Itemid=165

    Mixed Reality (requires Mixed Reality Portal app) Audio and speech ms-settings:holographic-audio Environment ms-settings:privacy-holographic-environment Headset display ms-settings:holographic-headset Uninstall ms-settings:holographic-management Network...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Windows OS
    • Language: *
  10. Search a database for a string (MySQL, T-SQL)https://www.joellipman.com/articles/else/database/search-a-database-for-a-string-mysql-t-sql.html

    string of word(s). I've posted my own as well as some others I've lifted from elsewhere, as they worked with my environment, to put them in one place on a website I've bookmarked (my personal site :c) My own with Typos Note that the below only prints...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Databases
    • Language: en-GB
  11. Search a database with SOUNDEXhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/else/database/search-a-database-with-soundex.html

    matching DNYA. -- values it did NOT pick up were words like "dayname" and "dynamite". Additional Notes Our database and environment need to be in British English, the collation used in the example above is where the server is set to...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Databases
    • Language: en-GB
  12. T-SQL DateTimestampshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/else/database/t-sql/t-sql-datetimestamps.html

    databases.aspfaq.com but the convert numbers didn't correspond to the output formats. This is my list created within my environment and setup (see above).

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Transact-SQL
    • Language: en-GB
  13. No rows returned in Oracle causes SP to failhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/else/database/oracle-pl-sql/no-rows-returned-in-oracle-causes-sp-to-fail.html

    which has an empty result set. Furthermore I am using this stored procedure in a SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) environment and don't want to return any rows if there are no matches (not a blank row either) as one of my reports uses a row counter...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Oracle PL/SQL
    • Language: en-GB
  14. Project Plan for Freelance Websitehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/project-plan-for-freelance-website.html

    I could apply the PRINCE2 (Projects in a controlled environment) methodology to website projects but most people find this overwhelming. It's in business techno babble and I get asked what does this mean in stage 1? And this in stage 2? (There are over...

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

    client's brief for the project? (project mandate/charter/initiation document - the spec) Details on the Development Environment (is there a TEST system and deployment procedure in place?) Known Issues/Bugs (is there an "Issues Log"? Anything that still...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Web-Development
    • Language: *
  16. Using a HTML form and PHP to upload a filehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/php/using-a-html-form-and-php-to-upload-a-file.html

    field type of 'FILE' (ie. ) and want a PHP file to process this. This example applies to a Linux Apache MySQL PHP (LAMP) environment. The Solution 1. The first thing to do is check that your HTML form is setup to do this:...... The form above will...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Personal Home Page
    • Language: en-GB
  17. SITS: Export field code and namehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/xml/sits-export-field-code-and-name.html

    manuals but it took me a while, we wanted to bring back both the code and the lookup value in our XML to our Staging environment. Why? Let's take the country of birth of a person as an example as it is expected to be a long list and where just using the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Extensible Markup Language
    • Language: *
  18. A quick run through of setting up an export process in SITShttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/xml/a-quick-run-through-of-setting-up-an-export-process-in-sits.html

    monitors Log in to your application server and create the shortcuts to run the monitors (this is as per our development environment) The DOT Monitor should have a shortcut similar to the following:D:\Applications\siapp\vision\dev\uniface\bin\uniface.exe...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Extensible Markup Language
    • Language: *
  19. Add attribute xsl:nil=true on empty elements using XSLThttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/xml/xslt/add-attribute-xsl-nil-true-on-empty-elements-using-xslt.html

    providing a blank date of birth value: -- What I have: // -- What I want: Why? Outputting from SITS:Vision to our staging environment, the application would only output blank values using single tags so we had to find a place to introduce it. On strings...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: XML Stylesheet Language Transformations
    • Language: *
  20. $_SERVER['http_referer'] returns blank in Internet Explorerhttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/serverhttpreferer-returns-blank-in-internet-explorer.html?catid=62&Itemid=165

    Thought I'd put a note about this as I spent ages rewriting an entire system. The HTTP_REFERER environment variable can be changed by the user anyway but I was using it as an additional validation check. The only solution is to not use it for...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Microsoft
    • Language: en-GB
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