Author Archives: Robert S. Robbins

MySQL Administration

Posted on 4/11/2006 by Robert S. Robbins

Last night I had to play around with some C and Visual C#.NET console applications for a job interview tomorrow. This morning I documented some MySQL administration tasks because I installed phpList on the Car Accessories web site http://www.caraccessories.com and … Continue reading →

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Wrote First Useful Program In Eiffel

Posted on 4/10/2006 by Robert S. Robbins

Yesterday I wrote my first useful program in Eiffel! It is a file processing utility program that examines web pages in a directory and generates a report on which web pages are missing a style sheet. I’ve been adding a … Continue reading →

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Developing Technical Expertise in Eiffel

Posted on 4/9/2006 by Robert S. Robbins

I continue to make excellent progress in learning the Eiffel programming language. However I am running into a lot of minor technical gotchas that require good problem solving skills in order to proceed. I am delighted that Eiffel is so … Continue reading →

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Eiffel Progress

Posted on 4/7/2006 by Robert S. Robbins

I worked all night on learning Eiffel. I am making excellent progress. So far I have learned how to do some simple file processing. I’ve also learned a bit of the language syntax. Ordinarily I would have quickly given up … Continue reading →

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Eiffle Studio 5.7 and Eiffle For ASP.NET

Posted on 4/6/2006 by Robert S. Robbins

Last night I downloaded and installed Eiffle Studio 5.7 and wrote my first Hello World program in Eiffle. After careful consideration, I have decided to concentrate on developing my expertise using this programming language. It is a losing proposition to … Continue reading →

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Web Application Development With PHP 4.0

Posted on 4/5/2006 by Robert S. Robbins

Today I received the book Web Application Development With PHP 4.0 by Tobias Ratschiller and Till Gerken. This book is slightly out of date but then my web site only supports PHP Version 4.1.2 so there is no reason to … Continue reading →

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Java Server Pages

Posted on 4/4/2006 by Robert S. Robbins

Today I received a book Pure JSP: Java Server Pages by James Goodwill which should help me to learn Java using the same concepts that I currently use in my ASP work with Visual Basic scripting.

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More ASP.NET 2.0 Exploration

Posted on 4/3/2006 by Robert S. Robbins

It looks like the master page absolutely needs a vb code behind file. I was trying to run some simple examples without using Visual Studio. My installation of Visual Studio 2005 only had some SQL Server 2005 project types so … Continue reading →

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ASP.NET 2.0

Posted on 4/1/2006 by Robert S. Robbins

Today I began to study ASP.NET 2.0 which I already have installed on my system. I figured out how to create an ASP.NET 2.0 web application using the new IIS configuration tool which is a new ASP.NET tab in the … Continue reading →

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ASP.NET Style Sheet Woes

Posted on 3/31/2006 by Robert S. Robbins

Today I discovered that ASP.NET does not generate HTML which will validate according to XHMTL style rules. I also had a lot of problems creating a style for the web control because the BorderWidth=”0″ property creates an inline style which … Continue reading →

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Unrealistic Business Expectations

Posted on 3/30/2006 by Robert S. Robbins

I’ve been looking for contract work in custom web development but the search is not going very well due to ridiculous project proposals. There is such an enormous disconnect between project requirements and budget that it borders on the absurd. … Continue reading →

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StoreFront Order History

Posted on 3/27/2006 by Robert S. Robbins

Tonight I worked on creating customer account and order history pages for StoreFront 5.0 based on this additional feature that was added to StoreFront 6.0. This is a simple matter of writing ASP scripts that do the same thing the … Continue reading →

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MySQL Administration Using PHP

Posted on 3/26/2006 by Robert S. Robbins

Tonight I wrote the PHP scripts for MySQL database administration. I created the forms, SQL statements, and scripts for adding records, editing records, and deleting records. Next I plan to write a script for viewing records that will allow me … Continue reading →

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Old Technology Books

Posted on 3/25/2006 by Robert S. Robbins

Last night I listed my old technology books on Yahoo Auctions and Half.com. I have lots of books on Windows NT, Visual J++, MS-DOS, and Windows 3.1 which are very difficult to sell. Yahoo Auctions allows you to quickly list … Continue reading →

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RSS Feeds

Posted on 3/24/2006 by Robert S. Robbins

Lst night I researched RSS Feeds. I discovered that Firefox and Opera browsers will display a little icon next to your web address if you include a line of code in your home page’s <head> tag: <link type="application/rss+xml" rel="alternate" title="Williamsport … Continue reading →

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WordPress Scheduled Task Script

Posted on 3/23/2006 by Robert S. Robbins

Last night I wrote a VBScript to load the web page which forces WordPress to check its mailbox for articles to be posted. Then I created a scheduled task to run the VBScript every hour. On a linux server this … Continue reading →

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Ultra-Edit 12

Posted on 3/22/2006 by Robert S. Robbins

Today I upgraded to Ultra-Edit 12. Ultra-Edit is my favorite text editor. It features line numbering, find and replace using regular expressions, syntax highlighting, nine additional clipboards, word count, spell checking, hex editor, trailing space trim, and formatting to uppercase, … Continue reading →

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Installed WordPress On Windows 2003 Server

Posted on 3/21/2006 by Robert S. Robbins

Last night I was up until 2:00 AM installing WordPress on a Windows 2003 Server for http://www.caraccessories.com/wordpress. I ran into numerous technical problems because I tried to install the lastest versions of PHP and MySQL. Eventually I had to install … Continue reading →

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FrontPage Regular Expressions

Posted on 3/20/2006 by Robert S. Robbins

FrontPage 2003 added regular expressions to its Find and Replace tool. This is a big improvement and allows for more powerful code editing. Unfortunately, it requires a lot of trial and error to figure out its regular expression syntax which … Continue reading →

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Web Application Design

Posted on 3/19/2006 by Robert S. Robbins

Yesterday I experimented with a fancier web application design. Most of my web applications have no design at all because I focus on the functionality. I figure it is the graphics designer job to create the design. Unfortunately, he never … Continue reading →

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