Unix Date Format Specifiershttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/linux/unix-date-format-specifiers.html

05 July 2011 zero padded 01 %k hour (24 hour clock) 13 %H hour (24 hour clock) zero padded 13 %p locale's upper case AM or PM (blank in many locales) PM %P locale's lower case am or pm pm Minutes %M MM minutes 20 Seconds %s seconds since 00:00:00 1970-01-01 UTC...

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

SSRS Querying on either of 2 Parametershttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-querying-on-either-of-2-parameters.html

19 July 2011 not resetting to blank after the report was run. End-Users were putting different values in both fields and getting twice as many rows back. I modified the report leaving only one open parameter, the OR clause just compares against the same parameter....

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

The ReportServer Databasehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/the-reportserver-database.html

08 August 2011 the report (looks like a hexadecimal SSID). It's the unique ID of the report but not unique in the table (can be referenced many times). UserName nvarchar(260) NULL Windows authenticated username and domain of the person running the report (eg....

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

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

29 September 2011 isn't on a network (ie. not connected to the internet), this program is extremely boring and doesn't do anything. But unlike many other similar programs which add to the network traffic, this program adds NOTHING to the network traffic, and therefore is...

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

How to Display Report Execution Time in SSRS (milliseconds)https://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/how-to-display-report-execution-time-in-ssrs.html

17 November 2011 Workaround #1 Although I'm convinced of a solution considering the ReportServer database will be able to tell you how many milliseconds it took for a report to execute... I decided to do a database level calculation using two datasets: -- Oracle 10g:...

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

Basic Joomla 2.5 Mootools Formhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/basic-joomla-25-mootools-form.html

20 August 2012 me to get this code in working order and as easy as it may be to others, this has been quite a challenge. I have tried so many examples, testing different mootools libraries to see why the Joomla ones weren't working. It may not be right, it may not be...

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

Error 1065: Query was Emptyhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/error-1065-query-was-empty.html

13 December 2012 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....

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

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

26 January 2013 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 that our...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: IT Support
• Language: *

SSIS Skip Rows in Excel Source filehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssis/ssis-skip-rows-in-excel-source-file.html

04 April 2013 returned). Sheet1$B11:AL Selects all data from column B, row 11 up to Column AL, row unspecified - used if I don't know how many rows there will be and if I want them all. NOTE: If you don't use column headings, F1 is the first column of the data range...

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

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 the "conditional split" task and test one of the columns for a length of greater than 1: Almost! A problem not covered by many 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...

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

Split a row into multiple rows based on a column valuehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/split-a-row-into-multiple-rows-based-on-a-column-value.html

23 August 2013 have a table that has all the days of sickness of employees. This table contains, which employee, on what date, and for how many days they were off sick. When migrating to a new system, the destination wanted 1 row per day. This meant that if in the old...

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

SSIS Script: convert UPPERCASE to Mixed-Case using TitleCasehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssis/ssis-script-convert-uppercase-to-mixed-case-using-titlecase.html

04 October 2013 Script held in a separate solution which other packages import as a Custom Component Script. (ie. if we use this script in many packages, we can change just this script instead of the ones for every package). Here is the near enough final version of my...

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

Client Services: Website Development Agreementhttps://www.joellipman.com/static-items/client-services-website-development-agreement.html

15 November 2013 from). Additional I am a one-man band, a solopreneur, freelancer but I specialise in automation which lets me do the work of many more. I have associates who can step in when necessary but they will not necessarily match my skillset. My associates only...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Static Items
• Language: *

Call to a member function mark() on a non-object in Joomla CMShttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/call-to-a-member-function-mark-on-a-non-object.html

17 November 2013 file. Comment that out and you will get errors regarding other elements of the CMS. This error could have been caused by many things but in the case of one of my clients, the error was due to an update process gone wrong. Not really the fault of Akeeba,...

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

Transferring Apps (purchases) from iPhone 4s to 5s on a Windows PChttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/apple/ios/transferring-apps-purchases-from-iphone-4s-to-5s-on-a-windows-pc.html

03 November 2013 to: Apple iOS 7 Apple iTunes 11.1.3.8 Microsoft Windows 7 Professional What? Just so many articles out there that did not help me. This article is how I finally did mine. Why? I had paid for some apps on my old phone and realized that if I didn't do a...

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

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 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 a First-Person-Shooter game where I strafe right moving forwards in an arc to go round corners. Then I learnt there were so many different angles and routes I could have taken (NTS: Take picture of whole track beforehand and plan a route). Strong Winds:...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Quadcopters
• 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 How? The gist is that I was using the Test SHA1 when adding allowed Android Keys to the Google APIs console (there's so many) when I should be using the App SHA1 (I have now added both to the console). [Optional] To use the keytool: If you know the...

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

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 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 not an...

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

Google Drive API v3 - OAuth2 using Service Account in PHP/JWThttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/google/google-drive-oauth-using-service-account-in-php.html

02 February 2019 example, we are going to store the token value so it is reused until it is about to expire. Firstly, we need to check how many minutes are remaining since the access token file was last modified: // check minutes remaining...

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