Honesty in Marketing

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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Utility for Converting VB.NET to C#

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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Blackstone Media – Open House

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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Asp.Net ListView Control

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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Downloading, Installing, and Using the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit

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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