T-SQL: Parse an XML valuehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/t-sql-parse-an-xml-value.html

27 March 2014 This took me a while to find so I've posted an article below detailing how to parse or extract values from a string containing XML code. Why? I'm working with a system which stores XML strings in a database and rather than a separate file, it stores...

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

Hide a Drive per User in Windows 7https://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/windows-os/hide-a-drive-per-user-in-windows-7.html

28 March 2014 one is by modifying the system registry, so if you aren't familiar with the system registry in MS Windows, you may need to find someone who is. How? As a proof of concept, let's see how to hide a specific drive. Note that this section applies to the...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Windows OS
• Language: *

301 Redirect using htaccess filehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/301-redirect-using-htaccess-file.html

03 April 2014 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 any...

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

Batch Process to rename multiple files using Windows DOShttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/automation/ms-dos/batch-process-to-rename-multiple-files-using-windows-dos.html

09 August 2014 (Copy)=!" ECHO Renaming !oldName! to !newName! RENAME "!oldName!" "!newName!" ) This code will rename the files. I did not find a way to undo so just run the first code to double-check what you're about to do. Save and Close the notepad file Return to...

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

SITS: Export field code and namehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/xml/sits-export-field-code-and-name.html

12 August 2014 blank. -- possibly use "-1|*LookupFailed*" for the error to come through the XSLT but watch your datatypes Notes: We did not find a way to return the code when the lookup failed, only an alternative message "*LookupFailed*".

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Extensible Markup Language
• Language: *

Add attribute xsl:nil=true on empty elements using XSLThttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/xml/xslt/add-attribute-xsl-nil-true-on-empty-elements-using-xslt.html

18 August 2014 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 this has little worth, but on dates which could be NULL, this was necessary (unless we...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: XML Stylesheet Language Transformations
• Language: *

A quick run through of setting up an export process in SITShttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/xml/a-quick-run-through-of-setting-up-an-export-process-in-sits.html

21 August 2014 (DOT, EOT, TOT) last and after setting up all the pre-requisites in SITS first: What changes will trigger the event? Find the screen you know contains the field to monitor, in this example, it will be the Application Clearance and Decision Entry (ACD)...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Extensible Markup Language
• Language: *

Quadcopter App with Flight Restrictions (JQA)https://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/quadcopter-app.html?catid=40

24 October 2014 by the api.openweathermap.org website. There are plans to shift this to using Google Services as they are more likely to find locations that openweathermap.org cannot. Add a comma and the two letter country code (preferably "iso-3166-1 alpha-2") to the...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Product Documentation
• Language: *

Android Java: Remove first two entries from Google News feed in SimpleRssReaderhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/google/androidos/android-java-remove-first-two-entries-from-google-news-feed-in-simplerssreader.html

24 October 2014 gist is to check for a description (the first two items do not have one). The following will also return a publishing date: Find the List function in: PcWorldRssParser.java (readFeed) and replace with private List readFeed(XmlPullParser parser) throws...

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

Android: Keytool and Google Maps displaying greyhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/google/androidos/android-keytool-and-google-maps-displaying-grey.html

31 October 2014 or Advanced system settings Select the Advanced tab Click on the Environment Variables... button Under "System variables" find the PATH variable and add the JDK bin folder you noted earlier: Click on OK and close the respective dialogs (note that...

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

TravelPort Universal API - Ping Request with PHP-cURLhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/automation/api-misc/travelport-universal-api-ping-request-with-php-curl.html

27 April 2015 you with but it didn't help. The error I'm going to address has to do with getting the latest schemas but as I couldn't find anything using Google regarding these errors or how to set up a basic ping request, I thought I'd write this article. How? Using...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: API Miscellaneous
• Language: *

Migrating from Joomla 2.5.x to 3.4.xhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/migrating-from-joomla-2-5-x-to-3-4-x.html

12 September 2015 for reference for myself. Their purpose are for quick tweaks to the database values after a migration. -- Replace stringtofind with the string you want to find -- Replace stringtoreplace with the string you want to replace with -- REPLACE FROM A...

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

Sort an associative array by values in Javascripthttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/js/sort-an-associative-array-by-values-in-javascript.html

29 September 2015 What? 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...

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

Foreign Characters create symbols in PHP and MySQLhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/php/foreign-characters-create-symbols-in-php-and-mysql.html

25 January 2016 Did I miss anything? So none of the above worked. If there is another solution out there, I didn't find one that worked otherwise I'd have included it in this article. How? The fix is a PHP one and has to do with versions of PHP and MySQL. As quoted by...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Personal Home Page
• Language: en-GB

Windows Live Mail Error ID: 0x8DE00005https://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/windows-os/windows-live-mail-error-id-0x8de00005.html

14 December 2016 (changing the log-on username to your own): The downloading of all your folders will take a while so don't panic if you find empty folders. Doing a 'send/receive' will bring up the dialog showing its progress. Source: Windows Live Mail and Outlook Mail...

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

Google Authentication - OAuth 2.0 using PHP/cURLhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/google/google-authentication-oauth-2-0-using-php-curl.html

31 October 2018 a big cop-out as I simply took someone else's functions and upgraded them to use the mentioned token based authentication. I find myself going through the motion and designing on a per-app basis so I wanted a standard way of doing it and I'll update...

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

Zoho Templates - Font size is inexplicably tinyhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-templates-font-size-is-inexplicably-tiny.html

22 February 2019 in your HTML — this will be something like img src="https://crm.zoho.com/viewInLineImage?fileContent=: You should find your code now previews at a normal font size. Step #2 Create your template without uploading images and style with your CSS....

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

CSS Add Text to Breadcrumb Link with a Transitionhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/css/css-add-text-to-breadcrumb-link-with-a-transition.html

18 May 2019 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 example demonstrating this so here's my take on it: What I have » Home / Products / Lanterns What I want (on...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Cascading Stylesheets
• Language: *

Zoho Deluge - Counting in a Map dataTypehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-counting-in-a-map.html

02 September 2019 this to work and I'm not sure if there are better ways of counting so I'm documenting it to see if I can refine the code or find a some short codes that will do the same. Why? I'm aiming to automate a process which counts the number of products...

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

Zoho Deluge - First Monday of Month or Last Tuesday of Monthhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-first-monday-of-month-or-last-tuesday-of-month.html

27 September 2019 is called "Switch_Over_Day". For the first Monday, we are going to select the first day of the month and then loop until we find a Monday. Same for the last Tuesday except that we will count backwards from the end of the month:...

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