Developer's Checklist: Taking over a projecthttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/developers-checklist-taking-over-a-project.html

01 March 2011 So I'm starting to get the impression that I no longer tender for brand new projects competing with time and cost in order to win the bids. Recently, more and more people have been asking if I can take over a project that has been abandoned by its...

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

Migrate Joomla Users to WordPresshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/wordpress/migrate-joomla-users-to-wordpress.html

03 October 2011 is for Joomla 1.5.x sites! Note that this article is for Joomla 1.5.x sites to be converted to Wordpress 3.2.x sites. I started with a Joomla 1.5 as the move from Joomla 1.6 or greater is a lot easier since it uses nested categories like Wordpress....

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

Setup a copy of your Joomla websitehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/setup-a-copy-of-your-joomla-website.html

19 December 2012 paying for a hosting package which would allow them to have several copies of their website. Why? In my job, it is important that we have a development environment for the website/application developers, a quality assurance environment for our clients...

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

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 to make div layers the same height, and in this case, the same width. It isn't so much a miscalculation of 100% divided by 3 that leaves 1 pixel left over, more the fact that the scripts use that 1 pixel (ceiling rather than floor?). Why? We have a row...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Cascading Stylesheets
• Language: *

Administrator Program Shortcut without Prompthttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/windows-os/administrator-program-shortcut-without-prompt.html

25 February 2013 and Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS), require elevated or administator rights/privileges when run. This is so that these programs can write back and forth to our C drive. If we don't run them as local administrators on the workstation,...

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

Fix Oracle Tnsping 3511 without Windows Registryhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/pl-sql/fix-oracle-tnsping-3511-without-windows-registry.html

04 March 2013 products/services and these run off various instances of Oracle 9i, 10g, and 11g. This article was written for those that need to support these kind of systems and not as an invite for suggestions on how my business should be run. How? So there are a...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Oracle PL/SQL
• 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 posted before this with more information about the failure. Why? So the solution must be obvious to you by now. At least that's what Microsoft people think to themselves every time they see the error they programmed in. Apparently this problem also...

• 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 about a week prior to release date). JoelLipman.Com will make the source files available for download 24/7 so in the event that we lose contact with each other, the project manager has the option of going to another developer with the source files in...

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

SSRS: Performance Improvements: SELECT TOPhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-performance-improvements-select-top.html

07 March 2014 method we used on a search form in a SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) environment. The requirement (amongst others) was that the report ran in less than a few seconds. Analyzing the report through the ReportServer databases (internal auditing) only...

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

mysqldump: Got error: 2049: Connection using old (pre-4.1.1) authentication protocol refused (client option 'secure_auth' enabled) when trying to connecthttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/mysqldump-got-error-2049-connection-using-old-pre-4-1-1-authentication-protocol-refused-client-option-secure-auth-enabled-when-trying-to-connect.html

28 July 2014 the password of the connecting database user, but herein lies the problem. When you read my workaround, you'll say that I haven't solved anything; but this is a production database I want to export for offline backup. I have to raise and log a formal...

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

SSIS Multiple Lookups in onehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssis/ssis-multiple-lookups-in-one.html

05 August 2014 A quick article on an alternative to multiple lookups in SSIS. For any SSIS developer trying to create packages that need to decode a number of values into their full name/description (eg. "M" to "Male", "Prof" to "Professor"). Why? Our extract phase in...

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

Android: Keytool and Google Maps displaying greyhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/google/androidos/android-keytool-and-google-maps-displaying-grey.html

31 October 2014 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 out so hopefully this will help others. How? The...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: AndroidOS
• 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 database administrator who is comfortable with making changes to the database Why? We have a page describing the company that we would want entitled "about" or "about-us" but these were already created along the way and then deleted. The system is still...

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

Protecting your Joomla Administrator Sectionhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/protecting-your-joomla-administrator-section.html

23 October 2015 extensions and will remain in place even if you update your Joomla CMS. Why? When checking audit logs, I sometimes see that my administrator url is accessed more than my front-end. The below has worked for me on Joomla websites in general and prevents...

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

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 have a Mac or Linux system, you will know of a feature where you can have another virtual desktop on your device. For those that don't know it, the feature is similar to mobile phones where you swipe left/right to reveal another screen of app icons. The...

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

Zoho Deluge: Setup an API Connection for InvokeURLhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-setup-an-api-connection-for-invokeurl.html

12 August 2020 Token API v2 (Zoho to Zoho service) and different to my Zoho CRM: APIv2 using PHP & cURL (3rd-Party to Zoho), in that this details how to setup a connection to use in an invoke URL statement. Specifically for Zoho Books, Subscriptions or Inventory. Why?...

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

Zoho Creator Page: Toggle On/Off Switch: Hide/Display a Divhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-page-toggle-on-off-switch-hide-display-a-div.html

22 October 2020 So this is an article documenting how to create an on/off toggle switch that hides and displays between 2 div layers in a Zoho Creator Page (so not a form or report but a page). Why? This is written at a time when Javascript or interactive pages that...

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

Zoho Creator / Shopify: Get all Active Productshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-shopify-get-all-active-products.html

12 October 2021 used in Zoho Creator to retrieve the Product IDs of all the active products in a client's Shopify. Why? The use-case was that I wanted to search Shopify using a Product SKU. Community forums could only suggest looping through all the products. I then...

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

Zoho CRM: Schedule a Call using Delugehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-crm-schedule-a-call-with-deluge.html

18 November 2021 how to schedule a call with a reminder in Zoho CRM using Zoho Deluge. Why? Because I find a need to document anything that takes longer than 30 minutes to figure out so I don't spend so long the next time I have to do it. The use-case scenario here is...

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

Zoho Deluge: Regex Rounding and/or Removing Trailing Zeroshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-regex-rounding-and-or-removing-trailing-zeros.html

08 February 2022 as 10.00%. And they need the decimal because sometimes they might offer 12.5%. But when it displays in a template, it isn't that pretty to look at: Instead, could they have 10% to display instead of 10.00%, and display 12.5% instead of 12.50%. Well...

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