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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
Application Name In Connection String
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
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
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
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
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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Utility To Troubleshoot SQL INSERT Statements
Today I wrote a Windows application in C# to help me troubleshoot SQL INSERT statements which do not have an equal number of columns and values. Unfortunately, SQL Server does not provide very informative error messages. It can be difficult … Continue reading
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Things That Are Consuming My Time
I’ve been very busy the past few months and can’t seem to make much progress in getting things done to reduce my work load. Therefore a blog is in order to explain why. First, the USPS changed their shipping rates … Continue reading
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Web Service Security
Most web service tutorials only show you how to return a simple string value and they don’t address security at all. All of the web services you create based on the tutorials will allow anonymous access over the Internet. Anonymous … Continue reading
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ASP.NET 2.0 Health Monitoring
In addition to trace listeners, ASP.NET 2.0 has added a health monitoring system to log web events for a web application. Health Monitoring is similar to trace listeners with the additional option of logging the events to a SQL Server … Continue reading
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log4net With ASP.NET 1.1
log4net provides the same sort of debug and trace logging capabilities as the trace listeners in ASP.NET 2.0 but it can be used in ASP.NET 1.1. Therefore if you like trace listeners in ASP.NET 2.0 but have some ASP.NET 1.1 … Continue reading
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ASP.NET 2.0 Trace Listeners
I have been spending a lot of time exploring Visual Studio’s debugging options because I deal with a lot of large projects and web applications that require me to search through thousands of lines of code. Web applications are especially … Continue reading
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dot.bomb: My Days and Nights at an Internet Goliath
I’ve been too busy to blog much lately. This blog gets over 100 spam comments a day and I don’t have time to read them all to find legitimate comments. If you want to leave a legitimate comment please send … Continue reading
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Integrating Custom Help Into Visual Studio
I have figured out how to convert my Notes.chm HTML Help file into the new Help 2.0 format and how to add it to the The Visual Studio .NET Combined Help Collection. First you need to download the Visual Studio … Continue reading
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I Have A New Job
This blog post is for my clients who may be wondering what I’m doing. I was recently hired by a local company for what may turn out to be a full time job. I needed to find a full time … Continue reading
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Expertise Greed
I am quite greedy for expertise. I am always looking to increase my knowledge and improve upon my skills. It is surprising how rarely career advice mentions the importance of gaining expertise. Maybe they just assume you have the expertise … Continue reading
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Netvibe’s Universal Widget API
Netvibes has developed an Universal Widget API which can be used to create widgets that work on multiple platforms. Currently a widget using their API will work on Google IG or the Netvibes mashup site. You can find the documentation … Continue reading
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ASP.NET Mastery – Expanding My ASP.NET Expertise
It can take a long time to learn a programming language. After the initial period of study during which you learn the language syntax, there is a long period of learning how to do various useful tasks. For a programming … Continue reading
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SQL Server Data Import – How To Preserve Primary Keys and Identity Fields
One of my biggest problems working with SQL Server databases is preserving my primary keys and identity fields when I try to copy tables from one database to another. The SQL Server Import and Export Wizard likes to remove primary … Continue reading
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Philadelphia YouTube Gathering
I’ve just watched Mr. Safety’s video about the next As One Gathering which will be held in Philadelphia on August 4th. I was in a Stickam chat with Nalts and Podcasting101 as they discussed their gathering in NYC on 7/7/07. … Continue reading
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Windows Server 2003 and Sharepoint
Today I got another 250 GB Western Digital hard drive that I bought on eBay. I have installed Windows Server 2003 on it in order to run Sharepoint. You cannot install Sharepoint on Windows XP. Sharepoint interests me because it … Continue reading
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