Bill Robertson

Thoughtiest Decision of my Life

Bill Robertson&#39;s Blog — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 20:39:05 GMT

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...(read more)

American Airlines Business Practices

Bill Robertson's Blog — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 23:05:00 GMT

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...(read more)

How to delay all outgoing email in Outlook

Bill Robertson's Blog — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:22:00 GMT

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)

Single Blog Mode Configuration for CommunityServer

Bill Robertson's Blog — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:09:00 GMT

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)

Community Server and its "Poison" to McAfee

Bill Robertson's Blog — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 05:50:00 GMT

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)

More Blogging

Bill Robertson's Blog — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 14:53:57 GMT

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)

March North Dallas User Group

Bill Robertson's Blog — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 21:53:29 GMT

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)

I never imagined the day

Bill Robertson's Blog — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:03:00 GMT

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)

MS Ajax adds String.format method to Javascript

Bill Robertson's Blog — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 00:35:06 GMT

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)

Firefox plug in request

Bill Robertson's Blog — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:32:30 GMT

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)

My way to assign "for" attribute on labels

Bill Robertson's Blog — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 18:28:00 GMT

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)

Please fix Visual Studio F1 key press

Bill Robertson's Blog — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 11:02:00 GMT

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)

How to add automatically add namespaces to .aspx pages.

Bill Robertson's Blog — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 12:47:00 GMT

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)

New Domain Name

Bill Robertson's Blog — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 00:38:06 GMT

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)

ASP.NET Ajax 1.0 Released

Bill Robertson's Blog — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 20:06:54 GMT

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