Monthly Archives: January 2008

Pownce, Technorati, YouTube Pocket PC, and C#

Posted on 1/30/2008 by Robert S. Robbins

Here is a list of last week’s activities: I have finished my Pownce widget using their API which provides JSON data. I completed a Technorati widget for searching blogs. I figured out how to convert YouTube videos for the Pocket … Continue reading →

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Amazon Mashups, Expression Web VBA, JSON Viewer

Posted on 1/24/2008 by Robert S. Robbins

Here is a list of what I’ve been doing for the last two weeks:1. Started working with the Amazon web services API. I added a web page to my help collection Notes which gets my programming books wish list from … Continue reading →

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Reinstalling Visual Studio 2005

Posted on 1/14/2008 by Robert S. Robbins

Tonight I am reinstalling Visual Studio 2005. It takes about 4 hours to install so this will waste my entire evening. I have been having problems running Visual Studio 2005. The Windows Installer msiexec.exe process has been randomly starting up … Continue reading →

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SubVersion

Posted on 1/8/2008 by Robert S. Robbins

I’ve been reading many other programmer blogs to get a sense of what I need to know to remain marketable. When you work alone or on a small team you experience professional social isolation and don’t learn about the best … Continue reading →

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JSON Web Services

Posted on 1/4/2008 by Robert S. Robbins

I’ve recently learned that it is possible to create a web service which returns JavaScript Object Notation JSON rather than XML. ASP.NET 2.0 allows you to give a web service a ScriptService attribute which “AJAX enables” the Web Service and … Continue reading →

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