PHP: First name and Initial of Surnamehttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/php/php-first-name-and-initial-of-surname.html

27 March 2014 A note for myself on some code to convert a string of two names into a string made up of the first name and then using the initial of the second name. -- What I have John Smith Fred.Bloggs -- What I want John S. Fred B. How? So different ways, the first...

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

SSRS Change Background Color of Imagehttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-change-background-color-of-image.html

08 April 2014 color instead: Right-click on the cell you want to put the image in. Insert > Rectangle Set the Rectangle Fill color (I'm using an expression based on the status) to output: Green (for Success), Red (for Fail), Orange (for Unknown). Right-click on the...

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

SITS: XET format for Export not availablehttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/xml/sits-xet-format-for-export-not-available.html

08 August 2014 record but I want to use the XET template I created rather than the pre-installed XML export formats. When I try to export using data format XET, the system has never heard of it. Why? To test the XET I created, I want to see what the resulting XML will...

• Type: Article
• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Extensible Markup Language
• Language: *

MySQL Updating a database table from another tablehttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/mysql-updating-a-database-table-from-another-table.html

22 October 2014 A quick article on how to populate a database column from another table using a string comparison. Why? I have several database tables which replicate country names and I would rather they all use the ccTLD two letter code. This article was written...

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

Android Background Image Resolutionshttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/google/androidos/android-background-image-resolutions.html

01 December 2014 A reference to what size an image background should be set to for various screen sizes. Why? A background image I was using was unedited at 1600x2133 (364kb) and was not displaying on smaller devices. Configuring drawables for each layout seemed to be...

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

Forgotten Super User Password in Joomla 2.5.x - 3.xhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/forgotten-super-user-password-in-joomla.html

06 February 2015 A quick article on how to set a password using the database tools for super users. Why? It happens to us all, especially me. I like to use different passwords for every site but this came up as a client had lost their super user password. How? This...

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

Angeles City - July 2015http://mail.joellipman.com/articles/_other-misc/quadcopters/angeles-city-july-2015.html

13 July 2015 Using a DJI Phantom FC40 to film a part of Angeles City, Pampanga, Philippines. {youtube}B9afOeBUqpg{/youtube}

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

Zoho Deluge - Get Current User IDhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-get-current-user-id.html

08 April 2019 v1 was already being deprecated (end of life at the end of this year). So I'm familiar with the methods in API v2 or just using newer functions. Method #1: API v1 userResp =...

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

Zoho Deluge - Store and repopulate a multi lookup list in Creatorhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/crm/zoho/zoho-deluge-store-and-repopulate-a-multi-lookup-list-in-creator.html

28 June 2019 in l_AllowedEntries { input.myLookup:ui.add(r_EntryID); } Additional Note(s): If removing elements, even if you are using Creator v5, use removeElement() and NOT remove() which got me stuck for a while. This is for error...datatype {0} is not the same...

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

JComments errors in PHP 7: plgContentJComments and JCommentsACLhttp://mail.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/jcomments-errors-in-php-7.html

13 March 2020 During a site upgrade, the commenting extension for Joomla called JComments would return errors when using PHP version 7. This is a quick article to document what needed doing to fix the errors. How? First some errors: ERROR: plgContentJComments...

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