Entries from March 2009

The Large Benefits of Micro-Blogging

March 27th, 2009 by John Carroll, Sr. Developer · 1 Comment

As Craig mentioned in our January 2009 issue of The Source , one of the latest trends on the rise is the Micro-Blogging platform called Twitter .  Micro-Blogging is a much more real-time way to convey to your “followers” what you may be doing at a given moment.  This is much like setting your current [...]

Making WSE 3.0 work in Visual Studio 2008

March 26th, 2009 by Thevin Sattayatam, Developer · 1 Comment

WSE 3.0 or Web Service Enhancements 3.0 was phased out by WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) and hence Microsoft did not add support for WSE 3.0 in Visual Studio 2008. When creating proxy classes from the wsdl, any class that references WSE 3.0 won’t be generated. The problem is that the classes are generated by the [...]

The $25 Million Dollar Phone Number

March 20th, 2009 by Jen Dobkins, Content Writer · No Comments

How far will a company go to brand itself?
Successful branding relies on marketing that relates a ‘need’ for a company’s product or service to its target audiences.  Nutrition firm Natrient LLC has gone the route of purchasing the rights to a phone number that will most likely resonate with thousands, but does not directly relate [...]

How E-Book Readers Measure Up

March 4th, 2009 by Jen Dobkins, Content Writer · No Comments

As an avid reader, my shelves are full of books, most of them read, some unread. Many regular staples in the print industry—magazines, newspapers—have gone online with positive results. The newest thing to hit plain old paperback books is the e-book reader. I remember reading about these devices a few years back, and they continue [...]