Alternative method of displaying Unicode in Autohotkey GUIhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/automation/autohotkey/alternative-method-of-displaying-unicode-in-autohotkey-gui.html

29 September 2011 yes you could just use the Unicode version of Autohotkey. If you're looking for some up and down arrows which is all I wanted, then you don't have to use Unicode and you can use the Chr() function: msgbox % Chr(24) ; upwards arrow msgbox % Chr(25) ;...

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

T-SQL Record Separatorhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/t-sql-record-separator.html

11 October 2011 of hyphens (if you want lots of dashes/hyphens as separators) or replace with whatever character. I just put NULL because I wanted an empty row. My final query This displays all room bookings for today and the next 6 days. Note how I can't use normal...

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

SSRS Zero Paddinghttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-zero-padding.html

10 November 2011 Unfortunately Oracle also returns errors of less than 10000 so ORA-00201 would actually be returned as "-201". As I wanted a link so that the user can just click on this link and it would take them to http://ora-00201.ora-code.com/. The Padding Found...

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

Search a database with SOUNDEXhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/search-a-database-with-soundex.html

11 October 2012 this example, find typos as well, eg. "Daat ont Ety Aviable". How? Mine's a bit of a copout as it is a two-step process. I wanted a query that searched every column containing strings in the database and we are somewhat limited in Sql Server 2008 R2 by...

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

Country Lookup by IP address CSVhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/country-lookup-by-ip-address.html

17 March 2013 their respective IP ranges. ip_lookup.php: to use the database License.txt: Released under GNU/GPL ReadMe.txt What is it? I wanted my own IP lookup script to tell me the country that is allocated a given IP address, this is what I use. The scripts in...

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

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 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 system, there was 1 row with an employee who took 2 days off, we would want 2...

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

MS-DOS: Copy folders without overwriting fileshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/automation/ms-dos/ms-dos-copy-folders-without-overwriting-files.html

23 February 2014 and replace all files. What I need is something that synchronizes files on an internal hard drive to an external one. I wanted it to copy only the files that were new in the original folder and only copy those over (reason being, the archive is 4...

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

301 Redirect using htaccess filehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/301-redirect-using-htaccess-file.html

03 April 2014 to find out, I'm posting it here so I never have to look for it again. A client changed their website domain address and wanted any person visiting the old domain to be redirected to the new domain. Why? I warned that a 301 site gets removed from the...

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

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 of English text. Instead it will be applied to names and addresses as well as job titles and departments. Why? We wanted a T-SQL version despite having successfully built a custom script component for SSIS. How? You can search my site for how to do this...

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

SITS: Export field code and namehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/xml/sits-export-field-code-and-name.html

12 August 2014 SITS:Vision Students (v8.7.0) What? You might be able to work it out from the online manuals but it took me a while, we wanted to bring back both the code and the lookup value in our XML to our Staging environment. Why? Let's take the country of birth...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Extensible Markup Language
• 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 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 memory to do the same. My...

• 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 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 location....

• 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 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 ImageView. How? More as a reference for...

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

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

25 November 2014 sub-activity; returning to the map activity would restart the app as a menu item, it would need to launch a new intent... I wanted to change my previous example so that the homepage of the app (the starting page) will simply display a button to the map...

• 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 it to a server on another domain for processing. This applies to Linux Apache MySQL and PHP (LAMP) setups. Why? A customer wanted to connect their Mobile App to a third-party API. The third-party only accepts requests from a static and permitted IP...

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

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

09 March 2015 that are uploaded to a folder. The client also purchased OS PDF Indexer by OS Solutions and installed this. The client wanted restricted users to be able to search the PDF indexer but not to return any other Joomla articles from other categories. Public...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Product Documentation
• 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 the web were only partial and thought I'd write a full example here. No jQuery and using the Google Chrome browser. I wanted to: Sort the array by its values my_records.sort(); Iterate through and output these in HTML for(i=0;i y ? 1 : 0; }); // use...

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

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

16 May 2016 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 actual editing of the feed would be done on the respective social network's site....

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

Google Authentication - OAuth 2.0 using PHP/cURLhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/google/google-authentication-oauth-2-0-using-php-curl.html

31 October 2018 use the mentioned token based authentication. I find myself going through the motion and designing on a per-app basis so I wanted a standard way of doing it and I'll update this article as I improve on the code. How? So the plan is: Declare the...

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

Excel - Check a column for values found in another columnhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/excel/excel-check-a-column-for-values-found-in-another-column.html

14 February 2019 words to find from Sheet2 in this screenshot are from the cells B1:B4... This is because I already had values in A1:A4 and wanted to test against a set of different words.

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