Author Archives: Robert S. Robbins

Yahoo Widget For Stickam & ASP.NET Community Blogging

Posted on 10/2/2007 by Robert S. Robbins

Today I discovered that my Yahoo Widget for Stickam has been approved and is now available for download from the Yahoo Widget Gallery. I did not receive any notice that it was approved. Now I just need to get my … Continue reading →

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North Coast Gathering – YouTube Meet Up

Posted on 10/1/2007 by Robert S. Robbins

Over the weekend I attended the North Coast Gathering for vloggers in Sandusky Ohio where I met the popular vloggers Zen Archer and Tara916. Fortunately I did not get lost during the 6 hour drive and I did not get … Continue reading →

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Semantically Rich Markup

Posted on 9/26/2007 by Robert S. Robbins

While reading my book on CSS today I came across the best explanation I’ve seen on how to structure your HTML code for the search engines. Unfortunately there is a lot of confusion about how to optimize HTML code for … Continue reading →

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North Coast Gathering – YouTube Meet Up

Posted on 9/25/2007 by Robert S. Robbins

The bus trip to Washington DC for Saturday, September 29th has been canceled. There was not enough interest. So instead I plan on going to the North Coast Gathering for YouTube, Stickam, and LiveVideo vloggers which will be held on … Continue reading →

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Web Parts, YAML, Washington DC

Posted on 9/21/2007 by Robert S. Robbins

This blog post is going to wrap up a week of activity that didn’t give me time to blog. This week I worked on an important web part that creates a parent / child relationship between two database tables. I … Continue reading →

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How To Reference A CSS Class With JavaScript

Posted on 9/19/2007 by Robert S. Robbins

Some of the CSS topics in my help file were not displaying properly due to a problem with background image urls in CSS. This problem only appears in the Help 2.0 version of help collections for the Microsoft Document Explorer. … Continue reading →

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Eval For VB.NET

Posted on 9/14/2007 by Robert S. Robbins

Today I was converting some ASP code to ASP.NET when I ran into a problem with the eval statement which is not supported in the NET Framework. Fortunately, I found a clever solution on the Internet at http://odetocode.com/Articles/80.aspx. You can … Continue reading →

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NPlot Bar Charts

Posted on 9/12/2007 by Robert S. Robbins

There is a free charting component for ASP.NET by the name of NPlot but it is poorly documented and I could not figure out how to create a simple bar chart. I contacted one of the developers and he sent … Continue reading →

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1994 Pontiac Grand Prix SE

Posted on 9/9/2007 by Robert S. Robbins

Yesterday I bought a new used car, a 1994 Pontiac Grand Prix SE. It is the same color, red, and mileage 157,000 as my last car so in that respect it is not much of an improvement. However it has … Continue reading →

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The Value Of Creativity

Posted on 9/6/2007 by Robert S. Robbins

This blog post is going to be different from my usual blog posts because I will address the value of creativity. Programmers have to be creative and logical but they are usually given more credit for being logical than creative. … Continue reading →

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ISBN Look Up Application Development

Posted on 9/2/2007 by Robert S. Robbins

I recently found an interesting social networking web site where you can list all the books you’ve read so you can connect with other people based on your reading habits. This is very appealing to me because I have read … Continue reading →

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Labor Day Weekend

Posted on 9/1/2007 by Robert S. Robbins

I plan to get a lot of work done over the Labor Day weekend. Last night I finished working through a lengthy chapter on Lighting in 3D with After Effects. That was the last chapter I needed to complete my … Continue reading →

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YouCruise – YouTube Carnival Cruise

Posted on 8/30/2007 by Robert S. Robbins

I have booked a cabin on the YouCruise, a Carnival cruise for YouTube vloggers. The YouCruise was the idea of YouTube rant comic, Pipistrello. You can download a Word file with all the details at: YouCruise.doc. I frequently watch the … Continue reading →

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Becoming A Better Programmer

Posted on 8/27/2007 by Robert S. Robbins

I feel that I have become a much better programmer this year. I have learned a lot more about Visual Studio and now use all of its features. This includes using bookmarks to find my way back to lines of … Continue reading →

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C# Data Structures

Posted on 8/25/2007 by Robert S. Robbins

I added a topic to my notes on C# data structures. I think I had a class in college on data structures. We used Pascal for that class. I still have my Pascal book and Pascal compilers but there is … Continue reading →

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Social Isolation And Online Communities

Posted on 8/22/2007 by Robert S. Robbins

I’m reading David Silver‘s book Smart Start-Ups which is about building online communities because I am very active in the YouTube community. There are actually many videos and discussions about online community. Some people insist there is no community and … Continue reading →

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IIS 7.0, PHP, Perl, Silverlight

Posted on 8/19/2007 by Robert S. Robbins

I’ve been meaning to cut back on the amount of new technology I’m studying because you can’t learn everything. You will have no time for your regular life if you try to keep up with changing technology. However, I have … Continue reading →

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Visual Studio As An HTML Editor

Posted on 8/14/2007 by Robert S. Robbins

At work I am forced to use Visual Studio 2005 as an HTML editor instead of my precious FrontPage 2003. Visual Studio 2005 is better than Visual Studio 2003 for editing a web page but I still have the following … Continue reading →

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JavaScript Object Notation

Posted on 8/13/2007 by Robert S. Robbins

JavaScript Object Notation is an alternative data format to XML for AJAX. To use JSON you need the json.js script at www.json.org. It contains the JavaScript functions to convert arrays to JSON strings. The JSON strings are parsed by JavaScript … Continue reading →

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TableAdapters And Transactions

Posted on 7/29/2007 by Robert S. Robbins

I’ve been doing some more work with TableAdapters and transactions. I’ve learned how to extend the TableAdapter class to include support for handling transactions. Being able to extend a class to override a method or provide new methods is an … Continue reading →

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