Author Archives: Robert S. Robbins

Adobe After Effects™ 6.0 ACE Exam 9A0-039

Posted on 7/28/2007 by Robert S. Robbins

I bought a practice exam for the Adobe After Effects™ 6.0 ACE Exam 9A0-039. It was expensive but I could not find any braindumps for this exam and there are no study guides or books available. Most of the questions … Continue reading →

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Wireless Network Set Up Accomplished

Posted on 7/21/2007 by Robert S. Robbins

I have completed the set up of my wireless network using a Buffalo Broadband Router & Access Point with High Gain Antenna. It took less than half an hour to set up my wireless network. Now I can get my … Continue reading →

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Going Wireless

Posted on 7/19/2007 by Robert S. Robbins

I’m finally setting up a wireless network in my house. I’ve bought some wireless networking cards and I should get my wireless access point soon. I decided to go wireless because I have a new computer to run Windows Vista … Continue reading →

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WordPress Code Markup Test

Posted on 7/16/2007 by Robert S. Robbins

I have been frustrated with WordPress’s inability to accept my code in my blog postings. I either have to give up on including code in my blog or waste my time struggling with the formatting. Today I have installed the … Continue reading →

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Weekend Roundup – 3D Invigorator, YouTube For Dummies, Stickam Widget

Posted on 7/15/2007 by Robert S. Robbins

Today I finally got around to learning how to use the 3D Invigorator software I bought from Zaxwerks. I created some 3D titles and figured out how to rotate them in 3D space. I was extremely pleased with the result. … Continue reading →

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Web Parts Export, Import and User Controls

Posted on 7/14/2007 by Robert S. Robbins

I am still studying web parts. I’ve learned how to export and import web parts but I’m not sure how useful this is because you can’t share web parts with other sites. You can only export a web part that … Continue reading →

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Video Production And Programming

Posted on 7/12/2007 by Robert S. Robbins

I missed out on the big YouTube gathering on 07/07/2007 which appears to have been a lot of fun. I was made really sad by this because I could have meet a lot of my online friends that I’ve grown … Continue reading →

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Web Parts Properties, Verbs, And Connections

Posted on 7/10/2007 by Robert S. Robbins

Today I expanded my knowledge of Web Parts, which is my favorite addition to ASP.NET in ASP.NET 2.0. I learned how to create custom properties for my web parts and I added a property to my Newsvine web part so … Continue reading →

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SQL Server 2005 Annoyances

Posted on 7/9/2007 by Robert S. Robbins

One of the many annoying things about SQL Server 2005 is how it replaces SELECT ALL written as “SELECT * FROM”with a complete list of the column names. After testing a SQL statement in the SQL Pane to determine that … Continue reading →

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BABY/400 ODBC

Posted on 7/3/2007 by Robert S. Robbins

I have figured out how to use the BABY/400 ODBC (Open Database Connectivity) driver to query the physical files. I’m hoping to use this to populate my physical files with data because it is very tedious to do data entry … Continue reading →

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Yahoo! Widget For Stickam Online Presence

Posted on 7/2/2007 by Robert S. Robbins

Over the weekend I developed a custom Yahoo! Widget to show the online presence of a single Stickam friend. Yahoo! Widgets are little desktop applications based on the Konfabulator application platform that Yahoo acquired. Developing a Yahoo! Widget requires a … Continue reading →

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ASP.NET 2.0 – Control Adapters

Posted on 7/1/2007 by Robert S. Robbins

I recently did some research on control adapters, another new feature of ASP.NET 2.0 that I read about in the book “Essential ASP.NET 2.0” by Fritz Onion and Keith Brown. Control adapters allow you to change the rendering of web … Continue reading →

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Transaction Savepoints

Posted on 6/28/2007 by Robert S. Robbins

Today I learned how to roll back multiple database queries using transaction savepoints. This is useful when you have several related record inserts, updates, or deletes that should all succeed or all fail in order to maintain your data integrity. … Continue reading →

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Zaxwerks 3D Invigorator

Posted on 6/27/2007 by Robert S. Robbins

I bought the Zaxwerks 3D Invigorator plug-in for After Effects but I have not made a video using it yet. It allows you to convert 2D vector artwork into 3D titles or logos. It renders very slowly on my system. … Continue reading →

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Cross-Page Posting

Posted on 6/26/2007 by Robert S. Robbins

Today I added a help topic on Cross-Page Posting to my ASP.NET 2.0 notes. Cross-Page Posting allows a second ASPX page to get the form fields from a previous ASPX page when the form is submitted using the Post method. … Continue reading →

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Application Name In Connection String

Posted on 6/25/2007 by Robert S. Robbins

Every day I learn something new at work or while doing stuff at home. Today I learned how to add the Application Name parameter to a connection string so the application name will appear in the SQL Server 2005 Activity … Continue reading →

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RPG Programming

Posted on 6/24/2007 by Robert S. Robbins

I have finished reading another book on RPG, “RPG II And RPG III Structured Programming” by Nancy Stern, Robert A. Stern, Alden Sager, James Cooper and added a great deal of material to my notes. Now I am turning my … Continue reading →

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ASP.NET 2.0 Master Page Properties & Navigation Controls

Posted on 6/22/2007 by Robert S. Robbins

Today I created a new help topic on the Navigation Controls for ASP.NET 2.0. This is a topic that was not covered in the ASP.NET 2.0 For Dummies book. The navigation controls get their data from a XML sitemap but … Continue reading →

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Visual Studio Content Installer

Posted on 6/19/2007 by Robert S. Robbins

I recently created a custom VSI file which is a kind of ZIP file used to install Visual Studio content. A Visual Studio Content Installer can be used to distribute macros, addins, code snippets, toolbox controls, or templates. I created … Continue reading →

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Visual Studio 2005 Item Templates

Posted on 6/16/2007 by Robert S. Robbins

Yesterday I learned how to create custom Item Templates for Visual Studio 2005. An item template is used to add new items to a project like a starter class file. You can export any of your project files as an … Continue reading →

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