Now Reading
Planned books:
None
Current books:
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Mathematics for the Digital Age and Programming in Python by Maria Litvin and Gary Litvin
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Statistics In Plain English by Timothy C. Urdan
Recent books:
- Practical Machine Learning in R by Fred Nwanganga, Mike Chapple
- Statistical Inference via Data Science: A ModernDive into R and the Tidyverse by Chester Ismay and Albert Y. Kim
- The Nature of Code by Daniel Shiffman
- Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting by Robert McKee
- The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature by Matt Ridley
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Author Archives: Robert S. Robbins
AJAX Portfolio
I have added a new AJAX portfolio section to my web site at: http://www.williamsportwebdeveloper.com/ajax.html. This makes public most of the JSON work I’ve been doing for the past month or so. You’ll find search forms for Flickr photos, eBay auctions, … Continue reading
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Lycoming County Web Site Switches To DotNetNuke
Tonight I am trying to write a blog post using Windows Live Writer which can be used with WordPress. I see that the Lycoming County web site has switched to DotNetNuke. That means they’ll be using ASP.NET instead of ASP … Continue reading
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The Entrepreneurial Developer
I’ve been reading many programmer blogs looking for hot tips and tricks. Several blog posts that seem to get the most reaction concern the different types of programmers. Some programmers are pragmatic and focus on solving business problems. They don’t … Continue reading
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AJAX And JSON Are Making JavaScript Very Popular
I’ve been doing a lot of work with JavaScript lately. JavaScript has become very popular due to the AJAX craze. Every Web 2.0 site has to do something impressive with AJAX so web developers are becoming more creative with JavaScript. … Continue reading
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My Blog Has Been Restored
Unfortunately, a snafu by my hosting company, http://www.freeservers.com/, downgraded my hosting account. I visited my web site last Friday evening and saw a lot of advertising on my site. I called my hosting company to have that removed but then … Continue reading
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Pownce, Technorati, YouTube Pocket PC, and C#
Here is a list of last week’s activities: I have finished my Pownce widget using their API which provides JSON data. I completed a Technorati widget for searching blogs. I figured out how to convert YouTube videos for the Pocket … Continue reading
Amazon Mashups, Expression Web VBA, JSON Viewer
Here is a list of what I’ve been doing for the last two weeks:1. Started working with the Amazon web services API. I added a web page to my help collection Notes which gets my programming books wish list from … Continue reading
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Reinstalling Visual Studio 2005
Tonight I am reinstalling Visual Studio 2005. It takes about 4 hours to install so this will waste my entire evening. I have been having problems running Visual Studio 2005. The Windows Installer msiexec.exe process has been randomly starting up … Continue reading
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SubVersion
I’ve been reading many other programmer blogs to get a sense of what I need to know to remain marketable. When you work alone or on a small team you experience professional social isolation and don’t learn about the best … Continue reading
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JSON Web Services
I’ve recently learned that it is possible to create a web service which returns JavaScript Object Notation JSON rather than XML. ASP.NET 2.0 allows you to give a web service a ScriptService attribute which “AJAX enables” the Web Service and … Continue reading
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Book Review: Microsoft AJAX Library Essentials
Blogging on the Microsoft Community web site http://weblogs.asp.net has proven to be more rewarding than blogging on my own. I get more feedback from other developers. There have also been other benefits. For example, I was sent a free book … Continue reading
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Photoshop And VB.NET Window Services
Last night I learned how to create Layer Masks, Vector Masks, and Clipping Masks in Photoshop. I had to work through various tutorials and take some notes on everything that I had to figure out. For example, you cannot create … Continue reading
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Cutting Down On Research And Studying
I’ve decided to cut down on the amount of new technology research and studying I’m doing. It is getting to be too time-consuming and scattered. I need to focus more on doing billable work. In particular, I am not going … Continue reading
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ASP.NET 3.5 Released
I’ll blog about this here because everyone on the http://weblogs.asp.net/ site has already announced it. Microsoft has released the .NET Framework 3.5 which includes the new version of ASP.NET, known as ASP.NET 3.5. Visual Studio 2008 has also been released … Continue reading
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Widescreen Monitor
Tonight I bought a HP w2207 Widescreen Flat-Panel TFT-LCD Monitor. I am really thrilled with it. It is as big as a TV set! I have it hooked up to my dual-monitor video card so now I have a dual … Continue reading
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Web Site Design
One of my immediate goals is to learn how to be a better web site designer so I can stop making excuses when a client seems to be more interested in a fancy web site design rather than the web … Continue reading
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AJAX Control Toolkit, IT Toolbox, Flash Content
Yesterday I turned off JavaScript in my browser and saw what my web site will look like without JavaScript. You won’t see the Flash header without JavaScript and you will not be able to navigate to any of the web … Continue reading
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Williamsport Media Developer – Site Redesign Is Finished
This afternoon I finally finished my web site redesign and published the changes. I changed the name of the site from Williamsport Web Developer to Williamsport Media Developer because I wanted to emphasize my interest in new media. I did … Continue reading
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Microsoft Expression Blend
I looked at the Microsoft Expression Blend web site today to see if it was anything that I would be interested in. Expression Blend appears to have some of the same features as Adobe After Effects with keyframe animation, support … Continue reading
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Blogging For Microsoft
Microsoft has given me a blog at http://weblogs.asp.net/rrobbins/, their community web site for ASP.NET developers. I’m excited by this because I do most of my work using ASP.NET and I have a lot of content in my technology notes which … Continue reading
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