Twitter is now conducting trials with advertisers for placement of new ads in their “Trending Topics” section, rumored to sell for tens of thousands of dollars. Trending Topics, located on the Home page of Twitter, is an area that highlights real-time topics that are most chatted about within the social network. This new advertising [...]

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 [...]

Please be aware of spam coming from email accounts on the yahoo.com domain. In the past few days we have reports of our clients receiving spam as if someone’s address book have been hijacked. The return path in the message header is usually pointing to a yahoo email account. In some instances the spam messages [...]

On December 10, 2008 Microsoft published their Security Advisory (961051) stating that there is a vulnerability in Internet Explorer that could allow remote execution. This critical security hole would allow the following scenario to happen: a user visits a hacked site that serves the malicious javascript code that exploits the bug that handles XML within [...]

As you’ve probably gathered by now from reading some of the other postings here , we have a lot of iPhone addicts here at Rhythm.  So, when getting our new website together it only made sense that we would make sure that the customer experience of browsing the site would carry over to the iPhone [...]

If you’re a .NET developer and not familiar with SubSonic, you should take a look at http://subsonicproject.com/ to read up about this great open-source object relational mapping (ORM) tool. Of course, using a ORM tool isn’t the most efficient way to move data between your application and the database. But using it will greatly reduce your development time and the [...]

When you specify the ObjectDataSource to use the controller and you assign a DataObjectTypeName instead of scripting out all the parameters. The template doesn’t handle a single parameter that is of the subsonic model object type.
Add the following to the Controller Template file (C# example):
Right after the current insert statement:
///
/// Inserts a record, can be [...]