Thank You!https://www.joellipman.com/static-items/thank-you.html

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• Author: Joel Lipman
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T-SQL example of Case-Sensitive Soundexhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/t-sql-example-of-case-sensitive-soundex.html

10 October 2012 What? This article is for demonstrating how to use a SOUNDEX in a select and then listing all the variations based on case-sensitivity. Why? We have a database with data in it. For a particular column we have setup default values, let's use the example...

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

Sync Outlook 2007 Shared Calendar with SharePoint 2007https://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/sharepoint/sync-outlook-2007-shared-calendar-with-sharepoint-2007.html

09 November 2012 What? I misunderstood what was going to happen when I started this. We have a SharePoint 2007 site and we have been asked to migrate links and calendar from an existing system. I was worried when following other instructions because I thought my...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: SharePoint
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Adding a selectable background to a Yootheme templatehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/adding-a-selectable-background-to-a-yootheme-template.html

19 November 2012 Applies to: Joomla 2.5.8 Yootheme Template 2012 What? For any web-developer who can program in PHP/HTML, this would be easy to hard-code and override. However, the article below demonstrates how to make this an option that your client can switch off/on...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Joomla
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Background Gradient Disappears on Long Pageshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/css/background-disappears-on-long-pages.html

20 November 2012 What? 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...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Cascading Stylesheets
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Generate Academic Calendar using MySQLhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/generate-academic-calendar-using-mysql.html

27 November 2012 What? We have a specific timetabling system for academic institutions and all our staff/students follow academic week numbers as opposed to calendar week numbers. Why? The aim of this article is to quickly generate a calendar for a full academic year...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: MySQL
• Language: en-GB

Battery Constantly Drained on iPhonehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/apple/battery-constantly-drained-on-iphone.html

27 November 2012 Event 1 A friend reported her phone was constantly being drained, wasn't lasting the day on a full charge and knew how to close apps running in the background (double-click "home" button and hold down app until red minus buttons appear, tap red...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Apple
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Licence GNU/GPLhttps://www.joellipman.com/static-items/licence-gnugpl.html

03 April 2009 GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3, 29 June 2007 Copyright © 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. Preamble The GNU General Public...

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DataTumble - Randomize Data Rowshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/datatumble-randomize-data-rows.html

07 December 2012 What? This is a stored procedure I've nabbed from some consultants from my day job. It shuffles the records and matching data values: Before: ID Name DateOfBirth --------- ------------ ----------- 1 John Smith 1988-06-24 2 Fred Bloggs 1972-11-17 3...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Transact-SQL
• Language: *

DataScramble - Randomizing data rowshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/datascramble-randomizing-data-rows.html

07 December 2012 What? Along with my DataJumble function and DataTumble procedure which also help scramble database tables sent to suppliers/developers, this is a function which simply finds random characters and inserts these. I would recommend using the DataTumble...

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

Joes Revolver Map (JRM)https://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/joes-revolver-map-jrm.html?catid=40

07 December 2012 Instructions: Visit the website http://revolvermaps.com/?target=setup Configure the map to the settings you want. Copy the ID reference as per the "Important Note" below. Login to your Joomla website admin panel Install this module as per usual (will...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Product Documentation
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Error 1065: Query was Emptyhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/error-1065-query-was-empty.html

13 December 2012 What? In view of the fact that this error pops up in so many systems I take over, I have often gone down the wrong path following the red herring as it were when in fact the answer to this is very common. Why? Bespoke systems are the usual suspects....

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

19 December 2012 What? More for others than for myself, but this article is for those who do not have development/test environments of their Joomla website. I have been doing this for years and still come across clients who have the one version of their website. They...

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

Upgrading a Joomla 1.5 module to Joomla 2.5https://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/upgrade-a-joomla-1-5-module-to-joomla-1-6.html

11 February 2011 What? So this is a note to myself so that I have a checklist and can quickly update any extensions designed for Joomla 1.5.x and make these compatible with Joomla 2.5.x websites. In the past, I have only ever changed the words to but for more stability,...

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

Delete related records from multiple tableshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/delete-related-records-from-multiple-tables.html

11 January 2013 What? So this is a quick article on how to delete from multiple tables in a mySQL database where we use some JOIN statements. Why? It is never recommended to delete from multiple tables and instead to use the system you were given. Given a Relational...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: MySQL
• Language: *

Three boxes, two roll over, one falls outhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/css/three-boxes-two-roll-over-one-falls-out.html

21 January 2013 What? 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....

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Cascading Stylesheets
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Set up Desktop SlideShow in Windows 7https://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/windows-os/set-up-desktop-slideshow-in-windows-7.html

22 January 2013 What? 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...

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

Proposed Budget i3 PC under £200https://www.joellipman.com/hardware/proposed-budget-i3-pc-under-200.html

26 January 2013 i3 workstation upgrade running Windows 7 So another year gone and our workstations running Windows 7 are somewhat lagging when opening too many apps. The recent release of Windows 8 has led to a review of our developer's equipment and the verdict is...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: IT Support
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JDatabase: using the Joomla database with exampleshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/jdatabase-using-the-joomla-database.html

27 January 2013 ->set(array($db->quoteName('name') . '=\'Joël\'', $db->quoteName('username') . '=\'joel.lipman\'')) ->where(array($db->quoteName('user_id') . '=42')); $db->setQuery($query); $result = $db->query(); INSERT using JDatabaseDriver Here's an alternative...

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

CharIndex Reverse - find occurrence starting from end of string in TSQLhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/charindex-reverse-find-occurrence-starting-from-end-of-string-in-tsql.html

28 January 2013 What? This is a quick note on finding the last occurrence of a string in a longer string. This has to be in Transact SQL for a SQL Server instance only and not filtered by other code. Why? I have a string such as the following (column positions added...

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