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This is an article to remind me how to search a column in an Excel file for values found in another column (in this example, on another worksheet in the same workbook). How? So for demonstration purposes, I'm using a new Excel file with two worksheets called "Sheet1" and "Sheet2" respectively.
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This is an article with notes for me on how to convert some received XML encoded in UTF-16 to some JSON in UTF-8. If it were entirely in UTF-8, I would simply load the received XML with SimpleXML and use the built-in PHP JSON_encode function. I ran into the following errors: Warning: SimpleXMLElement::__construct() [si...
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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.
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A quick reminder on basic regular expressions. Match Any Character — Dot The dot operator '.' matches any single character in the current character set. For example, to find the sequence--'a', followed by any character, followed by 'c'--use the expression: a.c This expression matches all of the following sequences...
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I have googled, binged and asked but to no avail. Some self-proclaimed IT experts in forums said "why would you want to do that?". Unhelpful Bellends. It's a bit like asking me "Why can't I turn on my computer" and me replying "why would you want to do that?". Anyway, I was looking for something like the record separat...
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So 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 calling this project "Reinventing the Wheel" because the request w...
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Thought I'd add a note as I was getting confused with the built-in function "FormatDateTime()". The example is shown as: =FormatDateTime(Fields!BirthDate.Value, DateFormat.ShortDate) The other formats are: =FormatDateTime(Fields!BirthDate.Value, DateFormat.GeneralDate) =FormatDateTime(Fields!BirthDate.Value, DateFormat...
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Following up on my article on correcting disappearing headers, a further issue with our web-report is that even an export to Excel (Data Only) from Crystal Reports 9, created extra columns. This issue could not be replicated on the client machine (ie. from my workstation). I would have to upload the report to the serve...
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Keyboard and mouse shortcuts are combinations of keyboard strokes and mouse clicks that you can use to perform specific actions. Knowing some of the Google Chrome shortcuts listed below can help save you time.
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