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  1. Three boxes, two roll over, one falls outhttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/css/three-boxes-two-roll-over-one-falls-out.html

    end up needing to specify a third of the width. Our template was 900 pixels in width. I tracked down some code that was simply calculating with 33% as the third of the page width. Changing this to 990 pixels in width fixed the problem. I'm guessing this...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Cascading Stylesheets
    • Language: *
  2. htaccess Rewrites SEF URL and submits to PHPhttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/php/htaccess-rewrites-sef-url-and-submits-to-php.html

    Anything not ending in ".html" will simply return a 404 error. I've included my error rules (they basically redirect to a branded error page). So I sanitize on the receiving index.php file: Check for possible Code Injection Do NOT allow the use of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Personal Home Page
    • Language: en-GB
  3. Convert XML UTF-16 to JSON UTF-8 with PHP cURLhttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/php/convert-xml-utf-16-to-json-utf-8-with-php-curl.html

    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:...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Personal Home Page
    • Language: en-GB
  4. Is it a scam? Gumtree.com's warning signshttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/is-it-a-scam-gumtreecoms-warning-signs.html?catid=116&Itemid=165

    Terriers and Chihuahuas. These ads are usually accompanied by staged pictures. The pets don't exist and the fraudsters are simply trying to get you to pay money upfront. Remember, be wary of overseas sellers. Source:...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: IT Support
    • Language: *
  5. Passwords: Did-you-knowhttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/passwords-did-you-know.html?catid=116&Itemid=165

    of nightmare stories by security companies but one of my favourites is when the company hired to hack the client’s network simply drops loads of free nice USB flash drives in the parking lot. Employees pick them up and plug them into their machines at...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: IT Support
    • Language: *
  6. Amazon Kindle: Send PDFs to your Kindlehttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/amazon-kindle-send-pdfs-to-your-kindle.html?catid=121&Itemid=165

    Also, the above steps are a one-time process and won’t need to be repeated each time. So, what you need to do now is simply send an email to the Kindle email ID with the PDF file attached to it. Also, you can send multiple PDF files at the same time, as...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Kindle
    • Language: *
  7. Hide Menu Item from Registered and Special https://joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/hide-menu-item-from-registered-and-special.html

    website's style. The following is from http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=252258&start=0 at this date/time. Can't simply hide an item but can hide a menu (of course the menu could have been created with just one item with no title and...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Joomla
    • Language: *
  8. Disable User Registration in Joomla 1.5 - Configuration Filehttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/disable-user-registration-in-joomla-1-5-configuration-file.html

    CMS version 1.5.x without using the Joomla! CMS back-end panel. Why? Because we're having some corruption issues and simply using the Joomla! administrator panel to navigate to global configuration, does not work! How? It isn't in the configuration.php...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Joomla
    • Language: en-GB
  9. Joomla Development: Possible XML Filtershttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/joomla-development-possible-xml-filters.html

    . (dot) - (dash) BASE64 Forces the value to be a base64 encoded the string. Note it does not encode the string, it simply strips characters that may not exist in a base 64 encoded string. STRING Removes HTML HTML Allows basic HTML ARRAY Forces value to...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Joomla
    • Language: en-GB
  10. Does Google Chrome Frame really improve performancehttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/does-google-chrome-frame-really-improve-performance.html?catid=61&Itemid=165

    proper tests on the weekend. Instructions to a hard-coder The Google Chrome Frame (or ChromiumBrowser) is quick to enable. Simply ask your webmaster to put the following meta tag in between the head tags of the page: For Joomla v1.5.x Administrators:...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Google
    • Language: en-GB
  11. SSIS: Add Reference Microsoft.SqlServer.TxScripthttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/ssis-add-reference-microsoft-sqlserver-txscript.html?catid=74&Itemid=165

    spend so long in googling what the TxScript referenced assembly is when creating an SSIS custom component. How? This is simply the "Script Component" under "Extensions". No MSDN website said this... obvious to Microsoft staff so why should their...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Integration Services
    • Language: en-GB
  12. SSRS Repeat Headers in PDF Reporthttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/ssrs-repeat-headers-in-pdf-report.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

    when I request the same report in PDF format, the tablix headers only appear once on the first page. Every subsequent page simply displays the report header (which does not include the tablix header... obviously). I right-clicked on the header row of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
    • Language: en-GB
  13. SSRS Change Background Color of Imagehttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/ssrs-change-background-color-of-image.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

    circles with the background being transparent. I want the first column to display an image based on the status result. If I simply insert an image, the report would use the background color of the report. How? The issue exists if your image has...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
    • Language: en-GB
  14. SSRS Display question mark when date is blankhttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/ssrs-display-question-mark-when-date-is-blank.html?catid=75&Itemid=165

    "#Error". You should get errors referring to converting strings to dates and incorrect data types. How? The fix is to simply get the field and both results to be of the same data type: =IIF(CStr(Fields!MyCompletionTime.Value)"",...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SQL Server Reporting Services
    • Language: en-GB
  15. UNC Paths in Sharepoint 2007 linkshttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/unc-paths-in-sharepoint-2007-links.html?catid=77&Itemid=165

    suggested I setup WebDAV to do this, I thought I'd write this article to warn others that that's unnecessary and can simply open another can of worms (security-wise). There may be situations when this is better but I'm just trying to add a link to our...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: SharePoint
    • Language: *
  16. List last modified files using FTP Command-linehttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/website-development/ftp/list-last-modified-files-using-ftp-command-line.html

    or print output, it will save to this folder on your computer). Can type lcd if you want to change this (leave blank to simply display what current local working directory is). Type dir -S . temp.txt which will output all files including subdirectories...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: File Transfer Protocol
    • Language: *
  17. MS Excel - Open CSV with Long Numbershttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/ms-excel-open-csv-with-long-numbers.html?catid=110&Itemid=165

    1.4571E+18 David 3.31235E+11 1.4571E+18 How? Firstly, save the CSV file as text file (*.TXT). This will stop MS Excel simply opening the CSV as if it knew what to do with it. It doesn't. Saving the data source as a text file means that Excel will prompt...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Excel
    • Language: en-GB
  18. Splatter Logohttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/splatter-logo.html?catid=115&Itemid=165

    web-developers need to be able to run several programs at the same time and simplicity is king. In PaintShop Pro you would simply: How? Insert text as floating, leave the selection on Create a new layer beneath Go to Selection > Modify > Expand > 10 px...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Joel Lipman
    • Category: Graphic Design
    • Language: *
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