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 What? This is a quick note on one reason you may get the above error in a Joomla CMS environment. Call to a member function mark() on a non-object in /public_html/index.php How? Not really a solution here because this is indicating that the system can't...

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

ReCaptcha disappears from Joomla 2.5 Registrationhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/recaptcha-disappears-from-joomla-2-5-registration.html

24 November 2013 What? This is an extract from a forum which solved our problem for why the ReCaptcha part disappears from the user registration form. We have Joomla 2.5.16 installed and no new updates for a plugin that comes with Joomla 2.5 install. How? Source:...

• 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: *

Joes Password Analyzer (JPA)https://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/joes-password-analyzer-jpa.html?catid=40

03 January 2014 What is Joe's Password Analyzer? Joe's Password Analyzer is an online tool that quickly checks any password you might want to try using and suggests variations on this. Simply type a word or phrase in the input field and let it do the rest. Background...

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

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 Joomla CMS v2.5.14 What? This article is a note on how I fixed an issue on a client site. The website had a redirect on the login which would go to a page accessible by "registered" users but only "Super Users" could actually login. "Registered"...

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

Export Joomla Users scripthttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/export-joomla-users-script.html

28 February 2014 What? Somebody said I could pay to get an export list of my Joomla users. I said Joomla is a FREE OpenSource system, why? Why? I want to move a client's list of Joomla users to a new system which allows the passwords to be in MD5. All I want is a quick...

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

JComments 2.3.0 with ReCaptcha in Joomla 2.5.xhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/jcomments-2-3-0-with-recaptcha-in-joomla-2-5-x.html

20 March 2014 to: Joomla CMS v2.5.11 (Joomla.org) jComments v2.3.0 (JoomlaTune.com) What? Posting this as it was rather rewarding to achieve and I hope will be of some use to others in the same boat. This article details how to replace jComments built-in kCaptcha...

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

T-SQL: Parse an XML valuehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/t-sql-parse-an-xml-value.html

27 March 2014 What? This took me a while to find so I've posted an article below detailing how to parse or extract values from a string containing XML code. Why? I'm working with a system which stores XML strings in a database and rather than a separate file, it...

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

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

03 April 2014 What? There are a lot of articles & posts out there that cover the same topic, but as this took me the good part of an hour just 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...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Web-Development
• 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 What? This is an article to demonstrate a quick step-by-step on having an SSIS package loop through a directory/folder of files in order to populate a database table. We could add each file as a separate connection manager but this is inefficient and...

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

AHK Countdown Tooltiphttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/automation/autohotkey/ahk-countdown-tooltip.html

17 July 2014 to: Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise AutoHotkey (see code for AHK version) What? Someone suggested an app that counts the days I have left serving my notice. I thought I'd go one better and have it calculate to the nearest second. I call this latest app...

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

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 to: MySQL Database v5.0.45 MySQL Workbench v6.0.8.11354 build 833 What? This is a quick article on how to get around the problem of backing up your MySQL database when attempting to "Data Export" using MySQL Workbench. This is not regarding the...

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

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 to: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Microsoft SQL Server 2012 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...

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

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 but notice some jello instances so will spend time balancing the props: I posted this for a friend on facebook to explain what a gimbal was for: {youtube}B_24vcZ7nTA{/youtube} Oh and a really helpful video if you don't have GPS and IOC (and just for...

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

MessageBox or AlertDialog in Android Javahttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/google/androidos/messagebox-or-alertdialog-in-android-java.html

20 October 2014 What? A quick article on how to display a OK/Cancel popup which I use as a message to the user for debug purposes. Why? It's similar to javascript's message box or confirm box, only Android let's you redesign the dialog. For my purposes I have used an...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: AndroidOS
• 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 To: Microsoft Windows 7 Pro Android Studio 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...

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

Android: Replace return key with done, go, send...https://www.joellipman.com/articles/google/androidos/android-replace-return-key-with-done-go-send.html

03 November 2014 What? A quick article on how to replace the return key on a soft keyboard (software based) on a touch-device. Why? I have an editText where a user can enter any text value but if they typed a return character, the app would crash because it didn't...

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

Excel: convert degrees minutes seconds to decimalhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/excel/excel-convert-degrees-minutes-seconds-to-decimal.html

06 November 2014 What? A quick article on how to get the value of 40°4′20″N 116°35′51″E into 40.079857, 116.603112. How? Let's pretend all the names are in column A, in Column B I have the coordinates that I want to convert: A B -------------------------------------...

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

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

25 November 2014 to: Android Studio (Beta) 0.8.9 Android Google Maps v2 What? A sequel to my article "Basic Android App using Google Maps and Current Location", this article suggests how to add Map as a sub activity. Note that this article is based on a new blank...

• 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 What? A quick article on how to create a middleware script which accepts the values from a submitted HTML form and sends it to a server on another domain for processing. This applies to Linux Apache MySQL and PHP (LAMP) setups. Why? A customer wanted to...

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