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 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 and...

• 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 still being reviewed prior to being added to the database but each country's aviation authority has been added. Earthquake Feed for the past day: earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/feed/geojsonp/2.5/day Flight Regulations API v0.9 version 0.9: Last...

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

Live WebCam feed of Bournemouthhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/live-webcam-feed-of-bournemouth.html

30 January 2013 So having moved desk from one side of the room to another, I have lost my view of the sea. Oh well, this is where technology has come to the rescue and returned my calming view... Note: I think this is running in British Summer Time (BST) rather than...

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

Migrate Joomla! 1.5.x to 2.5.x+https://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/migrating-from-joomla-15-to-16.html

30 January 2011 with this script, the version below migrates the following: Articles Banners Categories & Sections Menus * NEW Messages Newsfeeds Users * UPDATED Weblinks So this is fun. We've waited and waited and Joomla 1.6 is now stable... Exciting because this is...

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

Display Feeds to major Social Networkshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/display-feeds-to-major-social-networks.html

16 May 2016 A quick article on how I displayed feeds from the company's social network pages in one page. Why? There are 3rd-party apps that let you do this, some paid, some not. This was for a staff portal so I wanted this at no extra cost. This is read-only so...

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

SSIS Skip Blank Rows in Flat File Sourcehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssis/ssis-skip-blank-rows-in-flat-file-source.html

23 April 2013 sites was happening to me when I had blank rows in a flat file, where it appeared to add the special carriage return or line feed characters to the next viable row, see my original data file here (sample data): And this is what a Data Viewer returned...

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

Convert to Proper Case in T-SQLhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/convert-to-proper-case-in-t-sql.html

04 June 2014 So this is an article exploring how to convert UPPERCASE text into mixed case. The feed is originally for a personnel feed so it won't be converting long paragraphs of English text. Instead it will be applied to names and addresses as well as job titles...

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

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 0xA0 0x3C 0x2F 0x73 in /home/public_html/my_folder/my_xml_processing_script.php on line 160 Why? I'm downloading an XML feed to our servers, and then loading the downloaded file into memory with simplexml_load_string(). I get the above error when it is...

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

Trim in T-SQL and SSIShttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssis/trim-in-t-sql-and-ssis.html

14 May 2013 Some methods of removing trailing spaces, tabs, carriage returns and line feeds (new lines). How? First in Transact-SQL: SELECT RTRIM( REPLACE( REPLACE( REPLACE( @myString, CHAR(9), ''), CHAR(10), ''), CHAR(13), '') ) -- CHAR(9) = Tab -- CHAR(10) = Line...

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

Basic Webpage Controls with JavaScript / COMhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/automation/autohotkey/basic-webpage-controls-with-javascript-com.html

05 July 2011 focus(), click() Before we begin, this tutorial will be using examples that start with javascript: - which you will feed through the URL Address bar. These examples will be based on (and can be used with) the Search Forum webPage. Our first example will...

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

Things to Check if Joomla Password Reminder email not being senthttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/things-to-check-if-joomla-password-reminder-email-not-being-sent.html

09 May 2013 match (case-sensitive!!!): Login to your Joomla Admin Panel Navigate to Global Configuration > Site > Site Settings > Feed Email = Site Email (check this is “Site Email”) Then go under Global Configuration > Server > Mail Settings > From email (has to...

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

Include a carriage return in a column headinghttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/sql-server/include-a-carriage-return-in-a-column-heading.html

07 July 2014 25-Jul-2014... How? To do this in a select query resultset, you insert the special character references "CHAR(10)" [line feed] and "CHAR(13)" [carriage return] but to do this in the name of the column heading, the answer is a much simpler one, in your...

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

Zoho Deluge - Modify the product line items in an invoice modulehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-modify-the-product-line-items-in-an-invoice-module.html

22 August 2019 a product in an invoice. Why? A client wanted one of their products to be swapped out with another as they had a 3rd-party feed that kept creating a product that they didn't stock. How? So editing the product_details field of an invoice record seems...

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

Zoho CRM/Deluge: Get TimeZone Based on GeoCoded Address (Lat/Lng)https://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-deluge-get-timezone-based-on-geocoded-address-lat-lng.html

15 December 2021 a quick snippet of code which builds up the address from a Lead record to geocode into latitude and longitude coordinates to feed a third-party API which returns a timezone. Why? Our use-case is that we have a field called "Customer's Time Zone" on the...

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

Zoho Books: System Values Mapshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-books-system-values-maps.html

07 November 2023 of system values held in a ZohoBooks instance. Why? Rather than hard-coding and having a ton of if..then statements, I can feed these maps a textual value and it returns the ID to use. Some of these can be found elsewhere in my site but I'm putting all...

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

Zoho Analytics & Zoho People: Monitor DataSource Sync https://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-analytics-zoho-people-monitor-datasource-sync.html

02 July 2024 a client implement Zoho People as their new HR solution. Zoho Analytics is used to generate specific spreadsheets for a feed into their third-party payroll system. If the data is incorrect in Zoho Analytics, and payroll gets run with these...

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

Zoho CRM: Remove Duplicate Product Recordshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-remove-duplicate-product-records.html

07 March 2025 ZohoCRM. Why? Product duplicates are a common issue during development, especially when we have products imported via a feed or API or simply by staff and their spreadsheets. There is a deduplication feature for leads and contacts but not for products....

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

Joes WebGL Experimenthttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/joes-webgl-experiment.html?catid=40

06 April 2013 Is not working on iOS and certain smartphones Advantages No copyright, watermarks and as configurable as revolvermaps Can feed any list of latitude/longitude. Working on... Image Switch and color settings (done) Visitor log parsing programs for offline...

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

Make bootstrap carousel responsive to swipehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/bootstrap/make-bootstrap-carousel-responsive-to-swipe.html

14 December 2016 A quick reminder on how to make the carousel in bootstrap compatible with touch devices like smartphones and tablets. Why? Feed back was that the user was unimpressed with the image slideshow. You have to tap on the left and right symbols... How? Some...

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