April 13th, 2010 — 4:37pm
Recently Burger King released a commercial that still has me in stitches. In the commercial “The King” steals the sausage McMuffin plans from McDonald’s Headquarters. At the end of the commercial, Burger King proclaims “It’s not that original but it’s super affordable!” This folks, is what creative advertising is all about. Instead of waiting for the public to express their displeasure about them “stealing” the idea, they are telling us “Look, it is what it is and it will save you money.” It doesn’t get much more honest than this. I don’t know about you but they have certainly made it alright with me. If you haven’t seen this commercial yet, please check it out below. Either way, let me know your thoughts. If nothing else, it is definitely good for some laughs!
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December 29th, 2009 — 11:57am
Simply paste in your VB.NET code below, and this free utility will automatically convert it to its equivalent in C#. http://www.developerfusion.com/tools/convert/vb-to-csharp/
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December 1st, 2009 — 4:03pm
Open House
Blackstone Media Network is growing and to celebrate we recently opened our doors to friends and clients to share our awesome new office space.
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September 20th, 2009 — 4:58pm
Put simply the ListView control is used to display a set of data in a structure defined by templates. There are many templates to choose from, and while some are required, many are optional. The templates needed will be determined by the goal of your design. It is best understood by defining what the templates are and how they work. This post will focus on the control’s attributes, and the templates. Further posts will go into more detail on binding data and using events.
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August 17th, 2009 — 2:14pm
Downloading the ASP.NET Ajax Control Toolkit:
The first step we need to take to use the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit, is to download the latest version of the toolkit. The version we will be downloading and installing will be version 3.0.30512 for ASP.NET 3.5 Service Pack 1. Download the most current release from CodePlex.com. (**The ASP.NET 2.0 compatible version of the toolkit can be found here.) CodePlex.com is Microsoft’s hosting site for open source projects. On the downloads page, you will find three different versions of the toolkit. Continue reading »
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