Is it a scam? Gumtree.com's warning signshttps://www.joellipman.com/hardware/is-it-a-scam-gumtreecoms-warning-signs.html

12 October 2010 provide personal information. These are fake and are known as ‘spoof’ or ‘phishing’ emails. Any emails which combine urgency with a need for personal details should be treated with caution, no matter whom they appear to be from. Website pages can be...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: IT Support
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Before and After, Highs and Lowshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/before-and-after-highs-and-lows.html

03 August 2011 I'm looking for a SQL query that could do this all in one go and return all the results in one table. With PHP & MySQL it's pretty simple: use individual SQL queries to get the count of yesterday, yesterweek, yestermonth, yesteryear and do the layout in...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
• Language: *

SSRS External Images don't displayhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-external-images-dont-display.html

19 September 2011 just getting external images to display when they are provided over an authenticated URL (You shouldn't be having any issues with this if the image is available to anonymous users - eg. Google Logo). Our Setup Windows XP Workstation Business...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
• Language: *

Joes Network Transmission Detector (JTD)https://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/joes-network-transmission-detector-jtd.html?catid=40

29 September 2011 writing back and forth to network shares, user profiles, browsing data, etc. What does it look like? It's kinda transparent with it's text as white and sits behind other windows much like a gadget or widget. If you know your AutoHotkey, the download...

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

SSRS Retrieving Oracle Stored Procedure Success or ErrorLevelhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-retrieving-oracle-stored-procedure-success-or-errorlevel.html

04 November 2011 need the report to run the stored procedure, then based on the errorlevel, return a message. How? We use a database account with read-only privileges to list all the details. On the last report, the one to execute the stored procedure, we use an account...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
• Language: en-GB

Performance Report - Background colors based on dataset valueshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/green-red-background-colors-based-on-dataset-values.html

02 December 2011 which will compare up to 4 reports and will compare the time taken for each one. The breakdown or what I was able to measure with the default installation are the times taken for "data retrieval", "processing", "rendering", and then the totals of these....

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
• Language: en-GB

Print Directory Contents to a Filehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/windows-os/print-directory-contents-to-a-file.html

19 July 2012 asked me if there was a quick way to simply right-click on a folder in Windows Explorer and it would generate a text file with the contents of the directory he right-clicked. What? We can do this by adding an entry to the context menu (when you...

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

Improve Default Joomla Search https://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/improve-default-joomla-search-heuristics.html

07 May 2013 never seen in any other system. I've googled and binged but could not find anything that documents how to bring it into line with other search systems. So here we go, hope this helps you. Why? I've created search systems for a plethora of other systems....

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

T-SQL concatenate an incremental row numberhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/t-sql-concatenate-an-incremental-row-number.html

24 May 2013 001 00101 001 00102 002 00201 -- Qualification Ref is a unique number using the -- Employee Number concatenated with a 2 digit sequence -- number (padded with zeros) How? So how do we do it? In the above example, Joel Lipman has two qualification...

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

Registered Users Cannot Login - Super Users Canhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/registered-users-cannot-login-super-users-can.html

26 February 2014 to Site > Global Configuration > Server > Database Settings : Database Tables Prefix It should be a short alphanumeric value with a trailing underscore (eg. "abc12_") Check if you have more than one asset with a parent_id equal to zero: SELECT COUNT(*)...

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

ReCaptcha alternative: Integrate PlayThru in JComments 2.3 for Joomla 2.5https://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/recaptcha-alternative-integrate-playthru-in-jcomments-for-joomla.html

24 March 2014 v2.3.0 (JoomlaTune.com) PlayThru v1.1.8 (AreYouAHuman.com) What? This article is a follow-up of my article JComments 2.3.0 with Google ReCaptcha (Joomla 2.5.x) but instead of using ReCaptcha, we're going to use an alternative called PlayThru by...

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

ReCaptcha alternative: Integrate PlayThru in JComments 3.0 for Joomla 3.2https://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/recaptcha-alternative-integrate-playthru-in-jcomments-3-0-for-joomla-3-2.html

27 April 2014 v3.0.0 (JoomlaTune.com) PlayThru v1.1.8 (AreYouAHuman.com) What? This article is a follow on from my article JComments 2.3 with PlayThru (Joomla 2.5.x) but this is for a later version of the components using the alternative called PlayThru by...

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

SSIS: How to loop through multiple flat files as data sourceshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssis/ssis-how-to-loop-through-multiple-flat-files-as-data-sources.html

13 June 2014 Why? I am creating an extract SSIS package intended to take a text file as its source and to populate a database table with this data. Note that this only works if all the text files to be used as source data have the same number of columns and where...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: SQL Server Integration Services
• Language: en-GB

XML Schema Referencehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/xml/xml-schema-reference.html

13 August 2014 0 or 1 time annotation Specifies the top-level element for schema comments any Enables the author to extend the XML document with elements not specified by the schema anyAttribute Enables the author to extend the XML document with attributes not...

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

T-SQL functions to convert Strings to Tableshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/t-sql-functions-to-convert-strings-to-tables.html

20 August 2014 What? These were in a solution and I thought I'd note them on my site so I can refer to them more easily. How? Let's start with a function that just converts a string of words delimited by spaces to a table: CREATE FUNCTION dbo.[ufn_StringToTable] (...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Transact-SQL
• 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: *

PHP Issue: simplexml_load_string parser error : Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding !https://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/php/php-issue-simplexml-load-string-parser-error-input-is-not-proper-utf-8-indicate-encoding.html

02 August 2016 to address the issue of importing characters from an XML in a different language character set and trying to load it in PHP with the function simplexml_load_string(). The error I get is something similar to: PHP Warning: simplexml_load_string(): Entity:...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Personal Home Page
• Language: *

AutoHotkey - MS Windows 10 - Open Apps on Multiple Monitors and Desktopshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/automation/autohotkey/autohotkey-ms-windows-10-open-apps-on-multiple-monitors-and-desktops.html

18 July 2019 mobile phones where you swipe left/right to reveal another screen of app icons. The same can be done to the desktop versions with open applications instead of just their icons. Why? MS Windows 10 has made a major step but when you close down your PC and...

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

Autohotkey - Chrome Profiles in Alphabetical Orderhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/automation/autohotkey/autohotkey-chrome-profiles-in-alphabetical-order.html

07 January 2020 not. So I made a program that lists the profiles in alphabetical order and can be double-clicked to open the Chrome browser with that profile. How? So you will need to be able to run AutoHotkey or create executables from an AHK file. Here is the code...

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

AutoHotkey: App GUI Listview to Rename Fileshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/automation/autohotkey/autohotkey-app-gui-listview-to-rename-files.html

08 July 2020 3.wav My File 3 (3).wav How? So if you copy the following code into an AutoHotkey file and execute it, it will popup an app with 3 buttons: 1st to generate or populate a list of the files in the script directory, the 2nd to do the actual renaming. A...

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