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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

    Groups) which actually only means some minor database alterations. I've googled, yahood and binged, but still can't find a good way to upgrade my site from Joomla version 1.5 to 1.6 so as usual I find myself writing the first migration script. Why use a...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Joomla
    • Language: *
  2. Setup a copy of your Joomla websitehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/setup-a-copy-of-your-joomla-website.html

    our clients to test these, and then a live/production environment that will be released for public use. This allows for a good test bed and stable releases, error and hopefully risk-free. How? Here's one method I used based on the services available to...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Joomla
    • Language: en-GB
  3. 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 indicating that the system can't find the core framework files. Yes the bad news is you have lost your site. The good news is that it's only the core files and component files. Here are some tips when restoring the site to return it to as it...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Joomla
    • Language: en-GB
  4. Warning: Save failed. Another menu item has the same aliashttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/warning-save-failed-another-menu-item-has-the-same-alias.html

    the top level parent You will need: Access to the Joomla Administration Panel (to check for and remove expired menu items) A good database administrator who is comfortable with making changes to the database Why? We have a page describing the company...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Joomla
    • Language: *
  5. Mediawiki Extension for Camtasia Studio SWF videoshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/mediawiki/mediawiki-extension-for-camtasia-studio-swf-videos.html

    that we converted to FLV. The quality was horrible. Then we moved to Camtasia Studio where their videos were displaying in good quality but as SWF files. This extension includes the default settings for "ExpressShow" in Camtasia Studio. My Setup...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: MediaWiki
    • Language: en-GB
  6. SSIS Skip Rows in Excel Source filehttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/ssis-skip-rows-in-excel-source-file.html?catid=74&Itemid=165

    how responses to this and opinions vary between "Microsoft Certified Professionals", just a piece of paper and proof you're good at theory IMO, no credit for being the tape monkey that does all the actual work.

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Integration Services
    • Language: en-GB
  7. SSRS Hide results table if emptyhttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/ssrs-hide-results-table-if-empty.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

    admins had not added the equipment info on the system), it just showed the heading "Equipment". Iteration in T-SQL? Unlike good old MySQL where you can do iteration within the query (SELECT @ncount:=@ncount+1), we're stuck with T-SQL. Ask Google how to...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
    • Language: en-GB
  8. SSRS Retrieving Oracle Stored Procedure Success or ErrorLevelhttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/ssrs-retrieving-oracle-stored-procedure-success-or-errorlevel.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

    or "No sorry you're going to have to go back to the beginning and try that again."... This isn't a solution that sounded good enough for our customers. The Workaround we actually went with Our Stored Procedure would check if the unique identifying...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
    • Language: en-GB
  9. How to Display Report Execution Time in SSRS (milliseconds)https://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/how-to-display-report-execution-time-in-ssrs.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

    My test results showed that in fact my time was closer to the "TimeProcessing" field of the ReportServer database, but good enough for us.

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
    • Language: en-GB
  10. SSRS Dropdown parameter cannot be blank!https://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/ssrs-dropdown-to-allow-blank-values.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

    MSDN page for the closest solution but it still didn't work for me. But the idea of inserting a NULL entry to select sounded good. Aim / Objective The plan will be to replace the default "" with a custom null entry and the end-user will be none the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
    • Language: en-GB
  11. SQL Calendar in Business Intelligence Development Studiohttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/else/database/t-sql/sql-calendar-in-business-intelligence-development-studio.html

    select Font then for color, select Expression (fx): Adding Events To do this we'll be modifying the dataset. Now would be a good time to save if you haven't yet. Let's focus on this part of the used dataset SQL script: ), Events AS ( --Create some...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Transact-SQL
    • Language: en-GB
  12. T-SQL example of Case-Sensitive Soundexhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/else/database/t-sql/t-sql-example-of-case-sensitive-soundex.html

    if there are discrepancies in our default values. Additional Note how this also picked up typos in the 4th value which is good as I didn't want to overcomplicate things using LEVENSHTEIN and DIFFERENCE: SOUNDEX('Data Not Yet Available') = SOUNDEX('Daat...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Transact-SQL
    • Language: en-GB
  13. DataTumble - Randomize Data Rowshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/else/database/t-sql/datatumble-randomize-data-rows.html

    --------- ------------ ----------- 1 Fred Bloggs 1964-02-18 2 Another User 1988-06-24 3 John Smith 1972-11-17 Looks pretty good, doesn't it? The advantages of this is that you can send this data to your developers and the data types will be correct and...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Transact-SQL
    • Language: *
  14. Fix Oracle Tnsping 3511 without Windows Registryhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/else/database/oracle-pl-sql/fix-oracle-tnsping-3511-without-windows-registry.html

    You say less than ideal, I say realistic. Quit complaining about processes and management and instead prove your worth. I'm good at what I do because I make do with what I have available and I've yet to fail in coming up with a fix/workaround. "It's a...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Oracle PL/SQL
    • Language: en-GB
  15. 301 Redirect using htaccess filehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/301-redirect-using-htaccess-file.html

    There are a lot of articles & posts out there that cover the same topic, but as this took me the good part of an hour just to find out, I'm posting it here so I never have to look for it again. A client changed their website domain address and wanted...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Web-Development
    • Language: *
  16. 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

    floor?). Why? We have a row on a website of three boxes made of div layers. When viewed normally on a 15" Laptop, all was good using Chrome and tolerable using MS Internet Explorer. If we maximized the Google Chrome browser, the row would split and...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Cascading Stylesheets
    • Language: *
  17. FTP on Mac: Failed to retrieve directory listinghttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/ftp/ftp-on-mac-failed-to-retrieve-directory-listing.html

    I browsed the existing folders by entering it in the remote directory field. Still no files or folders would show. There's a good bit of information from the source link listed below but the settings didn't solve the problem. The solution was to change...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: File Transfer Protocol
    • Language: *
  18. htaccess Rewrites SEF URL and submits to PHPhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/php/htaccess-rewrites-sef-url-and-submits-to-php.html

    back later (eg. 034, 039). Do NOT allow any punctuation you don't use in your site structure. Slashes and underscores /_ are good (so regexp: /[^a-zA-Z0-9_\/]/). If you allow percents (%) or apostrophes (*) then you are asking for trouble. Note my...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Personal Home Page
    • Language: en-GB
  19. Room with a view E.M. Forsterhttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/room-with-a-view-em-forster.html?catid=96&Itemid=165

    Thought I'd share some thoughts I was reminiscing of: "We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won't do harm--yes, choose a...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Hobbies
    • Language: *
  20. DJI Phantom FC40 - Fun at the raceshttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/dji-phantom-fc40-fun-at-the-races.html?catid=113&Itemid=165

    This is my filming of some Radio Controlled cars at the Torch Racing, UK event last Sunday. The FPV latency isn't good on this camera so it was no use here, so several challenges: No FPV: Keep the quadcopter pointed at the car. I treat it like a...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Quadcopters
    • Language: *
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