Monthly Archives: September 2007

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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