Slogans of Technology Companies

A slogan is a statement of such merit about a product or service that is worthy of continuous repetitive advertising; is worthwhile for the public to remember; and is phrased in such a way that the public is likely to remember it. It makes impact on customers about your brand name. It is an advertising tag-line or phrase that advertisers create to visually expresses the importance and benefits of their product.

 

Here is list of slogans with the company name which have their brand name in Technology market.

Company Name	Slogan
3M	Innovation
3PARdata Inc.	Serving Information. Simply.
Accenture	High Performance. Delivered.
Acorn Computers	No slogan
Adobe	Better by Adobe.
Affiliated Computer Services	People Making Technology Work
Agere Systems	How Communication Happens
Aluria Software	Security Made Simple
Amazon.com	… and You’re Done
Ameritech	In a World of Technology, People Make the Difference.
Apple Computer	Think different.
Apple Computer	The power to be your best.
Apple Computer	Think outside the box.
Astaro	Network Assurance
AT&T	Reach out and touch someone.
AT&T	The world’s networking company.
AT&T	Your World. Delivered
ATG Design Services	Circuit Design for the RF Impaired
ATI Technologies	Get In the Game
BAE Systems	Innovation for a Safer World
Ball Corporation	The Leader in Small Space and Rocket Systems
BellSouth	Listening, Answering
Blackhawk	Powering DSP Development
BMW	The Ultimate Driving Machine
Bose Corporation	Better Sound Through Research
BP Microsystems	Setting the Standard in Device Programming
Buy.com	The Internet Superstore
Cadence	How Big Can You Dream?
Cingular Wireless	Raising the Bar
Cirrus Logic	Leading the Digital Entertainment Revolution
Cisco Systems	Empowering the Internet generation.
Cisco Systems	This is the Power of the Network. Now.
CNET	The source for computing and technology.
Compaq (HP)	Inspiration Technology
Cypress Semiconductor	Driving the Communication Revolution
Datel (C&D Tech)	Innovation and Excellence
Dell Computer	Easy as Dell.
Dell Computer	Get More out of Now
D-Link	Building Networks for People
Dow Corning	We Help You Invent the Future
DuPont	The Miracles of Science
EM Research	The ultimate source for miniature frequency synthesizers
Emerson Electric Company	Consider It Solved
Ericsson	Taking You Forward
ExxonMobil	Taking on the world’s toughest energy challenges
Fiber-Span, LLC	RF On Fiber
Fujitsu	The Possibilities are Infinite
General Dynamics	Strength On Your Side
General Electric	Imagination at Work
GigaLane	Innovation and Excellence in RF & Microwave
Globe Telecom	Making great things possible
Hewlett-Packard	Invent
Hitachi	Inspire the Next
Honeywell	We are Honeywell
I.F. Engineering Corp	Your challenge is our progress
IBM	We Make IT Happen
IDT	Powering What’s Next
IFI	The Power of Choice
Infineon	Keep on Thinking
Infosys	Powered by Intellect Driven by Values
Intel	Intel Inside
Intersil	Technology at the Speed of Life
IRobot	Business Mechanisms to Accelerate Change
ITT	Engineered for Life
JRC	You Don’t Need Wires to Communicate
Keithley	A Greater Measure of Confidence
Kodak	A Virtual World of Live Pictures
Konica Minolta	The Essentials of Imaging
Linksys	At Linksys – We are making connectivity easier
Linx Technologies	Wireless Made Simple
Lockheed Martin	We Never Forget Who We’re Working For
Lucent Technologies	Creating value through true convergence.
MegaPhase	Our Customers Connect With Us™
Micrel	The Infinite Bandwidth Company
Micron	The Future of Memory
Microsoft	Your potential. Our passion.
Microsoft	Where do you want to go today?
Mitsubishi Semiconductor	Changes for the Better
Motorola	Hello. Moto
muRata	Innovator in Electronics
mWAVE Industries, LLC	Your Partner In Antenna Technology
MySQL	To Make Superior Data Management Available and Affordable for All
National Semiconductor	The Sight & Sound of Information
NEC Corporation	Empowered by Innovation
Nintendo	Born to play
Nokia	Connecting People
Nortel Networks	Business Without Boundaries
Novell	Software for the Open Enterprise
NVIDIA	The way it’s meant to be played
Olympus Corporation	Your Vision, Our Future
Optus1	Yes
Oracle	Information Driven:
Orbital Sciences Corporation	The Leader in Small Space and Rocket Systems
Panasonic	Ideas for Life
Peregrine Systems	Evolve Wisely
PerkinElmer	Precisely
Philips	Sense and Simplicity
Pioneer Rocketplane	Permitting Travel to Space, Travel in Space, and Travel Through Space
Plantronics	Sound Innovation
PMC-Sierra	Accelerating The Broadband Revolution
Pragma	Operate at Your Optimum
RCAT Systems	You push the limits. We measure it.
RF Bites	Helping RF Designers one Bite at a time
RF Cafe	Now that’s Progressive
RF Cafe	A Disruptive Web Presence
RF Cafe	Your Onramp to the Information Superhighway
RF Cafe	Specialty Materials That Make Our World
Rohde & Schwarz	Pushing Limits
Samsung Electronics	Imagine
Sprint Nextel Corporation	Yes you can
ST Microelectronics	More Intelligence Solutions
Sun Microsystems	The Network Is The Computer
Symbol Technologies	The Enterprise Mobility Company
Texas Instruments	Technology for Innovators
Thor Labs	Photonics in the Fast Lane
Toshiba	Committed to People, Committed to the Future.
Unisys	We Make It Happen
United Technologies Corporation	This is Momentum
Verizon Wireless	Can You Hear Me Now? Good.
vidaRF	Simple Solutions for Complex Connections
Vodafone	How Are You?
Vodafone	Make the Most of Now
Wyse	Global Leader in Thin Computing
Xerox	The Document Company
Xilinx	The Programmable Logic Company
XMA Corporation	When Performance Matters
Digital Global Information Systems	Our Focus - Your Growth!

 

 

Orchard CMS Learning stuff.

Recently I try to learn about the CMS which are developed in Microsoft technologies as there are lots of mature CMS available like joomla, Druple etc. These are based on the PHP and mostly hosted on apache(Linux based web server). Though I am working on .net stack so I decided to start with some open source CMS developed in ASP.net technology and I decided to start learning with Orchard.

What is Orchard:
Orchard is a free, open source, community-focused Content Management System built on the ASP.NET MVC platform.

Orchard is built on a modern architecture that puts extensibility up-front, as its number one concern. All components in Orchard can be replaced or extended. Content is built from easily composable building blocks. Modules extend the system in a very decoupled fashion, where a commenting module for example can as easily apply to pages, blog posts, photos or products. A rich UI composition system completes the picture and ensures that you can get the exact presentation that you need for your content.

Here are few learning resources that I want to share with others also:

• Orchard CMS: Up and Running - Ebook - 132 pages
• Orchard Fundamentals - Pluralsight video Training - 2h 57m -Beginner - Sep 2011
• Advanced Orchard - Pluralsight video Training - 4h 12m - Advanced - Apr 2012
• Orchard Documentation - Tutorial Videos (Orchard TV)
• Orchard Documentation
• Udemy Orchard Courses (currently 4 )
      Workflows in Orchard CMS
      Orchard CMS Theme Development Tutorial For Beginners
  Here two free courses for beginners:
  Orchard CMS Tutorial for Absolute Beginners
  Orchard CMS Tutorial : Recipes In Orchard CMS

Happy learning..

How to resolve “The 'DesignerPackage' package did not load correctly” issue??

It was the today morning I just start preparing to do my work and opened Visual Studio. Now what I found that there was lots popup showing the error for load fail of the designer packages respectively.

The error  was “The 'DesignerPackage' package did not load correctly” and I did following trick to solve this issue in Visual studio 2013. If you are using older version then look for 11.0 or 10.0 folder for this “ComponentModelCache” directory.

1. First open windows explorer and go to “C:\Users\<your users name>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0\ComponentModelCache”.
   
   
2. Delete all the files located in this folder after closing the visual studio.

After doing this start your visual studio and all errors went away.

How to iterate through TileView items in XtraGrid?

This is related to DevExpress question - How to loop through tiles in TileView, which help me to achieve the required functionality in the XtraGrid using the TileView. I require to implement the selection process for TileView similar to GridView in XtraGrid, but I require to iterate through all the TileView items. TileView actually use TileViewControl internally so it require to access under laying  tileview control items to access more information about the TileViewItems. See the below code snippet:

private void HandleTileItemSelection(TileViewItem tileViewItem)
{
    if ((ModifierKeys & Keys.Control) != Keys.Control)
    {
        Dictionary visibleTiles = ((tileView1.GetViewInfo() as ITileControl).ViewInfo as TileViewInfoCore).VisibleItems;
        int alternateCheckedItemsCount = 0;
        foreach (KeyValuePair item in visibleTiles)
        {
            if (item.Value != tileViewItem && item.Value.Checked)
            {
                alternateCheckedItemsCount++;
                item.Value.Checked = false;
                tileView1.SetRowCellValue(item.Value.RowHandle, "CheckedStatus", false);
            }
        }
    }        
}

RANDBETWEEN(m,n) in Sql Server?

Today I have to find random number between two numbers lots of the time in the stored procedures So I tried to create a function which return random numbers between two boundary numbers m and n. I tried to look for the solution and got below logic to implement the function.

Let m = 5 and n = 500 and method call would be RANDBETWEEN(5, 500). Then logic to find the random number would be as below:

• Use RAND() (which returns a value between 0 and 1 (exclusive).
• multiply by 298 (since you want a dynamic range of [300-3] = 297 + 1)
• add 3 to Offset
• and cast to INT?

Usage:

SELECT CAST(RAND() * 298 + 3 AS INT)

A Stored Procedure can be written like this if it supposed to be reuse in code more often:

CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[RANDBETWEEN]
@LowerBound int = 0 ,
@UpperBound int = 1 , 
@ret int OUT
AS
    BEGIN
    SET NOCOUNT ON;
    SELECT @ret = (CAST((RAND() * (@UpperBound - @LowerBound)) + @LowerBound AS INT));
RETURN ;
END;

Call can be made like this:

DECLARE @tmp INT;
EXECUTE [dbo].[RANDBETWEEN] 0,10, @ret=@tmp OUT ;
SELECT @tmp

To create a function I found that I have to create a View that make random method call and then function will do remaining operation to get the random number.

CREATE VIEW Get_RAND
AS
SELECT RAND() AS RANDNumber
GO

Then you can create a function like this (accessing the view with the SELECT RandomNumber... ) :

CREATE FUNCTION RANDBETWEEN(@LowerBound INT, @UpperBound INT)
RETURNS INT
AS
BEGIN
    DECLARE @TMP FLOAT;
    SELECT @TMP = (SELECT RandomNumber FROM Get_RAND);
    RETURN CAST(@TMP* (@UpperBound - @LowerBound) + @LowerBound AS INT);
END
GO

Then this function can be called as below:

SELECT [dbo].[RANDBETWEEN](1,10)

WCF or ASP.NET Web APIs for web services??

This is a interesting question for everyone and especially for me too. Whenever I got chance to dig for these technologies to create service, I found myself little confuse that which one should I choose.
It may be the “WCF vs ASP.NET Web API” contest for choosing in particular scenario and requirement of client. I got lots of reference and comparison related these two things which are discussed below:
The ASP.NET Web API is a continuation of the previous WCF Web API project (Conceptual changes are described on Codeplex WCF documentation - How to Migrate from WCF Web API to ASP.NET Web API).
Here is comparison from MSDN - WCF and ASP.NET Web API:

ASP.net Web API is all about HTTP and REST based GET,POST,PUT,DELETE with well know ASP.net MVC style of programming and JSON returnable; web API is for all the light weight process and pure HTTP based components. For one to go ahead with WCF even for simple or simplest single web service it will bring all the extra baggage. For light weight simple service for ajax or dynamic calls always WebApi just solves the need. This neatly complements or helps in parallel to the ASP.net MVC.
WCF was originally created to enable SOAP-based services. For simpler RESTful or RPCish services (think clients like jQuery) ASP.NET Web API should be good choice.
In the scenarios listed below you should go for WCF:

1. If you need to send data on protocols like TCP, MSMQ or MIME
2. If the consuming client just knows how to consume SOAP messages

We can expose REST endpoints on WCF services as well.
WEB API is a framework for developing RESTful/HTTP services.
There are so many clients that do not understand SOAP like Browsers, HTML5, in those cases WEB APIs are a good choice.Although WCF provides some support for writing REST-style services, the support for REST in ASP.NET Web API is more complete and all future REST feature improvements will be made in ASP.NET Web API.
Here are few nice articles and reference:
WCF or ASP.NET Web APIs? My two cents on the subject
Scott Hanselman’s - Podcast 264 - This is not your father's WCF - All about the WebAPI with Glenn Block

What is the correct way to handle exceptions and UnobservedTaskException in the TPL?

Information from: A Task's exception(s) were not observed either by Waiting on the Task or accessing its Exception property. As a result, the unobserved exception was

If you create a Task, and you don't ever call task.Wait() or try to retrieve the result of a Task<T>, when the task is collected by the garbage collector, it will tear down your application during finalization. For details, see MSDN's page on Exception Handling in the TPL.

The best option here is to "handle" the exception. This can be done via a continuation - you can attach a continuation to the task, and log/swallow/etc the exception that occurs. This provides a clean way to log task exceptions, and can be written as a simple extension method, ie:

public static void LogExceptions(this Task task)
{
    task.ContinueWith( t =>
    {
         var aggException = t.Exception.Flatten();
         foreach(var exception in aggException.InnerExceptions)
             LogException(exception);
    }, 
    TaskContinuationOptions.OnlyOnFaulted);
}

With the above, you can prevent any task from tearing down the app, and logging it, via:

Task.Factory.StartNew( () => 
   { 
       // Do your work...
   }).LogExceptions();

Alternatively, you can subscribe to the TaskScheduler.UnobservedTaskException and handle it there.

Continuation of the task could determine the status of the parent task whether it get faulted or completed to success. A continuation can find out if an exception was thrown by the antecedent Task by the antecedent task's exception property. The following code snippet will print the results of a NullReferenceException to the console.

Task task1 = Task.Factory.StartNew (() => { throw null; });
Task task2 = task1.ContinueWith (ant => Console.Write(ant.Exception());

If task1 throws an exception and this exception is not captured/queried by the continuation then it is considered unhandled and the application get halted. With continuations it is enough to establish the result of the task via the Status property.

asyncTask.ContinueWith(task =>
{
    // Check task status.
    switch (task.Status)
    {
        // Handle any exceptions to prevent UnobservedTaskException.             
        case TaskStatus.RanToCompletion:
            if (asyncTask.Result)
            {
                // Do stuff...
            }
            break;
        case TaskStatus.Faulted:
            if (task.Exception != null)
                mainForm.progressRightLabelText = task.Exception.InnerException.Message;
            else
                mainForm.progressRightLabelText = "Operation failed!";
        default:
            break;
    }
}

If you don't use continuations you either have to wait on the task in a try/catch block or query a task's Result in a try/catch block. See below code snippet:

int x = 0;
Task<int> task = Task.Factory.StartNew (() => 7 / x);
try
{
    task.Wait();
    // OR.
    int result = task.Result;
}
catch (AggregateException aggEx)
{
    Console.WriteLine(aggEx.InnerException.Message);
}