Bill Robertson

Thoughtiest Decision of my Life

2007-08-19T20:39:05Z

I've been working at Telligent for the last year and a half; it is without question the single best employer I've ever worked for. [Or traded value with depending on your economic theory] August 14 was my last day of employment with Telligent. This post took a while to write because I've been reflecting on the changes brought to my life by Telligent. Increased Caloric Intake . At previous employers we would have lunch provided for us at the yearly or bi-yearly company outings, or if I...(read more)

American Airlines Business Practices

2007-08-09T23:05:00Z

I booked a flight for a trip to New York City and was completely floored by what was presented to me. I found a 9 hour American Airlines return flight from JFK to DFW. Nine hours?! What could possible be the cause of that? I pulled the details for the flight and saw there were two stops. Remember my goal is to return to Dallas. I had to read the chart below several times. I've highlighted the piece that had me completely confused. Let's play "What's wrong with this picture?"...(read more)

How to delay all outgoing email in Outlook

2007-07-06T12:22:00Z

I've been burnt many times on sending out an email that wasn't quite ready to go out. This could happen for a couple different reasons. I was really pissed off when I composed the email and wasn't thinking properly about it. I copied and pasted Read More......(read more)

Single Blog Mode Configuration for CommunityServer

2007-06-28T21:09:00Z

This site has been updated to CS 2007 sp3. In doing so I broke the old way I was charming CS into single blog mode. Single Blog Mode is when you have a blog on a CS site and you want it to take over the root. ie http://BillRob.com takes you to the default Read More......(read more)

Community Server and its "Poison" to McAfee

2007-06-09T05:50:00Z

I came home tonight to another automatic virus scan of my machine. Yes, it's McAfee, so there is problem one. Problem two is an issue that's being going on with me between Community Server and McAfee anti-virus software in general for nearly a Read More......(read more)

More Blogging

2007-06-04T14:53:57Z

I'm sure this won't be the last time I drop off blogging for a while. This hiatus is attributed to Jose . The Community Server team was packaging up CS 2007 and I wanted to play with Morpheus. Morpheus is the extension added to Community Server Read More......(read more)

March North Dallas User Group

2007-03-09T21:53:29Z

I've had it as a goal of mine for nearly two years and I finally was able to pull it off. It was a long arduous journey to get there, mostly out of confidence reasons, but I finally found a topic I was knowledgeable about and not everyone does. I've Read More......(read more)

I never imagined the day

2007-02-26T16:03:00Z

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 Read More......(read more)

MS Ajax adds String.format method to Javascript

2007-02-24T00:35:06Z

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 Read More......(read more)

Firefox plug in request

2007-02-20T21:32:30Z

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 Read More......(read more)

My way to assign "for" attribute on labels

2007-02-16T18:28:00Z

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 Read More......(read more)

Please fix Visual Studio F1 key press

2007-02-11T11:02:00Z

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 Read More......(read more)

How to add automatically add namespaces to .aspx pages.

2007-02-10T12:47:00Z

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' Read More......(read more)

New Domain Name

2007-01-27T00:38:06Z

I meant to post this a while back, but never got around to it. The previous domain I hosted my blog on was wfrobertson.com. I wanted to consolidate my online presence into one location. The namespace I've been using on my custom code is BillRob.* Read More......(read more)

ASP.NET Ajax 1.0 Released

2007-01-23T20:06:54Z

No more weekly updates to my asp.net ajax code base. Yippee! Download it V1.0 here . Read More......(read more)