TravelPort Universal API - Ping Request with PHP-cURLhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/automation/api-misc/travelport-universal-api-ping-request-with-php-curl.html

27 April 2015 requests as the server (as opposed to the client device). Why? Yes there's documentation online that TravelPort provide you with but it didn't help. The error I'm going to address has to do with getting the latest schemas but as I couldn't find anything...

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

URL Alias uniqueness with PHP & MySQLhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/php/url-alias-uniqueness-with-php-mysql.html

06 May 2019 anyway. Additional Note(s): The trigger only runs if inserting a record. If your script is trying to modify/update a record with a value that already exists in the table, you will get an error in which case you could probably add another trigger like...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Personal Home Page
• Language: en-GB

SharePoint 2007: Change profile picture with minimal permissionshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/sharepoint/sharepoint-2007-change-profile-picture-with-minimal-permissions.html

07 November 2013 This is a quick article on how to change your profile picture in your company's sharepoint site. Sounds straightforward but without being allowed to upload images or edit other profiles, each user has to do this with the permissions they've been given....

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

MS Excel - Open CSV with Long Numbershttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/excel/ms-excel-open-csv-with-long-numbers.html

23 July 2019 This is a quick reminder for myself on opening a CSV in MS Excel but without converting long numbers into exponential notations (which are incorrectly rounded anyway). My Data: Account ID,Name,Phone,Record ID...

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

Connection Strings for SQL Serverhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/sql-server/connection-strings-for-sql-server.html

05 January 2011 is ignored if Unix socket is used. Multiple servers Use this to connect to a server in a replicated server configuration without concern on which server to use. Server=serverAddress1 & serverAddress2 &...

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

Merge the content of two similar tables in MySQLhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/merge-the-content-of-two-similar-tables-in-mysql.html

11 January 2011 standard SQL we can combine the contents of two tables with a CROSS JOIN, (BTW these are not instructions to create some table I'll never use again unlike the rest of the solutions I found on the web). In MySQL, I only know how to do this with a UNION...

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

SQL Calendar in Business Intelligence Development Studiohttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/sql-calendar-in-business-intelligence-development-studio.html

14 January 2011 I find myself searching the web for a way of producing an outlook-style calendar within Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS). Weekdays along the top and then dates inside. Additionally we would like this linked to events in a database. I'm...

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

Room Availability Calendar in Business Intelligence Development Studiohttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/room-availability-calendar-in-business-intelligence-development-studio.html

23 March 2011 hours in the top columns, and undefined number of rooms in the rows. No all I was looking for was a calendar showing 1 day with the hours on the top. Working hours only as well... Ok I admit I only googled for about 1 hour before I gave up and just...

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

Prefix Line Numbers in a Text Filehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/automation/ms-dos/prefix-line-numbers-to-a-text-file.html

18 July 2012 Prefixing lines with their respective line number in a text file using a Microsoft Windows Operating System... I've just googled this as I couldn't remember how I did this last time and a number of people showing off their MS-DOS batch skills have...

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

Slideshow div layer through a windowhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/mootools/slideshow-div-layer-through-a-window.html

11 September 2012 Will post a final solution but here are the basics What? This article is a quick note to myself on the idea of a slideshow with the MooTools javascript framework. Basically, I want to create a div layer that I can see through (like a window with no...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: MooTools Framework
• Language: *

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

25 February 2013 to: - Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise - User with Local Administrator Privileges (required for setup) Why? Our work has group policies and two of our programs, Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate (VS2010) and Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS),...

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

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

15 November 2013 and you: Once I have the domain names, I will configure my server to receive requests for those domains (along with webspace and emails). Please wait up to 3 hours for these changes to cascade across my servers (average wait is 1 hour). JoelLipman.Com...

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

Generate a Timesheet in MySQL https://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/generate-a-timesheet-in-mysql.html

05 December 2013 which reads the duration of events from a database and auto-completes your timesheet. Why? I'm being tasked to work with EPM (Microsoft Enterprise Project Management) more and more. Similar systems have popped out that support some form of time...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: MySQL
• 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 do the same. My beloved DJI Phantom and the Hubsan X4 H107C This model is the DJI Phantom FC40 so the first Phantom (v1.2?) with DJI's own FC40 camera It had had a bad crash previously and loosening some of the screws snapped the edges back into place....

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

Joes Quicklist Weblinks (JQW) Downloadshttps://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/joes-quicklist-weblinks-jqw-downloads.html?catid=92

07 September 2015 Wed, 4th Jun 2014 3.0.1 ThomasM- Fixed Bug: Strict Standards Issue: New Operator removed for PHP5+. - Fixed Bug: Object without reference: Child object design converted to Object array. - Date Uploaded: Thu, 31st Oct 2013 3.0- Fixed Bug: Version...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Downloads
• 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 any changes you may need to make. 1. First: the variables are in arrays Well mostly. Simply because we'll be working with JSON data and this encodes/decodes easily into PHP arrays. I can also output any of the variables and responses for debugging...

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

Zoho Creator: Receive JSON via a Shopify Webhookhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-creator-receive-json-via-a-shopify-webhook.html

15 July 2021 I'm going to call mine Shopify Webhook Payloads Drag some fields onto the form, this is what I did: Event Type [Drop Down: with options "Order Update", "Inventory Update", "Product Update"] JSON Payload [Multi Line] 2. Joel's first Cheat: If your client...

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

ZohoCRM: Import Attachmentshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zohocrm-import-attachments.html

16 January 2023 imports, you could use the same filenames, I didn't try this, instead my program generates a unique MD5 for each file with the filename appended. Because of MS Windows 11 limitations (any MS OS really), you need to ensure that long hyphens (#151) and...

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

Using K2 with jezReCaptcha plugin causing errorshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/using-k2-with-jezrecaptcha-plugin-causing-errors.html

25 September 2009 I don't see this supported anymore so I wouldn't recommend using the JezRecaptcha plugin. In fact I'm not impressed with Recaptcha as it's sound alternative doesn't work and the text form is hackable. I will be changing this over throughout the site......

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

Room with a view E.M. Forsterhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/_other-misc/room-with-a-view-em-forster.html

04 February 2011 stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine."... "...she reflected that it is impossible to foretell the future with any degree of accuracy, that it is impossible to rehearse life. A fault in the scenery, a face in the audience, an irruption...

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