How To Make Chocolate Chip Cookieshttps://joellipman.com/articles/_other-misc/how-to-make-chocolate-chip-cookies.html

30 September 2009 - they'll spread out when they bake. Step 4: Bake Bake your cookies about 8-10 minutes, until they're golden brown, but still soft in the centers. Let them cool on the pan for a minute, and then move them to a cooling rack. This recipe makes about 4...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Hobbies
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Project Plan for Freelance Websitehttps://joellipman.com/articles/web-development/project-plan-for-freelance-website.html

25 February 2010 changes and support (response times) Critical - nothing works! Major - something important is broken Minor - less urgent but still broken Request - nice to have Support structure / maintenance rates agreed on (same as development - per hour)...

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• Category: Web-Development
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Running Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8 as standaloneshttps://joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/windows-os/running-internet-explorer-6-7-8-as-standalones.html

18 May 2010 for me. I recently changed job and no longer have all my test machines at work. Instead I only have the one workstation :eek Still I've been asked to test some web applications (???) so I had to find a solution to suit me. I'd done this before IE7 (so a...

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• Category: Windows OS
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Is it a scam? Gumtree.com's warning signshttps://joellipman.com/hardware/is-it-a-scam-gumtreecoms-warning-signs.html

12 October 2010 This list used to be on Gumtree's website but I can't find it anymore. This is quite a thorough list though it still needs some work. Requests to use money transfer services like Western Union or MoneyGram. These services are not meant for transactions...

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• Category: IT Support
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Connection Strings for SQL Serverhttps://joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/sql-server/connection-strings-for-sql-server.html

05 January 2011 to the server. Server=myServerAddress;Database=myDataBase;Uid=myUsername;Pwd=myPassword; CharSet=UTF8; Note that resultsets still are returned in the character set of the data returned. Specifying shared memory name Use this one to specify the shared...

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

14 January 2011 now right-click on the top of the [Order] column (grey square -like excel- to select the column). Select "delete columns". Still deleting: Make sure you select "delete columns and associated groups": Overview: So the following screenshot is how your...

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

SSRS Hide results table if emptyhttps://joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-hide-results-table-if-empty.html

29 March 2011 tablix has to be applied to both the textbox and tablix (as tablix doesn't show if resultset is empty by default anyway but still occupies a blank space which moves your textbox down...) Searches that got me nowhere ssrs display message if dataset rows...

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

What's the problem? Amusing computer issueshttps://joellipman.com/articles/web-development/whats-the-problem-amusing-computer-reports.html

28 April 2011 for you. I just need you to restart your computer now and tell me when that's done.". "I've done what you said but it's still not working". "From my logs, you haven't restarted this machine in a while.". "No I definitely log off every evening and then...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Web-Development
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Could not instantiate mail functionhttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/could-not-instantiate-mail-function.html

09 May 2011 > Mailer settings). Alternate between PHPmail and sendmail just to check this isn't the problem. If the problem is still there then check the below: Tried both PHPmail and sendmail So if this happens irrespective of whether I have PHP mail or sendmail...

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• Category: Joomla
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Joes Quicklist Weblinks (JQW)https://joellipman.com/component/content/article/joes-quicklist-weblinks-jqw.html?catid=40

03 July 2011 website thumbnail preview images for the weblinks that are currently displaying in the module. If your Joomla! website is still in development or you can afford to go a bit crazy, let the module display all your weblinks and then login to front-end as...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Product Documentation
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SSRS Querying on either of 2 Parametershttps://joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-querying-on-either-of-2-parameters.html

19 July 2011 = :StudentReference OR table2.studentUsername = :StudentADAccount ) Now searching on the ID parameter ("@StudentReference") still works but when I type a Username ("@StudentADAccount"), it populates only the first dataset with results; the remaining...

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

Importing Joomla articles to WordPress postshttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/wordpress/importing-joomla-articles-to-wordpress-posts.html

16 August 2011 '' post_mime_type, 0 comment_count FROM my_joomla_db.jos_content ORDER BY id Importing the joomla categories to Wordpress: (still to do: sections as parent categories?) SET @CountCategoriesAlreadyEntered:=(SELECT MAX(term_id) FROM...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Wordpress
• Language: en-GB

SSRS Parameters in Oracle Stored Procedurehttps://joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-parameters-in-oracle-stored-procedure.html

02 September 2011 Stored Procedure Success or ErrorLevel EXECUTE MY_PRETEND_STORED_PROCEDURE('value1','value2','value3',:errorcode,:errormsg) Still discussing this stage... Not proceeding with this as there may be a better way. In addition, SSRS was complaining about...

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

Joes Network Transmission Detector (JTD)https://joellipman.com/component/content/article/joes-network-transmission-detector-jtd.html?catid=40

29 September 2011 without causing network traffic (tried netstat. NTS: try this again with dll calling) Program used to open port (still need to distinguish between out/in) detect bytes instead of kilobytes GUI Move Icon Disallow program minimize Right-click on Systray...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Product Documentation
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T-SQL Record Separatorhttps://joellipman.com/articles/database/t-sql/t-sql-record-separator.html

11 October 2011 of this little trick for my managers, I explained it as displayed in the following image (apologies for the image but it's still clear as mud in my head): Oracle SQL*Plus Only for display/print but SQL*Plus has a nifty separator record activated...

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

SSRS Dropdown parameter cannot be blank!https://joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/ssrs/ssrs-dropdown-to-allow-blank-values.html

14 December 2011 Blank" and "Allow NULL". How? This is the tough part. I was reading up on the MSDN page for the closest solution but it still didn't work for me. But the idea of inserting a NULL entry to select sounded good. Aim / Objective The plan will be to replace...

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

No rows returned in Oracle causes SP to failhttps://joellipman.com/articles/database/pl-sql/no-rows-returned-in-oracle-causes-sp-to-fail.html

24 January 2012 the problem after all. The first query was erroring despite the stored procedure compiling successfully. An empty dataset is still an error it would seem. -- Error I was getting ORA-20001: 1234567:$:ORA-01403: no data found ORA-06512: at...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Oracle PL/SQL
• Language: en-GB

404: Page Not Foundhttps://joellipman.com/static-items/404.html

11 February 2015 and tidied up some of our URLs. Some sections will have been moved about but all the content that was on the old site is still to be found on our new website at www.joellipman.com. The Page you are looking for doesn't exist or an other error occurred....

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Setup a copy of your Joomla websitehttps://joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/setup-a-copy-of-your-joomla-website.html

19 December 2012 is for those who do not have development/test environments of their Joomla website. I have been doing this for years and still come across clients who have the one version of their website. They experiment on their customer-facing website and in most...

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

Set up Desktop SlideShow in Windows 7https://joellipman.com/articles/microsoft/windows-os/set-up-desktop-slideshow-in-windows-7.html

22 January 2013 their local workstation. As IT staff we have elevated privileges but not absolute rights to configuring our computer. And we still need to re-login for every change. About a zillion group policies control our every deviation from the standard staff...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Windows OS
• Language: en-GB