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A very quick note in case I forget this one. If you are trying to join two tables and receiving the error "Conversion failed when converting the varchar value 'B110' to data type int" then read on. How?
A quick article on a frequent question I get asked. This refers to an issue within the Joomla CMS (version 2.5.x) where it fails to email users who reset their password. How? A few things to check:
So I can't stand the way the default "Search" component in Joomla works. The default is to sort the results by popularity (hits) or by most recently added (depending on your version) which I have never seen in any other system. I've googled and binged but could not find anything that documents how to bring it into line...
This is a quick article to remind me on how to skip blank rows when using a Flat file as a data source. I would receive another Microsoft error as clear as mud: Error: The conditional operation failed. Error: SSIS Error Code DTS_E_INDUCEDTRANSFORMFAILUREONERROR. The "component "MyDerivedColumns" (4228)" failed because...
This is a quick note to myself so that I never use parentheses in the column headings again. Basically I have a pivot table in Microsoft Excel 2010 with the projects down the left (in the first column) and the days of the week along the top.
A replacement for Joes Revolver Maps? So I recently came across the Chrome Experiments WebGL Globe which I think is beautiful; here's a screenshot of what I envisaged though: Demo It's still in development and a somewhat stable beta version is demo'd at http://demo.joellipman.com/joomla16/index.php/joes-infographic-for...
Before you ask, I tried Google Prettify and Alex Gorbatchev's Syntax Highlighter but both were causing problems for the sites I wanted to use it on. Mainly because of JavaScript frameworks (like jQuery and MooTools) conflicting with other scripts but do I really need a complex solution? So here I am making my own again...
This is a quick article on what I change the error page for Joomla websites to. I like a clean error page, for a demo visit http://www.joellipman.com/my_error_page. Applies to Joomla 1.6.x, 1.7.x, 2.5.x How? Backup the file \templates\system\error.php Create a replacement file called error.php including the below code...
A quick article on how to skip rows or even specify a range to extract from the Excel file when using as the DataSource.
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