February 2007 - Posts

• I never imagined the day

  Tivo always suggests some music shows from my girlfriend's viewing habits. I've normally just let them fall off, but recently I've been watching more and more MTV. I'm doing research for an application that targets the MTV market using... Posted Feb 26 2007, 10:03 AM by Bill Robertson's Blog Filed under: Rant, Technology

• MS Ajax adds String.format method to Javascript

  Came across this little gem today. I've always hated string concatenation in javascript. I know there are performance issues related to string building in javascript, but that was the least of my concern. It is just too damn hard to read and maintain... Posted Feb 23 2007, 06:35 PM by Bill Robertson's Blog

• Firefox plug in request

  I use IE for 95% of my web browsing. It is mostly out of habit, and it seems to open faster when I just want to look something quickly up on the web. However, when developing I spend half my time in FireFox and IE. I routinely use Fiddler to check out... Posted Feb 20 2007, 03:32 PM by Bill Robertson's Blog Filed under: Rant

• My way to assign "for" attribute on labels

  I've been carrying this control around for a while. Mostly because I built this on an early version of MS Ajax, back when it was still called Atlas. I've finally updated it to MS Ajax RTM. My friend Neils is an avid accessibility guy. He was frustrated... Posted Feb 16 2007, 12:28 PM by Bill Robertson's Blog Filed under: .NET, Atlas, ASP.NET

• Please fix Visual Studio F1 key press

  I just spent 2 minutes of my life waiting for my computer to respond and started this blog post before I could go back to work. I hit F2 trying to rename a file in my solution, but studio quit responding. I started getting more and more frustrated that... Posted Feb 11 2007, 05:02 AM by Bill Robertson's Blog Filed under: Rant, Technology, .NET, Microsoft

• How to add automatically add namespaces to .aspx pages.

  Like many of my blog posts, this one is because I solved a frustration today and wanted to share. I have always been a code-behind type guy. I liked having my code seperate from my presentation... whatever. With Studio 2005, there was the 'magical'... Posted Feb 10 2007, 06:47 AM by Bill Robertson's Blog Filed under: .NET, ASP.NET