DJI Phantom FC40 Paint-Job and AerialFreaks Cyclops FC40 Gimbal Upgradehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/_other-misc/quadcopters/dji-phantom-fc40-paint-job-and-aerialfreaks-cyclops-fc40-gimbal-upgrade.html

04 September 2014 I decided to repair the hull integrity of my DJI Phantom FC40 after a crash and sorta had the day off so... There are so many pictures because I wanted to be sure I could put it back together again, I'd recommend anyone who doesn't have a photographic...

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

DJI Phantom FC40 - Fun at the raceshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/_other-misc/quadcopters/dji-phantom-fc40-fun-at-the-races.html

17 September 2014 Some more distractions. 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...

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

Basic Android App using Google Maps and Current Locationhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/google/androidos/basic-android-app-using-google-maps-and-current-location.html

10 October 2014 Applies to: Android Studio (Beta) 0.8.6 Google Android Maps API What? I am writing an app for a tablet running Android and wanted to include a Google Map. The following exercise focuses solely on creating an app which opens Google Maps at your current...

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

Restoring your WYSIWYG editor after upgrading Joomlahttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/restoring-your-wysiwyg-editor-after-upgrading-joomla.html

15 September 2009 The Issue Basically that after upgrading Joomla, my TinyMCE WYSIWYG (What-you-see-is-what-you-get) editor halved its number of buttons and I couldn't add code snippets... The Fix Just installed JoomlaFCK WYSIWYG Editor, an editor I use with my day...

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

MessageBox or AlertDialog in Android Javahttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/google/androidos/messagebox-or-alertdialog-in-android-java.html

20 October 2014 What? A quick article on how to display a OK/Cancel popup which I use as a message to the user for debug purposes. Why? It's similar to javascript's message box or confirm box, only Android let's you redesign the dialog. For my purposes I have used an...

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

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

24 October 2014 really easily. It works by reading the weather data from api.openweathermap.org and the flight restriction details from api.joellipman.com (my own personal website). This allows me to continually add data to the api of my own website without needing to...

• 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 What? A quick article on how to remove the first two entries from a RSS feed produced by a bunch of java files collectively known as "SimpleRssReader. Why? The original file reads of a feed from PCWorld.com. I adapted this to read a google news rss feed...

• 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 Applies To: Microsoft Windows 7 Pro Android Studio v0.8.6 beta Java Development Kit v1.8.0_20 What? The article below serves as a checklist to ensure I don't release an app that only displays maps to myself (again). Why? This took me a while to figure...

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

Android: Replace return key with done, go, send...https://www.joellipman.com/articles/google/androidos/android-replace-return-key-with-done-go-send.html

03 November 2014 What? A quick article on how to replace the return key on a soft keyboard (software based) on a touch-device. Why? I have an editText where a user can enter any text value but if they typed a return character, the app would crash because it didn't...

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

Android: Function to let user take photo or choose existinghttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/google/androidos/android-function-to-let-user-take-photo-or-choose-existing.html

04 November 2014 What? A quick article on a function to allow the user to take a photo using their built-in camera or to choose an existing photo from their gallery. Why? I wanted both options to be available to the user and for it to replace a displayed image in an...

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

Excel: convert degrees minutes seconds to decimalhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/excel/excel-convert-degrees-minutes-seconds-to-decimal.html

06 November 2014 What? A quick article on how to get the value of 40°4′20″N 116°35′51″E into 40.079857, 116.603112. How? Let's pretend all the names are in column A, in Column B I have the coordinates that I want to convert: A B -------------------------------------...

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

Android OS: Add GoogleMap as fragmenthttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/google/androidos/android-os-add-googlemap-as-fragment.html

25 November 2014 example (display map, move camera and display marker) and can be run from any other activity: MapFragment.java package com.joellipman.mymapapp; // change to your own package import android.os.Bundle; import android.support.v4.app.Fragment; import...

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

Submit form as a server and not the client with cURLhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/automation/api-misc/submit-form-as-a-server-and-not-the-client-with-curl.html

20 February 2015 What? A quick article on how to create a middleware script which accepts the values from a submitted HTML form and sends it to a server on another domain for processing. This applies to Linux Apache MySQL and PHP (LAMP) setups. Why? A customer wanted to...

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

Converting SQL date in PHP to European date format and vice-versahttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/php/converting-sql-date-in-php-to-european-date-format-and-vice-versa.html

17 September 2009 The Issue If you've ever made PHP scripts to process data within a LAMP environment (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) then this happens a lot. In the following example, our HTML form will allow the user to specify a date (so excludes hours, minutes and...

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

How to make a HTML form post its variables to itselfhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/html/how-to-make-a-html-form-post-its-variables-to-itself.html

17 September 2009 The Issue You have a PHP page which generates a HTML form. When the user submits the form, you want the same PHP page to process the data. Solution I've seen a lot of people write CGI requests but if you left the action attribute blank, this would do...

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

Copy a Wordpress Site for Developmenthttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/wordpress/copy-a-wordpress-site-for-development.html

08 March 2015 Applies to: Wordpress CMS v4.1.1 What? A note to myself on how to create a development/test version of a production/live Wordpress CMS site. Why? I have a website sitting at a domain (eg. www.myexample.com), and I want to create an exact copy at a...

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

Joes Search Module (JSM)https://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/joes-search-module-jsm.html?catid=40

09 March 2015 no changes to the existing component. Download You can download this module I made from my download section at http://www.joellipman.com/features/downloads/product/20.html or search my site for "Joes Search Module" (or "JSM"). Other Areas: One of the...

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

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

13 March 2015 What? A quick article for Joomla CMS version 3.x on resolving a menu item alias conflict: Warning Save failed with the following error. Another menu item has the same alias in Root. Root is the top level parent You will need: Access to the Joomla...

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

Convert XML UTF-16 to JSON UTF-8 with PHP cURLhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/php/convert-xml-utf-16-to-json-utf-8-with-php-curl.html

28 March 2015 to cause 500 Internal Server Error header('Content-Type: text/javascript'); header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin: http://api.joellipman.com/'); header('Access-Control-Max-Age: 3628800'); header('Access-Control-Allow-Methods: GET, POST, PUT, DELETE'); //...

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

Joes Google Map for Joomla (JGM)https://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/joes-google-map-for-joomla-jgm.html?catid=40

13 April 2015 What? This article serves as documentation for a module extension I made for the Joomla Content Management System versions 2.5 or later. Why? Could have probably used someone else's. I think there's loads out there but thought making my own to do...

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